The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790 - 9780812219012

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790Author(s): Thomas Jefferson, Paul Leicester Ford, Michael Zuckerman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812219012, 978-0812219012\nSynopsis\nIn 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to \""state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself.\"" His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled in the Virginia colony. Jefferson's father, although uneducated, possessed a \""strong mind and sound judgement\"" and raised his family in the far western frontier of the colony, an experience that contributed to his son's eventual staunch defense of individual and state rights.\n Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary, entered the law, and in 1775 was elected to represent Virginia at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, an event that propelled him to.