Samuel Jefferson, II

Evidence needed to support Thomas Jefferson, Sr. as his son.

He was born a little before Oct. 11, 1607.

Children: Frances Jefferson, Richard Jefferson, Samuel Jefferson, Richard Jefferson, Joseph Jefferson, Mary Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Sr Siblings: Susan GUNSBY (born Jefferson), Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Jefferson

Siblings: Susan GUNSBY (born Jefferson), Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Jefferson

References

• “Jefferson’s Ancestry.” Monticello Foundation. < link > “ Another possible lineage has been traced to the Suffolk family of Jeaffresons who developed a wide range of commercial interests in the Leeward Islands during the seventeenth century. One candidate, Samuel Jeaffreson, born in 1607 at Pettistree, Suffolk, lived on St. Kitts and then Antigua, and had three sons, one of whom was named Thomas.[3] … The origins of Jefferson's ancestors might be uncertain, but there can be no doubt that within a couple of generations the family had risen from the humble rank of "middling planter" to the county elite, and within another to the very pinnacle of society. “
  • 3. Olivia Taylor, "The Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson," in Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson, ed. George Green Shackelford (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press for the Monticello Association, 1965), 27-38.