Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born in April 13,1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. He was the third President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson learned how to read,to write,and do arithmetic. He learned about nature near his Virginia home. He ran and told someone about a bug he discovered. He had never seen moutains since when he was two years old. His dad died when he was 14. That made Thomas Jefferson very rich, he owned a lot of land and animals. He had slaves of his own.
When Thomas Jefferson was sixteen years old he went away because he went to the College of William and Mary in Willamsburg,Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and the govenor and some other two men made music together. After two years from college he really decided that he wanted to be a lawyer. Many people visited Thomas Jefferson or wrote to Thomas Jefferson. People liked Thomas Jefferson.
He was elected to the house of Burgesses. He decided he wanted to be a lawyer. Benjamin Franklin shared ideas with Thomas Jefferson and also signed the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson got married to Martha Wayles Skelton. They were married on January 1,1772. Thomas Jefferson took Martha to Monticello. Martha was smart and very pretty. Thomas Jefferson was married with Martha on New Year's Day. Martha had a baby girl in the fall. He had two little girls and the names were Martha and Mary.
He was very, very busy working. Every single day in the morning Thomas Jefferson woke up at five o'clock. Thomas Jefferson worked for five years.
It took only eightteen days for Thomas Jefferson to fill up the whole page for the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 Thomas Jefferson had to go to Philadelphia. Martha loved music so one night Thomas Jefferson and Martha were playing music together in Martha's house. Jefferson knew Americans had to fight. Thomas Jefferson sent warships to fight the pirates.Thomas J. had spent five years in France.
One of Thomas Jefferson's baby daughters died. In the year of 1778 Thomas Jeffersons wife had another baby and they called her Polly. On September 6,1782 it was the worst day of Thomas Jefferson's life because Thomas Jeffersons wife died that day at 11:45a.m..
When Martha died, Thomas Jefferson was heart broken and he was really, really sad. Thomas Jefferson had written the most famous papers in the whole wide world and it's called the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson worked really hard to change those laws. He became a lawyer in 1767 but he was a country lawyer. When Thomas Jefferson was twenty-five he decided he wanted to be a burgess.Thomas J. had many freinds up in the country of Shadwell.
Thomas Jefferson invented the storm windows,a chair that could turn,and a very special part for a plow, and many other special other things. Thomas Jefferson played the violin. Thomas Jefferson did not like big huge parties or he did not like fancy kinds of clothes.
In September, the Jefferson family was waiting for the ship to take all of them home. In February in the year of 1790 Polly's sister Pasty married a man named Thomas.
Soon Thomas Jefferson had to move to the state capital west to Richmond. In the year of 1779 Thomas Jefferson became a governor of Virginia. Virginia was a lucky state. Thomas Jefferson the governor sent soldiers to north to help the General Washington.
In March, Thomas Jefferson left home again to go to the capital. He went all over Europe, everywhere he went he looked for very new things to send home and he sent lots of things like plants and trees, animals, birds, two-hundred books to a young freind and his name was James Madison and Madison was in Virginia he was working to get to the delegates to pass the laws that Jefferson had written long, long, long before.
In March 4,1801 Thomas Jefferson setted out from his room in New City of Washington.He became a very good freind to everyone. Thomas Jefferson stayed at Monticello.Thomas Jefferson sent his wife and their own babies in a carriage. In 1782 Thomas Jefferson was really elected delegate again.
In April the year of 1804 Jeffersons baby Polly died because she was very,very sick while she was staying with her sister Pasty.
By 1809 he was ready to go back to Monticello.Thomas Jefferson became George Washington's first Secretary of the State.Thomas Jefferson was a really,really good person. He liked to ride horses that's why he has his own horse and sometimes he got to ride with his freinds.
He died July 4,1826. After he died an old book was found in his desk. He was at Monticello he lay in bed and he knew he was dying. It was fifty years after he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Ben Franklin was born in Massachusetts in 1706 in Boston on Milk Street. When he went to school when he was eight. He only went to school for 2 years. When he was 10 he worked at his dads candle shop.
Benjaman Franklin was a printer with his brother James. Benjaman was James apprentice. Ben Franklin made a newspaper signed Do good and tricked his brother James. Benjaman ran away when he was 17 and he was still a printer.
He invented lots of stuff. He invented a police department. He invented a fire department. He also invented a hospital. Benjaman also invented swimming paddles for his feet and his hands to swim fast. But he invented something better. He pulled himself across a pond with a kite and then he was really fast. That was a better idea. He invented a lightning rod and they put on houses and on hats.
Benjaman Franklin was 84 when he died. He died at 11: 00 on April 17. He was a great man. Ben Franklin was a good inventer for everyone and so great and old too. He died not so very quickly, 84 is not quick.
William Clark was one of the best explorers in the world. He was my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather! William Clark was on my dad's side of the family. My dad gets all the glory!
He was born in Virginia 1770. He lived on a plantation with his family. When he was 14 he moved to a new plantation. He was an officer in the army1792 and 1794 in the battle of the Fallen Timbers.
William Clark was a friend of Meriwether Lewis. They served as a co-leaders of Corps of Discovery. Lewis and Clark were very, very, very good friends. Thomas Jefferson sent them on an Expedition to discover what was west of the Mississippi River. They traveled from St. Loius Missouri to the west coast and back. The expedition took two years, four months and ten days.
When he went exploring he saw indians an they told stories about bears. They said it took ten people to take down a bear. Clark thought it was going to be easy to take care of the bears with guns, but he quickly changed his mind.
On their journey William Clark and his crew came to a river with lots and lots of waterfalls. When they had to get across it it was called the Great Falls portage (the carrying of goods over an obstacle). It was a very long trip. The next part of the expedition was to cross the Rocky Mountains.
William Clark's team was all white except for an indian girl who guided them. Her name was Sacagawia. She was originally a member of the Shoshone tribe, but she had been kidnapped by another indian tribe before she married one of the explorers who was part of the Corp.
When Lewis and Clark came across the Shoshone tribe it was extremely fortunate for them because Sacagawea was actually the sister of the Cheif of the Shishone. Sacagawia recognized the land as her home and the Shoshone greeted her with joy. The Shishone sold Lewis and Clark horses. William was glad they had the horses it made the trip much easier.
William Clark is my favorite great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather because he was an excellent , great , good, fantastic explorer. He said he saw lots and lots of wild animals. He also saw many insects and arthropods! He said he had a wild time!
He died in 1838 winning a reputation for exploring, legislating, protecting and negotiating Indian rights.
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