John Madison, I

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John MADISON I

ABT 1625 - BEF 16 Apr 1683

ID Number: I11539

OCCUPATION: Ship Carpenter out of Gloucester, ENG

RESIDENCE: ENG > abt 1653 To St. Stephens Parish, New Kent Co. VA

BIRTH: ABT 1625, Gloucester, England

DEATH: BEF 16 Apr 1683, St. Stephens Parish, New Kent Co. Virginia

RESOURCES: See: [S273] [S2481]

Father: Isaac MADISON "the Immigrant"

Mother: Mary COUNCILOR

Family 1 : Marie AMBROSE (WIDOW)

+John MADISON II

Ann MADISON

Henry MADISON
+Mary MADISON

Family 2 : COLEMAN

Notes

Src is LDS: Children of John Maddison and Maria Ambrose.

"He was the father of John Madison, Jr., and grandfather of Ambrose Madison, of Montpelier, who married (in 1721) Frances Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, of Orange Co., Va. From this marriage sprang most of the Madisons who settled on the east side of the Blue Ridge. John Madison, Jr., was also ancestor to the very interesting western branch, which gave to Virginia her first Protestant Episcopal Bishop, viz., the Rt. Rev. James Madison, b. 1749; d. 1812."

[S2103]

He was a ship's carpenter. Immigrated in 1653

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other children:

Henry (abt 1662 or 1670)

Ann (1665)

Mary (1675)

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This RootsWeb entry shows:

Recieved 1653 land grant in Glocester Co VA.--Burkes Pres Families..1975

Transported 58 persons to VA 1653-1666. Land grants on 28 AUG 1657, 28 AUG 1658, 18 MAR 1662, 4 JUL 1664, 13 SEP 1664 & 19 OCT 1666 at New Kent Co, VA; 18 FEB 1863 Rappahonack Co VA.

"The site of the original John Madison land grant is uncertain. The Mattapony flows into the York River before reaching the old Gloster County. Madison himself, in the family sketch published in Mead's "Old Churches", described this grant as on Chesapeake Bay between the North and York Rivers. The patent names Colonel Taylor's Creek and Mr. Adam Holland's Creek. "Virginia Patent Book III, 217." "The location of John Maddison's house is revealed by his 1664 purchase of two hundred acres in Stratton Major Parish on the north side of the Mattapony, near Edward Locky's Tower Hill, the description showing that this purchase was bounded on three sides by land he already owned. It extended "south by said Maddison's land to a branch of Whorecock Creek thence east and north by west by land Maddison now lives on." -Nugent, "Va Cavaliers and Pionners, p 515.

Most of the Maddison purchases mentioned Whorecock Creek or Swamp a corruption, apparently, of a Powhatan Indian name, Aworchkaack. Maddison's land also touched an "Indian path called Cheskaack path" which ran from his place to Aquintneocoe Swamp and intersected "Thomas Holmes' cat path." His "line of Marked trees" was used as a boundry by others. All the seventeenth-century Maddison patents are in Nugent. "

--"James Madison, The VA Revolutionist" by Irving Brant.

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The above RootsWeb entry also shows his parents as I have them listed.

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This RootsWeb entry says:

John Madison (or Maddison), a ship's carpenter, arrived in Virginia from England in 1653. For paying the passage of twelve immigrants, including himself, he was granted six hundred acres of land through the "headright" system, a system which allowed anyone fifty acres of land for each immigrant whose passage from England he paid. Usually, those immigrants were indentured servants, who worked for a certain number of years in exchange for their passage. Madison's land was on the Mattapony River, at a place called Mantapike, and for the next thirty years, he continued acquiring land through the "headright" system. By 1683, around the time of his death, his estate consisted of nineteen hundred acres on the York and Mattapony Rivers.

After his death, his son John continued enlarging the family estate, becoming a prominent landholder and serving as sheriff and justice of the peace in King and Queen County. In 1714, he and a neighbor, Daniel Coleman, patented two thousand acres of land on the upper Mattapony River. His three sons, John, Henry, and Ambrose, moved to this land, which was forty miles above Mantapike, and began working on their own estates. Of these sons, Ambrose, the grandfather of President James Madison, proved to be the most important Madison in this generation.

Came from England in 1653.

