Sally Hemings
Jefferson told the relatives to choose one of the enslaved women to go with his daughter to France.  He said the woman should be older, already inoculated for smallpox, and of a steady personality.  He asked for an enslaved woman named Isabel, then twenty-nine years old.  But Isabel had just had a baby, so she could not come.  Jefferson's wife's relatives sent Sally Hemings instead.  Sally Hemings was not any of the three things Jefferson had asked for.  She was only fourteen, not inoculated for smallpox, and had a lively personality.