Elizabeth Madison

Biography

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6) Elizabeth - It was a few years before Nicholas and Peggy had another baby, but according to church records, they had a little girl named Elizabeth (called Bettey or Betsey) on March 22, 1774.

“BETTEY WARE DAUGHTER OF NICL. WARE AND MARTHA, HIS WIFE WAS BORN MARCH 22ND 1774” Church Minutes

AUG. 12, 1773 THE FOLLOWING INFANTS WAS RECEIVED INTO THE CARE OF THE CHURCH/ CHLOE SMITH DAUGHTER OF CALEB SMITH... BETTEY WARE DAUGHTER OF NICL. WARE AND MARTHA/

HIS WIFE WAS BORN MARCH 22ND 1774 (Ref. LIBBIE GRIFFIN TO GLENN GOHR) Broad Run Church minutes

Elizabeth came into a world on the brink of revolution, and her birth year would mark the convening of the First Continental Congress. (This convention of delegates from the 13 colonies met to discuss actions that needed to be taken in response to England’s continued tyranny.) The Wares could have no way of knowing at this celebration of Elizabeth’s birth that her father would soon be fighting in a war.

On August 11, 1794, at the age of 20, Elizabeth married John Henry Madison. [In the 1700s the name was spelled ‘Mattison’ - it was only later that it was changed to ‘Madison.’] Henry, as he was known, was the son of Thomas Mattison who came to Carolina from Virginia about 1795, settling in the Pendleton District.

Elizabeth and Henry had four children:

1. Fielden (born September 9, 1795);
2. Strother (born June 1797);
3. Mahulda (born July 3, 1799); and
4. Leroy Ware (born in 1802).

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