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Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was the father of US President Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826).〔http://www.whosyomama.com/gabroaddrick3/26301.htm〕 A surveyor and cartographer, his ''Fry-Jefferson Map'' of 1751 accurately depicted the Allegheny Mountains for the first time and showed the route of "The Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" — what would later come to be known as the Great Wagon Road. ==Childhood== Jefferson was born in what is now Chesterfield County, Virginia, son of the elder Thomas Jefferson and Mary Field, one of six children. He did not receive any formal education while young, but according to his son Thomas Jefferson, he nevertheless "read much and improved himself."
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