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    Jefferson Pier, Jefferson Stone, or the Jefferson Pier Stone, (pronounced pie-er, like radials of a pie)[citation needed] in Washington, D.C., marks the...
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    from Nicholas King, Surveyor of the City to Thomas Jefferson, October 15, 1804 Survey of Jefferson Pier. 7696.8 feet – 370 feet + 60.6 feet = 7387.4 feet...
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  • The center of the Jefferson Memorial, completed on the meridian in 1943. The Jefferson Pier. In 1793 Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson surveyed and marked...
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  • Martha Skelton Jefferson (née Wayles; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson from 1772 until her death. She served as...
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    Coordinates of Jefferson Pier: 38°53′23.29463″N 77°2′11.56″W / 38.8898040639°N 77.0365444°W / 38.8898040639; -77.0365444 (Jefferson Pier) (1) Pfanz,...
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  • Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father...
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    Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and then edited by the Committee of Five, which consisted of Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger...
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    the continent were to be calculated." Instead, in 1804, the Jefferson Stone or Jefferson Pier was placed on the meridian of the White House due west of...
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    John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
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  • Sally Hemings (category People who were enslaved by Thomas Jefferson)
    African ancestry, who was owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of an enslaved woman...
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