New DNA Test Finds No Jefferson Link
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A DNA test has again failed to link a descendant of Monticello slave Tom Woodson to Thomas Jefferson, according to a retired pathologist who performed the test in Charlottesville, Va. Woodson’s descendants claim he was the son of the third president and slave Sally Hemings. Dr. Eugene A. Foster conducted the DNA test on the Rev. Thomas Woodson of Dayton, Ohio, a descendant of Tom Woodson’s third son.
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