Peter Jefferson was a Virginia surveyor, mapmaker, planter, and the father of Thomas Jefferson. With Joshua Fry, he produced a map of Virginia completed in 1751. The available external biographical record associates Peter Jefferson with the following work or social roles: cartographer, plantation owner, surveyor, geodesist, map maker. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them. In 1757, Peter Jefferson died at Shadwell, and his land was divided between his two sons, young Thomas and Randolph. Thomas inherited the land along the Rivanna River with views of the mountain to be called Monticello. Randolph inherited "Snowdon," the so-called Fluvanna Lands.All of his children were beneficiaries of his estate. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.