LATER YEARS.
Harriet Martineau has given us a pleasant picture of Montpellier, and
life there in 1835.
"It was a sweet day of early spring. The patches of snow that were
left under the fences and on the rising grounds were melting fast.
The road was one continued slough up to the very portico of the
house. The dwelling stands on a gentle eminence, and is neat and
even handsome in exterior, with a flight of steps leading up to the
portico.
"A lawn and wood which must be pleasant in the summer stretches
behind, and from the front there is a noble object on the
horizon,--the mountain chain which traverses the state, and makes
it eminent for its scenery. The shifting lights upon these blue
mountains were a delightful refreshment to the eye, after so many
weeks of city life as we had passed.
"We were warmly welcomed by Mrs. Madison, and a niece, a young lady
who was on a visit to her."
Mr. Madison discussed many subjects of mutual interest with Harriet
Martineau during her two days' visit, and she afterwards wrote: "He
appeared perfectly well during my visit, and was a wonderful man of
eighty-three."
Of the second day of her visit she writes:
"The whole of this day was spent like the last, except that we went
over the house looking at the busts and prints, which gave an
English air to the dwelling, which was otherwise wholly Virginian.
During all our conversations one or another slave was perpetually
coming to Mrs. Madison for the great bunch of keys; two or three
more lounged about in the house, leaning against the door-posts or
the corner of the sofa; and the attendance of others was no less
indefatigable in my own apartments."
Harriet Martineau was much interested in slavery, and in discussing the
subject with Madison he told her that all the bad she had heard about it
was true, and he was "in despair in regard to slavery." As long as he
was able he always superintended his own slaves, and had no overseer,
and they were always well cared for. Another visitor at Montpellier had
been greatly surprised to see the women, neatly dressed in bright
calicoes, going to church; and when a shower came, to see the dozen
umbrellas that were raised.
Madison, in speaking of the appalling increase in their numbers, said
that "one-third of his were under five years of age" (he had over one
hundred), and that he had recently been obliged to sell part of his best
land to support them, and also to sell some of his slaves. It does not
seem to have occurred to him to free them, as both Washington and
Jefferson had done by will.
Montpellier and most of the slaves were afterwards sold to pay the debts
of Dolly's dissolute son.
Paul Jennings, Madison's faithful servant, bought his freedom from
Dolly, and afterwards lived with Daniel Webster.
At the time of Dolly's death[64] her negro slaves were valued at two
thousand dollars.
[Illustration: Dolly Madison in later years.
From Water-color by Mary Estelle Cutts.
Courtesy of Miss Lucia B. Cutts.]
Madison was much interested in the Colonization Society. Of the National
Society, founded in 1817, Bushrod Washington was president. Afterward
there was a State Colonization Society of Virginia organized, and of
it John Marshall was president, and its vice-presidents were James
Madison, James Monroe, James Pleasants, John Tyler, Hugh Nelson and
others. These men all recognized the fact that "slavery proved the
spring of woes innumerable," and hindered progress in the south.
Of Dolly, Harriet Martineau said:
"She is a strong-minded woman, fully capable of entering into her
husband's occupations and cares, and there is little doubt that he
owed much to her intellectual companionship, as well as to her
ability in sustaining the outward dignity of his office. When I was
her guest she was in excellent health and lively spirits, and I
trust that, though she has lost the one great object of her life,
she may yet find interests enough to occupy and cheer many years of
honored age."
James Madison had died shortly after this visit on June 28, 1836.
"Madison," said Paul Jennings, "was the best man who ever lived."
Madison was greatly indebted to his wife for the popularity of himself
and his administration. This was brought about partly out of her wish to
see him successful, but mainly by her kind and loving thoughtfulness of
others, and ready tact in smoothing over the rough places that were
ofttimes apparent in the early days of the new government because of the
friction caused by those, so widely differing in opinions, who must yet
work together for the common good.
James G. Blaine said that "Mrs. Madison saved the administration of her
husband, held him back from the extremes of Jeffersonism, and enabled
him to escape from the terrible dilemma of the War of 1812. But for her,
DeWitt Clinton would have been chosen President in 1812."
Payne Todd grew up to be a handsome young man, "the courtliest of all
the cavaliers," during the early years of Madison's administration. His
position put many advantages in his way, and opened the door to less
profitable things. He was feted and petted abroad, and received in the
royal families of Europe. At St. Petersburg, he danced with the Czar's
daughter; in France, the Count D'Orsay was his friend, and afterwards
visited him at Montpellier.
