Ambrose Madison

1696 - 1732  (36 years)

• Name	Ambrose Madison  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Birth	17 Jan 1696	King and Queen County, Virginia, USA   [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Aug 1732	Piedmont, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA   [3, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  	Cause: Murder by poisoning - Three slaves were convicted
  	Montpelier Plantation
  Burial	Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA   [7]
  		Cemetery-Madison Family (Montpelier VA)
  Person ID	I26916	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	John Madison, Jr,   b. 1660, St Stephens Church, King and Queen, Virginia, USA d. Aft 1728, King and Queen County, Virginia, USA (Age > 69 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Mother	Isabella Minor Todd,   b. Abt 1670, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA d. Aft 1706 (Age > 37 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Marriage	1690	Virginia, USA   [5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
  Family ID	F8786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances Taylor,   b. 30 Aug 1700, Orange County, Virginia, USA d. 25 Nov 1761, Orange County, Virginia, USA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Aug 1721	Virginia, USA   [2, 8]
  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 - 17 Jan 1696 - King and Queen County, Virginia, USA Marriage - Aug 1721 - Virginia, USA Death - Cause: Murder by poisoning - Three slaves were convicted - 27 Aug 1732 - Piedmont, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Presidential Ancestor - Madison

  
  

  Histories

  Bio-MADISON Ambrose

  
  

  Headstones

  Cemetery-Madison Family (Montpelier VA)

  
  

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• Sources

  [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. [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [S1635] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Name: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998;). [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;). [S36] Ancestry.com, Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Ambrose Madison - Birth: 17 Jan 1696 King and Queen County, Virginia, USA - Death: 27 Aug 1732 (aged 36) Orange County, Virginia, USA. Burial: Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia, USA - Plot: National Park Service reports he & his wife are possibly buried in front of Pres. Madison's monument. - Memorial ID: 8358953 [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 [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Dorothea Payne v33t1326.FTW. [S110] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 35.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: STR. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Norfleet HARRELL.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Frances STREET v7t4098.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Isaac MADDESON v21t0903.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), Ambrose Madison v16t2206.FTW. [S61] World Family Tree, (Name: Family Tree Maker;), James MADISON v10t4071.FTW.