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unusual facts about Betty Hemings


Betty Hemings

In 1827 she was purchased and freed by Francis W. Eppes, whom she had cared for as a nurse when he was young, starting in 1802.


John Wayles

As part of the wedding settlement, her parents gave the new couple an African slave woman and her young mixed-race daughter Elizabeth or Betty Hemings.

Wayles is widely believed to have taken his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings as a concubine after being widowed the third time; he had six children with her, of whom the youngest was Sally Hemings.


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