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JEFFERSON'S YOUTH AND CHILDHOOD
> will you send me information about thomas jefferson about his child hood There is not too much information about Jefferson's childhood. You can find some at the Life of Jefferson website: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1683/lj01.htm You might find some from other online biographies. See the links page at Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/ Other than that, you will need to go to a printed book, such as the biography by Dumas Malone, or by Willard Sterne Randall.
Jefferson had two older sisters. His earliest memory was the family moving when he was age three. He was put on a pillow and carried on horseback by a slave. His father died when TJ was in his early teens. His father was careful to see that his oldest son had a good education. Jefferson was a very good student and had read all his father's books at an early age.