Betty Hemings
(????-1807)
Mother of Sally Hemings
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Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings (c.1735 – 1807) was an enslaved mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia. With her master, planter John Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings. These children were three-quarters white, and, following the condition of their mother, they were enslaved from birth; they were half-siblings to Wayles's daughter, Martha Jefferson. After Wayles died, the Hemings family and some 120 other slaves were inherited, along with 11,000 acres and £4,000 debt, as part of his estate by his daughter Martha and her husband Thomas Jefferson.
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| Born | Elizabeth HemingsPossibly Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia |
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1807 (aged )
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James Hemings 2nd child with John Wayles Male b. 1765 d. 1801 · Age: 35 (at death) · 1765-1801 · American slave
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Sarah Hemings 6th child with John Wayles Female b. 1773 d. 1835 · Age: 61 (at death) · 1773-1835 · Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773-1835)
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