Betty Hemings
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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| Full name at birth | Elizabeth Hemings
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| Claim to fame | Enslaved mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia. With her master, planter John Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings, owned by President Thomas Jefferson and mother of 6 of his children.
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| Place of birth | Possibly Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia
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| Date of death | 1807
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| Occupation | Slave, domestic servant
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