2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Issue of THE DAILY GAZETTE, Jamesport, Missouri, May 15, 1882, 4p. folio, with article on the “Death of Robert Jefferson, Probably an Illegitimate Son of the Author of the Declaration of Independence.” and states that he “was perhaps the best-known colored resident of Indianapolis” and goes on to quote him as saying “My mother was a housemaid, and had charge of the apartments Mr. Jefferson usually occupied. Her name was Millie Reddiford, and she was said to be a very pretty woman in her younger days, although a dark mulatto. I was born in March 1803, at the house of mother’s master. I can remember the homestead well, and have myself seen Thomas Jefferson. My mother and all her people always told me he was my father...my master often told me who my father was, and it was he who named me Robert Jefferson...” About VG.
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