randolph was known at monticello as i'll go randolph. number two, the misleading bna result would be excluded any real trial. because it did not come from thomas jefferson. the dna was taken from descendents of his paternal uncle, feel jefferson. but even assuming that dna was admitted into a real trial, the results are gross distortions at best, and utterly misleading at worst. they matched a male jefferson, not thomas jefferson. randolph chester o jefferson hae subs. thomas jefferson had all female children, except for an infant who died within two weeks. the dna match was to a male child. the dna does not exclude or rule out either one or both of the carr brothers brothers, except as eston. peter carr in fact admitted his paternity to jefferson's grandson, jeff randolph. finally, at least eight other jefferson males in and around monticello are candidates for eston hemmings. number three, the virulent rumor was first started by the unscrupulous candle mold journalist james callender, who burned for political revenge against jefferson.

and jefferson was like monticello, the climate is wonderful and they go back and forth and eventually he decides to live in rural pennsylvania which is an odd choice. and there was a utopian societies was going to build in pennsylvania did did not pan out. but he did spend a lifetime in philadelphia and initially was very close to adams, but he and adams had a little falling out and then he got close to jefferson, had a wonderful correspondence with jefferson and when adams got elected president while jefferson was vice president when the rift develops between adams and jefferson over a number of things but largely over france, priestley decides to pretty much through his lot in with jefferson and he starts writing having come to america to come stay out of trouble he wasn't quite able to do that so he starts writing some pamphlets kind of fan support of jefferson and more explicitly very critical lot adams and he had a colleague named thomas cooper who grew even more vitriolic attacks on adams. and so, when the alien and sedition acts are passed, thomas cooper is actually arrested as

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