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Family: Ambrose Madison / Frances Taylor (F11547)

• Male Ambrose Madison

  
  

  Birth	17 Jan 1696	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
  Death	27 Aug 1732	Piedmont, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA
  Burial		Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA
  Marriage	Aug 1721  [1, 2]	Virginia, USA  [1, 2]
  Father	John Madison, Jr | F8786 Group Sheet
  Mother	Isabella Minor Todd | F8786 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Frances Taylor

  
  

  Birth	30 Aug 1700	Orange County, Virginia, USA
  Death	25 Nov 1761	Orange County, Virginia, USA
  Burial		Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA
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  Female Frances Madison

  
  

  Birth	6 Mar 1726	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
  Baptism	9 Apr 1726	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
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  Spouse	Taverner Beale | F6335
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  Female Elizabeth Madison

  
  

  Birth	14 Jun 1725	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
  Baptism	3 Jul 1725	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
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  Spouse	John Willis | F6407
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  Spouse	Richard Beale | F6415
  Marriage	1 Jan 1753	Orange County, Virginia, USA

  
  

  Male Colonel James Madison, Sr

  
  

  Birth	27 Mar 1723	King George County, Virginia, USA
  Baptism	21 Apr 1723	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
  Death	27 Feb 1801	Orange County, Virginia, USA
  Burial		Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA
  Spouse	Eleanor Rose 'Nelly' Conway | F10583
  Marriage	15 Sep 1749	Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA

  
  

• Sources

  [S110] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 43.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LDF. [S2128] Wikipedia: Ambrose Madison, (Name: Wikipedia;), Ambrose Madison. Frances and Ambrose Madison's share of land was the basis of their plantation, which they called Mount Pleasant (later to be known as Montpelier (Orange, Virginia). To clear the land to secure title, Madison bought 29 African slaves, likely Igbo, who worked under white overseers for five years before the Madisons moved to the property. The Madison family moved to the plantation in 1732 after a house had been built and tobacco cultivation had started. They had several children, and their oldest son was James Madison Sr., the future father of U.S. President James Madison. Ambrose Madison died that summer at age 36 after a short illness, on August 27, 1732. The family or the sheriff believed he was poisoned by slaves, and three were charged in the case. As the historian Douglas B. Chambers notes in his 2005 book on the Igbo in Virginia, historic evidence was severely limited. There is no way for historians to assess what the charges were based on, and if they arose more out of planter fears of slaves than slave actions. According to the brief court records, three African slaves were charged and convicted by the justices of the Commission of Peace of poisoning the planter. The justices apparently believed Dido and Turk, owned by the widow Frances Taylor Madison, had lesser roles and, after punishing them by whipping, returned the slaves to her for continued labor. Pompey, owned by a neighboring planter, was believed the ringleader and was executed. As Chambers notes, they were the first slaves convicted in Virginia of a planter's murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Madison