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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and the United States. His contemporary reputation was as a "scandalmonger", due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content. In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties, and reported on President Thomas Jefferson's alleged children by his slave concubine Sally Hemings. Callender's authority and veracity have been controversial. His statements about Jefferson are thought by some to have been confirmed by a 1998 DNA analysis and the weight of historical evidence, as shown by the historian Annette Gordon-Reed and others. The testing showed that a male of the Jefferson family fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children. It also revealed, however, that the father of Sally's eldest child was French, thus proving that Sally lied when she told that son that Thomas Jefferson was his father, and casting doubt on her late-in-life assertion that Thomas fathered all of her children. Many historians acknowledge that the DNA results are not dispositive. Two dozen Jefferson males were alive at the time, and at least eight lived within a day's journey of Monticello; the DNA testing could not distinguish among them. Some historians think that Thomas Jefferson's brother (who was known to take his fiddle to the slave quarters and play with other musicians there) is the more likely father of those among Sally's children who were fathered by a Jefferson."@en }

• James_T._Callender abstract "James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and the United States. His contemporary reputation was as a "scandalmonger", due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content. In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties, and reported on President Thomas Jefferson's alleged children by his slave concubine Sally Hemings. Callender's authority and veracity have been controversial. His statements about Jefferson are thought by some to have been confirmed by a 1998 DNA analysis and the weight of historical evidence, as shown by the historian Annette Gordon-Reed and others. The testing showed that a male of the Jefferson family fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children. It also revealed, however, that the father of Sally's eldest child was French, thus proving that Sally lied when she told that son that Thomas Jefferson was his father, and casting doubt on her late-in-life assertion that Thomas fathered all of her children. Many historians acknowledge that the DNA results are not dispositive. Two dozen Jefferson males were alive at the time, and at least eight lived within a day's journey of Monticello; the DNA testing could not distinguish among them. Some historians think that Thomas Jefferson's brother (who was known to take his fiddle to the slave quarters and play with other musicians there) is the more likely father of those among Sally's children who were fathered by a Jefferson.".