{"id":765,"date":"2014-01-04T21:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2014-01-04T22:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T03:49:24","slug":"african-american-family-tree-on-display-at-tennessee-state-museum-exhibit-slaves-and-slaveholders-of-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/african-american-family-tree-on-display-at-tennessee-state-museum-exhibit-slaves-and-slaveholders-of-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Family Tree on Display at Tennessee State Museum Exhibit Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-764\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/african-american-family-tree-on-display-at-tennessee-state-museum-exhibit-slaves-and-slaveholders-of-wessyngton-plantation\/washington-family-tree-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"washington-family-tree\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/washington-family-tree-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"washington-family-tree\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/washington-family-tree-1024x523.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/washington-family-tree-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the items on display at the Tennessee State Museum exhibit <em>Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation<\/em> will be a family tree\u00a0of an enslaved family.\u00a0 The tree spans eleven generations from 1760 to 2012 and includes more than 1,000 direct descendants.\u00a0 In 1814, Wessyngton&#8217;s founder Joseph Washington (1770-1848) purchased\u00a0six slaves from James Thompson:\u00a0Tom born 1783, his wife Jenny born 1785, their four children Frank born 1806, Hannah born 1808, Sarah born 1810 and Henny born 1814.\u00a0 This was the first nuclear family Washington purchased.\u00a0 Washington later purchased Jenny&#8217;s mother, also named Jenny,\u00a0born in 1760.\u00a0 By the Civil War, this was one of the largest families on\u00a0Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0 Many of their descendants still remain in\u00a0the area.\u00a0\u00a0Hundreds of\u00a0other\u00a0descendants are spread throughout the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the items on display at the Tennessee State Museum exhibit Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation will be a family tree\u00a0of an enslaved family.\u00a0 The tree spans eleven generations from 1760 to 2012 and includes more than 1,000 direct descendants.\u00a0 In 1814, Wessyngton&#8217;s founder Joseph Washington (1770-1848) purchased\u00a0six slaves from James Thompson:\u00a0Tom born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,13,20,22],"tags":[573,51,83,78,535,519,534],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}