Thomas+Jefferson

​ Thomas Jefferson ​was born on April 18,1743 at "Shandwell," Albearle County, Virginia. He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolf. He grew up on the fronteer and had the intrests of a normal fronteer boy hunting, fishing, riding, coming to know nature at first hand.He began studies at the age of five, four years later he took up Latin, Greek, and French. At the age of fourteen, when his father died, he entered the classical school of the Reverend James Maury, one of the best in the colonies.In 1760 he entered Willam and Mary College, located in Willamsburg the provincial capital. Jefferson was not premitted to the country life of a squire. As early as 1767 he had been chosen to be in the Virginia House of Burgesses (along with Patick Henry).(World book) Thomas jefferson very much wanted the 13 colonies to become a nation. He was a amazeing writer and he wrote letters to different people asking to help give the colonies freedom. He wrote ALOT of letters totaling up to 50,000 letters during his lifetime.

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