[Illustration: Madison House, Washington, D. C., North View.
Photographed by Samuel M. Brosius.]
He came home to be only a grief to his mother. For a time he was
Monroe's secretary, but he did little serious work. His debts ate up all
his property and hers as well. He never married. He outlived his mother,
whom he dearly loved, but two years, died full of grief and unmourned,
and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington. "His was a
wasted life."
[Illustration: Madison House, Washington, D. C., West View.
Photographed by Samuel M. Brosius.]
Richard Cutts, who had been first senator, and then, for eleven years
(1814-25), secretary of the Senate, was the owner of that valuable
square adjoining Lafayette Square, where in 1822 he built, at the corner
of Madison Place and H street, the gray mastic stuccoed house, now known
as "Madison House," the property of the Cosmos Club. At that time it
consisted of two stories, and was the only house on the square. This
property Madison bought shortly before his death, and the last twelve
years of Dolly's life were spent in this house, already endeared by many
associations, as the home of her sister Anna.
It overlooked Lafayette Square with its fine trees, shrubbery and
statuary, which years ago had been the "old apple orchard" of David
Burns. In the new home, her niece Anna Payne, daughter of her brother
John, who had settled in Kentucky, was her devoted adopted daughter and
caretaker. Here her old friends rallied around her and she held court
during her declining years.
The government bought from her the Madison Papers, thus adding
considerably to her income. She was likewise granted the franking
privilege and the Senate and House each voted her a seat in their
chambers, an unusual mark of respect and appreciation.
[Illustration: Signature of Free D P Madison]
Anna Payne was a bright fun-loving girl, and even the President did not
escape her love of practical jokes. One first of April he accepted her
invitation to dinner, only to be heartily laughed at on his arrival!
One winter, she writes her Aunt Lucy when they had tarried longer than
usual in the country:--
"Nov. 13.--What a dull prospect!--no parties, no 'nothin'' for
Christmas. My conscience! If we stay here this winter we'll
freeze! Ice this morning. Aunt will tell you as soon as she makes
up her mind as to going or not going to Washington. We hear from
the City very frequently;--everybody telling us 'Come Home.' I hope
we may go:--it's a dear place."--
Lucy Payne outlived her second husband, and came back to live with her
son, William Temple Washington, at "Meg Willis" near Harewood. She, too,
lived to a good old age. Her only daughter, Madisonia, died young. Lucy
Payne Todd is buried at Harewood.
The following letter giving glimpses of later days is treasured in her
family:
June 30^{th}.
Beloved Sister:--
I received your answer to James' last, and forwarded it
immediately. Enclosed I send a letter from Madisonia, and am glad
to find she is doing so well. Mrs. Crittenden has returned some
time from Philadelphia, and brought back her son, for whom she
procured glasses to suit the eye upon which there was no operation
performed. She has had a good many friends with her at different
times, which has prevented my seeing her as much as I should
otherwise have done in the manner I desired, which was alone. As
soon, however, as Mrs. Ashley and her daughters (from St. Louis)
leave, she will spend the day quietly with me, when we shall have a
great deal of satisfactory conversation.
Yesterday the good people of Congress received another veto. Mr.
Tyler is becoming more and more unpopular [torn] it is said he will
soon decide himself a Loco-foco.
There was a rumor last night that he was shot, but we soon heard it
was without foundation. The 4th of July will be handsomely
celebrated, from the preparations going forward, and we shall be
here, but not to witness much of it; for, exclusive of the _melting
mood_ (anticipated from past and present experience), it is the
_ton_ for the ladies to remain with closed doors during that day in
Washington.
This evening our next-door neighbor has a dinner, but it is too
warm for me to sit up in style, so I shall spend it sociably with
one of Mrs. Pearson's daughters, who is a near and lovely little
neighbor. Mary Cutts dines with Mrs. Tayloe; Richard has gone to
the North, and Walter to the West on business.
Anna unites with me in love to you and all.
Ever and truly your affectionate sister.
D.
We purpose going home in a week or ten days, and fear it will not
be in our power to visit you on the way, having been kept too long
here on my unfinished business, and believing that the roads and
the heat will be too much for me at this season. In more auspicious
weather I hope to be with you.
To Mrs. Lucy P. Todd,
"Meg Willis"
near Charlestown,
Jefferson County,
Virginia.
James and Madisonia were Lucy Payne's children by her second husband.
