Lego

From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia

Lego was one of Thomas Jefferson’s quarter farms. Located near Shadwell, in Albemarle County, Virginia, Jefferson purchased Lego from Thomas Garth.[1] Jefferson’s Lego property had originally been a portion of a 1734 land grant issued jointly to Edwin Hickman and three other men.[2] The Lego quarter farm, as well as Tufton and Monticello, totaled nearly 1,000 acres of land under cultivation.[3] In addition, the three properties had almost 175 people living on them, including 135 slaves who worked the farms.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Betts, Farm Book, 32.
  2. ↑ Ibid, 127.
  3. ↑ Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 169.
  4. ↑ Ibid, 177.
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