Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790
In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson''s father, although uneducated, possessed a "strong mind and sound judgement" and raised his family in the far western frontier of...
In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson''s father, although uneducated, possessed a "strong mind and sound judgement" and raised his family in the far western frontier of...
