Shadwell, a modest frame home built in the red-clay clearing, stood on the western fringes of settlement in the colony of Virginia. From its well-chosen site below the gap in the Southwest Mountains, the Blue Ridge could be seen in the distance. Closer by, heavily forested slopes proclaimed an unspoiled land and marked the seasons with splendorous displays. In 1735, peter Jefferson patented on thousand acres along the Rivanna River in the newly opened area that would become Albemarle County. He soon added another four hundred acres and moved his wife and two young daughters to Shadwell not long before his first son, Thomas, was born there on April 13, 1743.
-Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
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