Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

Wide receiver Tony Martin had 50 catches for 885 yards and 7 touchdowns, wide receiver Shawn Jefferson recorded 43 catches for 627 yards and 3 touchdowns, and tight end Alfred Pupunu had 21 receptions for 214 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Wide receiver Shawn Jefferson recorded 50 receptions for 771 yards and 4 touchdowns.

* November 14 – The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society was held at Canonsburg Academy ( now Washington & Jefferson College ).

Webster recorded that Jefferson told him in December 1824 that Jackson was a dangerous man unfit for the presidency.

Note: The " City of Lafayette " in Jefferson Parish, as it is recorded in U. S. censuses until 1870, should not be confused with the present city of Lafayette, Louisiana in Lafayette Parish

As with the Reports, Coke's Institutes became a standard textbook in the United States, and were recorded in the law libraries of Harvard College in 1723 and Brown University in 1770 ; John Jay, John Adams, Theophilus Parsons and Thomas Jefferson were all influenced by it.

During the transitional period of the early 1970s, when the Jefferson Airplane was in the process of disbanding, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner recorded Blows Against the Empire.

Towards the end of 1978, Jefferson Starship ( now without Grace Slick ) recorded " Light the Sky on Fire " for The Star Wars Holiday Special and their forthcoming greatest hits album Gold.

His name appeared on " Reefer Head Blues ", recorded by Jazz Gillum and Aerosmith, and " Me and My Chauffeur ", recorded by Memphis Minnie and Jefferson Airplane.

Artists that recorded in their Grafton studio included Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Skip James, Papa Charlie Jackson, Ida Cox, and Ma Rainey.

" Somebody to Love " is a rock song that was written by Darby Slick and originally recorded by 1960s folk rock band The Great Society and later by the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.

T-Bone Walker, Lead Belly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, and even Robert Johnson himself first recorded in this area, just as Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys were leaving the studio.

Other releases recorded at the festival included The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Ravi Shankar.

According to researchers later exploring studio history for Hyde Street Studios, the first release out of studio C was the Jefferson Airplane ’ s Volunteers ; which was also the first album they recorded in their hometown.

Describing the upper Jefferson River, Lewis recorded on August 2, 1805:

Ezra Stiles in the late 1700s and a 202-word Unquachog vocabulary recorded by Thomas Jefferson in 1791, though the Jefferson vocabulary also shows clear signs of dialect mixture and " external influences.

Later the same year, Jefferson Airplane recorded the song " We Can Be Together " for their Volunteers album, a song containing the word " motherfucker ".

Their friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg joked about " Shelley and his two wives ," Mary and Claire, a remark that Clairmont recorded in her own journal.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

Historians widely believe that the widower Thomas Jefferson, both before and during his presidency of the United States in the early 19th century, had an intimate relationship of 38 years with his mixed-race slave Sally Hemings, in such an arrangement, and fathered all of her six children of record.

In 1801 Jefferson supported France in its plan to take back Saint-Domingue, then under control of Toussaint Louverture after a slave rebellion.

In 1804 Haiti declared independence but, fearing a slave revolt at home, Jefferson and the US Congress refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed a trade embargo against it.

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

Over several days of debate, Congress made a few changes in wording and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade, changes that Jefferson resented.

Thomas Jefferson attributed the use of slave labor in part to the climate, and the consequent idle leisure afforded by slave labor: " For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him.

Jefferson located one set of his slaves ' quarters on Mulberry Row, a one-thousand foot road of slave, service, and industrial structures.

Mulberry Row was situated three-hundred feet ( 100 m ) south of Monticello, with the slave quarters facing the Jefferson mansion.

A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the household slave who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.

Hemings had the legal right to remain in France as a free person ; if she returned to Virginia with Jefferson, it would be as a slave.

Scott's lavish plantation was said to be identical to Jefferson Davis ' mansion in Mississippi and he eventually became the largest slave owner in Harrison County.

In his reminiscence of 1873 Israel Jefferson, former slave at Monticello, recalled a conversation Lafayette had when visiting Thomas Jefferson in 1824, " Lafayette remarked that he thought that the slaves ought to be free ; that no man could rightly hold ownership of his brother man ; that he gave his best services to and spent his money on behalf of the Americans freely because he felt that they were fighting for a great and noble principle-the freedom of mankind ; that instead of all being free a portion were held in bondage ( which seemed to grieve his noble heart ); that it would be mutually beneficial to masters and slaves if the latter were educated, and so on.

As an example of such changes, in 2007 the DAR posthumously honored Mary Hemings Bell, a former slave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, as a " Patriot of the Revolution.

Taylor agreed with Jefferson that the institution was an evil, but took issue with Jefferson's repeated references to the specific cruelties of slavery, arguing that " slaves are docile, useful and happy, if they are well managed ," and that " the individual is restrained by his property in the slave, and susceptible of humanity.

Congress, having made a few changes in wording, deleted nearly a fourth of the draft before publication, removing a passage critical of the slave trade, and many members of Congress, Jefferson included, owned slaves.

In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ( later to be the President of the Confederate States of America ) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included on a statue of Freedom on the grounds that, " American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave ".

Historian Garry Wills has postulated that without the additional slave state votes, Jefferson would have lost the presidential election of 1800.

Thomas Jefferson is widely believed to have fathered four surviving mixed-race children with his slave Sally Hemings, who was three-quarters white by ancestry.

With the upcoming expiration of the 20-year ban on Congressional action on the subject, Jefferson, a lifelong enemy of the slave trade, called on Congress to criminalize the international slave trade, calling it " violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe.

The banjo was a feature of slave life in America, mentioned by Thomas Jefferson, for example, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, which refers to it as a banjar, and notes that the instrument came from Africa.