William Madison
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William Taylor Madison (1762 - 1843)

Gen. William Taylor Madison
Born in Montpelier, Orange County, Colony and Dominion of Virginiamap
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Husband of — married 20 Dec 1783 in Orange, Virginiamap
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Died at age 81 in Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia, United States of Americamap
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William was born on 1 or 5 May 1762 in Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia, the sixth of twelve children and the fifth of eight sons of James Madison and Eleanor Rose Conway Madison.
On 20 December 1783, when he was twenty-one, William married Frances Throckmorton in Orange County and they had eleven children, including the following three sons and two daughters:
  1. Rebecca Conway (Madison) Chapman
  2. John Madison
  3. Robert Lewis Madison
  4. Ambrose Madison
  5. Eliza (Madison) Willis.
On 19-20 July 1843, at the age of eighty-one William died of unknown causes at Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia.

From Findagrave.com

Gen William Taylor Madison
Birth: 5 May 1762 Orange County, Virginia; Death: 20 Jul 1843 (aged 81) Orange County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Montpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 8359098.
Bio: Buried in an unmarked grave.(Source: National Park Service) Gen. William Taylor Madison was born & died at Montpelier, Orange Co., VA; he was the son of Col. James Madison & Eleanor "Nellie" Rose Conway (both buried at Montpelier). He had the following siblings: President James Madison Jr., Francis, Ambrose, Catlett (buried at Montpelier), Nellie, Sarah, Elizabeth (buried at Montpelier), Reuben, and Frances Taylor Madison. William married (1) Frances Throckmorton on 20 Dec 1783, in Orange Co., VA; they had the following children: Rebecca Conway Madison Chapman; John Madison; Major Ambrose Madison; James Edwin Madison; Elizabeth Madison; Letitia Madison Slaughter; John Madison; Alfred Madison; Lucy Frances Madison; William F. "Billy" Madison, Jr.; Robert Lewis Madison. He married (2) Nancy Jarrell in 1834; they had one son John R. "Jack" Madison.
Family Members: Parents: James Madison (1723-1801), Eleanor Rose Conway Madison (1731-1829); Spouses: Nancy Jarrell Madison (1789-1875), Frances Throckmorton Madison (1765-1832); Siblings: James Madison (1751-1836), Francis Madison (1753-1800), Ambrose Madison (1755-1793), Catlett Madison (1758-1758), Eleanor Conway Madison Hite (1760-1802), Sarah Catlett Madison Macon (1764-1843), Infant Son Madison (1766-1766), Elizabeth Madison (1768-1775), Infant Son Madison (1770-1770), Reuben Madison (1771-1775), Frances Taylor Madison Rose (1774-1823); Children: John Madison (1787-1809), Robert Lewis Madison (1794-1828), Ambrose Madison (1796-1855), Letitia Madison Slaughter (1808-1828).[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ Alice P. (46631932), “Gen William Taylor Madison,” Findagrave.com. Record added 5 Feb 2004. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8359098/william-taylor-madison. Accessed 10 April 2018.
  • Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America, p.140.

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Jane Underwood
Some of us believe that William and Frances had another daughter, Ann Alvis Madison, born 1809 in Granville Co, NC. She married James Abel and lived and died in MS.
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This week's connection theme is the Puritan Great Migration. William is 13 degrees from John Winthrop, 10 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 11 degrees from John Cotton, 11 degrees from John Eliot, 12 degrees from John Endecott, 13 degrees from Mary Estey, 13 degrees from Thomas Hooker, 12 degrees from Anne Hutchinson, 11 degrees from William Pynchon, 13 degrees from Alice Tilley, 7 degrees from Robert Treat and 10 degrees from Roger Williams on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.

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