Pettigrew's Mother
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Pettigrew's Mother
Sort Name:
Pettigrew, Mother of Thomas
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
First Mentioned:
Origin:
Virginia
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Biography:
The mail rider's mother back in Virginia "never had any schooling" (214). When her son was born, she gave him the name of another Virginian, "Thomas Jefferson," hoping that he might somehow benefit from the purely verbal connection.
Note:
CUT: Her son is pleased to have the town of Jefferson named for him, after raising numerous bureaucratic objections to various ways of accounting for the lost lock.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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