The DNA study did prove paternity of a Jefferson family member and corroborated the ample documentary and oral history evidence. Eugene Foster and published in the scientific journal Nature in November 1998. It was corroborated by the findings of the Y-chromosome haplotype DNA study conducted by Dr. It is now the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s view that the issue is a settled historical matter.Ī considerable body of evidence stretching from 1802 to 1873 (and beyond) describes Thomas Jefferson as the father of Sally Hemings’s children. The issue of Jefferson’s paternity has been the subject of controversy for at least two centuries, ranging from contemporary newspaper articles in 1802 (when Jefferson was President) to scholarly debate well into the 1990s.
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