Life History
27th Mar 1723 |
Born in Port Conway, King George, Virginia No America.1 |
1749 |
Married Eleanor Rose Nellie CONWAY.1 |
16th Mar 1750 |
Birth of son James President of the US MADISON in Virginia.2 |
27th Feb 1801 |
Died in Montpelier, Orange, Virginia.1 |
Other facts
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Buried in Montpelier Cemetery, Montpelier, Orange County Virginia.1 |
Notes
- Christened April 20, 1723 St. Marks Parish; James and his son James Jr., became members of the Orange County Committee of Safety. James Sr. was in charge of the Militia.
-- Madison Genealogy, Meade II, 96 & St Marks Parish 144- 147
James was Chairman of the Orange County ( VA ) revolutionary committee.
-- Encyclopedia Americana
A Colonel and fought in Virginia.
-- 1774 DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition Part II, page 1876
The Madisons were reared in the Church of England. Col. Madison was a vestryman of St Thomas parish, Orange County VA from 1769 until his death.
-- Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, A Genealogy of The Glassell Family, #975.5, D2 located at the Mesa Family History Center, Mesa AZ
The Madison home Montpelier, the main house, was built by James, Sr. about 1760. The land was passed down by his Grandfather, James Taylor II. Taylor staked a claim of more than 5,000 acres in 1716 as one of Governor Spotswood's Knights of the Golden Horseshoe; these men were the first to explore the Virginia frontier.
-- Cass R. Sandak, The Madisons, Macmillan Publishing County 1992
-- Courtesy of the Taylor-Dabney-Thompson-Madison Genealogy
Sources
- 1. World Family Tree Vol. 149, Ed. 1
- Name: Name: MyFamily.com, Inc.; Date: June-2004;;
- 2. Ohio, Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2007