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"“I John Mattison . . ." land deed 24 February 1659

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He patented 600 acres in Gloster Co., Va

He patented 600 acres in Gloster Co., Va. 1653. He was in New Kent Co., Va. in 1657

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From "Tyler's" Quarterly Historical and

From "Tyler's" Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Genealogies of Virginia Families and the record of Gen. William Madison's Family by Dr. A. G. Grinnan. The bulk of the influential in Virginia during colonial times were composed of merchants from the English cities and ships captains. To this class belonged the first John Madison who acquired considerable tracts of land in Virginia for the importation of emigrants, and who, in a patent dated September, 1682, calls himself "ship carpenter." At this time very good ships of three hundred tons and more were being built at different locations in Virginia, and John Madison had the construction of more than one doubtless. He died before April 16, 1683, since at that time John Madison Jr., patented 430 acres on the North side of the Mattapony River---part thereof, 300 acres, "formerly granted to John Madison Sen'r. deceased. This John Madison is not the son of Isaac Maddison and his wife Mary, as stated in the Genealogy of Gov. George Madison of Kentucky. Isaac Maddison had died by January 24, 1623 according to a letter from George Harrison to his brother John. However, both Isaac and Mary Maddison are called before the Council, June 4, 1623. "Examination of Captian Isaac and Mary Maddison and of Serjeant John Harris taken before the Council of Virginia re a supposed contract of marriage between Mr. Greville Pooley and Mrs. Cicely Jordan a few days after her husband's death. Cecily Jordan has since contracted herself to William Ferrar". The census taken of the inhabitants of Virginia, January 22, 1625, West & Sherley Hundred, lists Mary Maddison, widow, age 30, by Treasurer, 1618. The reported dead at West & Sherley Hundred in 1624 are, Andrew Dudley by Truelove 1622; Raph Freeman by Margaret & John 1622; Mr. William Benet, minister, by Seaflower 1621; Capt. Isaac Maddeson and James Crowder by Return, 1623; Daniell Viero by George, 1623; Bernard Jackson by Margaret & John, 1623; Thomas Weston by George, 1623; James Rolfe, Lieutenant Gibb's man, slain by Indians, John Michaell slain by Indians; Captain Maddison's man slain by Indians. Capt Isaac Maddison was granted 250 acres in the Corporation of Charles City. No other Maddison is listed with in the census with Mary Maddison. This John Madison may be related to the William Madison who imports at least 10 persons between 1655 & 1658, and who was the brother of Timothy & George Madison. The connection between this John Madison and his father would have to be made in England. Land #1 January 4, 1652/53, 600a Glouchester; Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Genealogies of Kentucky Families, 1981, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore. Land #2 August 28, 1657, 800a New Kent Co., North side of the Mattapony River, beginning at another divedent of 600a of said Madison's. Book 4 pg. 166 Land #3 August 28, 1658, 300a New Kent Co., Northeast side of Mattapony River. Book 4 pg 273. Land #4 March 18, 1662/63, 300a New Kent Co., Renewal of 1658 patent. Book 4 pg. 273. Land #5 July 4, 1664, 1050a New Kent Co. On a branch of the main swamp of Piankitank and on the swamp itself. Book 5, pg. 132. Land #6 July 4, 1664, 320a New Kent Co. Book 5, pg. 131. Land #7 September 13, 1664, 200a in Stratton Major Parish. Book 5, pg. 408. Land #8 April 16, 1683, 100a New Kent Co. St. Stephens Parish, adjoining another divident of said Madison. Book 7, pg. 246. All regestered in the Land Patent Office, Richmond, Va

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Life Sketch

Occupation: Ship's carpenter, planter

Married 1653 Kent Co Virgnia Died in Stephen's Parrish LDs record

Immigrant GGF of Pres James Madison Arrived 1653

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John Madison (or Maddison), a ship's carpenter, arrived in Virginia from England in 1653. For paying the passage of twelve immigrants, including himself, he was granted six hundred acres of land through the "headright" system, a system which allowed anyone fifty acres of land for each immigrant whose passage from England he paid. Usually, those immigrants were indentured servants, who worked for a certain number of years in exchange for their passage. Madison's land was on the Mattapony River, at a place called Mantapike, and for the next thirty years, he continued acquiring land through the "headright" system. By 1683, around the time of his death, his estate consisted of nineteen hundred acres on the York and Mattapony Rivers.

After his death, his son John continued enlarging the family estate, becoming a prominent landholder and serving as sheriff and justice of the peace in King and Queen County. In 1714, he and a neighbor, Daniel Coleman, patented two thousand acres of land on the upper Mattapony River. His three sons, John, Henry, and Ambrose, moved to this land, which was forty miles above Mantapike, and began working on their own estates. Of these sons, Ambrose, the grandfather of President James Madison, proved to be the most important Madison in this generation. Contributor: James Long (48530634) •

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History of John Maddison, Sr. (c.1632 - 1682) by Garry Bryant

Unfortunately the county records were destroyed by fires in the 19th century, and many of those records were housed in the courthouse at Richmond, Virginia, which were burned by