My Book(ish) Life

who am i

For a school assignment we have wax museum and this is my speech.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
I was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, VA. My parents names were Peter and Jane. I have 9 siblings. I grew up on a plantation with slaves. My first childhood memory, at age three, was of the fifty-mile horseback ride I took with my father's slave into the Virginia wilderness. Here's a quick fun fact I love vanilla ice-cream. I first discovered it in France then brought a recipe home.
I studied in a boarding school and at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1767 I became a lawyer. The next year I designed my own home, named Monticello, on a mountain near Shadwell.
I married My first wife Martha on new year's eve 1772, and we had 6 children. My wife Martha died after ten years of marriage and I never remarried. Fact #2 only two of my children made it to adulthood. Fact #3 we named one of my children after Martha.
I became the third President of the United States on March 4,1801. I was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and a rebel against King George III. "Most bad government has grown out of to much government".
On July 4, 1826 I died at Charlottesville, VA. Last fact I died on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Who am I? (please comment yoir guess here)