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Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison, a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia until 1800, likely encountered each other at social events in the temporary federal capital.
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Dolley and Payne
On September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a young widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Dolley Payne was born May 20, 1768, at the New Garden Quaker settlement in North Carolina, where her parents, John Payne and Mary Coles Payne, lived briefly.
Dolley Payne Todd Madison ( May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849 ) was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
Dolley Payne was born as the first girl in her family on May 20, 1768, in the Quaker settlement of New Garden, North Carolina, in Guilford County.
Dolley Payne was reared in the Quaker faith.
In January 1790, Dolley Payne had married John Todd, a Quaker lawyer in Philadelphia.
Tragedy struck Dolley, as she lost both her husband and younger son William in the epidemic, as well as her Payne parents-in-law.
Dolley Todd was a widow at the age of twenty-five, with her young son Payne to support.
Madison accepted, and his family: Dolley, her son Payne Todd ( as he was commonly called ), and her sister Anna Payne, moved to Washington, with their domestic slaves.
In 1830, Dolley Madison's son by her first marriage, Payne Todd, who had never found a career, went to debtors prison in Philadelphia.
* The Dolley Madison Project-The life, legacy, and letters of Dolley Payne Madison
* The Dolley Madison Digital Edition-The online correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison
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However, the first documented wedding ceremony held in the White House was when Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison, arranged the wedding of her youngest sister, Lucy Payne Washington to Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd in 1812.
Lucy Washington ( née Payne ) ( 1772 ?– 1846 ), one of eight children born to John Payne and Mary Coles, was the sister of Dolley Madison, the wife of American President James Madison.
Dolley and Todd
In the fall of 1837, Dolley Madison returned to Washington, charging Todd with the care of the plantation.
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* Dolley Todd House
Dolley and James
The porcelain place setting service features a green basket weave border based on a French dinner service believed to have been owned by James and Dolley Madison.
* Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison and the fourth First Lady of the United States.
Miniature of Dolley, painted by James Peale, 1794
On April 6, 1817, a month after his retirement from the presidency, Dolley and James Madison returned to the Montpelier plantation in Orange County, Virginia.
* Arnett, Ethel Stephens, Mrs. James Madison: The Incomparable Dolley, Greensboro, N. C .: Piedmont Press, 1972.
During the burning of Washington by British troops in the War of 1812, this painting was saved through the intervention of First Lady Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings, one of President James Madison's slaves.
* Dolley Madison, spouse of President James Madison.
For example, in 1837, the federal government purchased former U. S. President James Madison's manuscripts from his widow, Dolley Madison, for $ 30, 000 ; if this is construed as covering copyright as well as the physical papers, it would be an example of such a transfer.
According to an undocumented tradition, Dolley Madison, the wife of President James Madison, began the event in 1814 and hundreds of children brought their decorated eggs to join in games.
( Dolley Madison was Coles ’ first cousin and Edward ’ s brother, Isaac Coles, had been secretary to both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison during their administrations.
At the end of 1831, while visiting James and Dolley Madison at Montpelier ( Orange County, Virginia ), Madison confided in Coles his wish to manumit his own slaves and called on Coles ’ experience in trying to sort out the challenge of finding the right way in which to do this.
Believing that Madison had committed to freeing his slaves in his will, Coles was devastated when, after the passing of James Madison, the terms of the will were made known and the slaves had not been freed but passed to his wife, Dolley Madison, who was also Coles ' cousin.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has owned and operated the estate since 1984, and from 2003-2008 carried out a major restoration, in part to return the mansion to its original size of 22 rooms during the years when it was occupied by James Madison and Dolley Madison.
Phase 2 ( 1797 – 1800 ) of construction began in 1797, after James Madison returned to Montpelier with his new wife Dolley Madison.
Next, a single-story flat-roofed extensions was installed at either end of the house providing a separate household for the newlyweds James Madison and Dolley Madison, as Frances Madison still resided there after the death of James Madison, Sr. in 1801.
James Madison retired there full-time with Dolley Madison after his second term as president in 1817.
After Dolley Madison died in 1849, she was buried in Washington, DC and later re-interred at Montpelier next to James Madison.
*" Memories of Montpelier: Home of James and Dolley Madison ", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan
Dolley and Madison
While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.
The Dolley Madison House, Walton concluded, was scarcely worth preserving.
Dolley Madison was the first President's wife to be referred to as " First Lady " at her funeral in 1849.
According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.
Dolley Madison popularized the First Ladyship by engaging in efforts to assist orphans and women, by dressing in elegant fashions and attracting newspaper coverage, and by risking her life to save iconic treasures during the War of 1812.
Dolley Madison put her social gifts to use when the couple lived in Washington, beginning when he was Secretary of State.
First lady Dolley Madison rescued a painting of George Washington, and in 1939, a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington.
* July 12 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1768 )
* May 20 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1849 )
First Lady Dolley Madison is also closely associated with the early history of ice cream in the United States.
But, her birth was registered with the New Garden Friends Meeting as Dolley, and her will of 1841 states " I, Dolly P. Madison ".
Dolley Madison worked with the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe to furnish the White House, the first official residence built for the president of the United States.
As the invading British army neared Washington in 1814 during the war, Dolley Madison ordered the Stuart painting a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, to be removed, as the White House staff hurriedly prepared to flee:
" Popular accounts during and after the war years tended to portray Dolley Madison as the one who removed the painting, and she became a hero.
Dolley Madison hurried away in her waiting carriage, along with other families fleeing the city.
Dolley Madison grave at Montpelier
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