Frances Taylor

1700 - 1761  (61 years)

• Name	Frances Taylor  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	30 Aug 1700	Orange County, Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 9]
  Gender	Female
  Death	25 Nov 1761	Orange County, Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3, 9]
  Burial	Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA   [2, 9, 10]
  		Cemetery-Madison Family (Montpelier VA)
  Person ID	I22788	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Ambrose Madison,   b. 17 Jan 1696, King and Queen County, Virginia, USA d. 27 Aug 1732, Piedmont, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	Aug 1721	Virginia, USA   [6, 11]
  Children	1. Frances Madison,   b. 6 Mar 1726, King and Queen County, Virginia, USA  [natural]   2. Elizabeth Madison,   b. 14 Jun 1725, King and Queen County, Virginia, USA  [natural]   3. Colonel James Madison, Sr,   b. 27 Mar 1723, King George County, Virginia, USA d. 27 Feb 1801, Orange County, Virginia, USA (Age 77 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F11547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Aug 1700 - Orange County, Virginia, USA Marriage - Aug 1721 - Virginia, USA Death - 25 Nov 1761 - Orange County, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Cemetery-Madison Family (Montpelier VA)

  
  

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  [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), James MADISON v37t1336.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;). [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Dorothea Payne v33t1326.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Isaac MADDESON v21t0903.FTW. [S327] Ancestry.com, Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [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. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), James MADISON v10t4071.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), James MADISON Sr.FTW. [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S2129] Find a Grave: Frances Taylor Madison, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8359008. Frances Taylor was born in Rapidan, Orange Co., VA,the daughter of James Taylor II & Martha Thompson, and was the grandmother of Pres. James Madison Jr. She married on 24 Aug 1721 in St. Margaret's Parish, Rapidan, Orange Co., VA, Ambrose Madison; they had 3 children: Col. James Madison Sr., Elizabeth, & Frances Madison. Burial: Montpelier Estate National Historic Site Montpelier Station Orange County Virginia, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 8359008 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8359008 [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