All her boys were educated abroad, being sent there when very young.
Madisonia, the daughter, seems to have been at school.
This letter,[65] like so many of Dolly's, was undated. It has her frank
mark upon it. It was probably written in June, 1842, when Tyler vetoed
the tariff bill.
Plantation life, with its roomy surroundings, has given many finely
developed characters. The oak, the chestnut and the tulip tree of the
forest tower higher, because of close contact, perhaps, but in shape
differ little from each other. Planted in the open, each one hastens to
assume its natural form, and becomes symmetrical in a way with which the
other cannot vie. So, too, is it with human life, in country and in
city. Flaws there doubtless are in both, and our noblest characters
ofttimes adorn themselves with some pet whimsicality or foible for
which, like the dwellers of Cranford, they are even more dearly loved.
"Life is a gift from divine Love," says the new teaching, and "why
divide it up into little bits, and think that little by little we are
using it up, and that soon we shall come to an end." "Ignore birthdays,
which only carry suggestions of age and ugliness, and remember that
_life_ and _goodness_ are immortal." Such doctrine as this could it have
been spoken in Dolly's day, would doubtless have voiced her feelings,
and been of greatest comfort. For birthdays she greatly preferred to
forget, and was apt indeed, to do so. Why should the dear old lady have
been reminded so often, of the many milestones past, and the very few
ahead?
FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIMON GRATZ, PHILADELPHIA.
I often desire to see you when I cannot, but now there is a new
reason for the liveliness of my wishes--it is to rectify the
mistake of a moment, not "of a night." You enquired last evening if
I was not one year older than your mother. I answered yes, when I
ought to have said several--In truth I could then only remember my
first acquaintance with that beloved relation, when all the world
seemed young to us.--
She was about seventeen, and I turned of twenty--this was my
calculation before I slept last night--and, being anxious to
disavow the affection of curtailing some precious years, I will
give you a copy of the notice of me in our family Bible, ... and
having been all my life in the world, it gives me the advantage
sometimes of the nominal advance to eighty. I know you will excuse
this little sally on your time because with all your other great
qualities you have the most reasonable and indulgent temper.
Your friend and cos.,
Jan^y 29th 1839 D. P. Madison.
To The Hon^{ble} W. C. Preston.
Darwin has said that a man's worth is best measured by the duration of
his friendships. Dolly's friendships were life-long. She never allowed
the friends of more recent date, no matter who they might be, to crowd
into the background the friends of her youth. In the days of her
prosperity, rich and poor were alike welcomed at her lavish board.
The little daughter of that early correspondent, Elizabeth Brooke
(Ellicott), was treated to strawberries and cake, during informal visits
at the White House. And she gave "Jimmie" no rest until he ordered the
release of "Debby" Pleasants' (Stabler) son, when he was imprisoned
because of conscientious scruples against bearing arms in the war of
1812.
In 1830 she wrote Elizabeth Brooke Ellicott, "it would give me great
satisfaction to meet you both again, and sometimes the hope of doing so
comes over my mind." But this hope was probably never realized, as the
years were leaving their impress on them all.
Philip E. Thomas, the first president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, another cousin, often called and talked about "old times;" and
his daughter, Mary Thomas Wethered, in turn became a favorite visitor.
It was on the 24th day of May, 1844, that Prof. Morse was ready to make
the final test of his electric magnetic recording telegraph, and the
wires between Washington and Baltimore were finally completed. The
Baltimore end was set up at the Mt. Clare shops of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and the Washington end in the Supreme Court room of the
Capitol, where the many friends of the inventor had assembled to see the
first message sent. He had promised his young friend, Miss Annie
Ellsworth, that she should indite the first message over the wires. Her
choice was the words of Scripture (Numbers 23: 23): "What hath God
wrought."[66]
[Illustration: St. John's Church, Washington, D. C.]
In Baltimore a little company were likewise assembled to receive the
message. It was received there and repeated back to Washington with
entire success. Prof. Morse then turned to Dolly Madison, and asked if
she wished to send a message, and a few moments later the first real
message was flashed over the wires. Its wording was: "Message from Mrs.
Madison. She sends her love to Mrs. Wethered." John Wethered was at this
time representative in Congress, from Baltimore city.
The original printed slip of what is now called the "Dolly Madison
message" is carefully preserved in the Thomas family, as is also that
first copy of the message, "What hath God wrought." The return copy was
given by Miss Ellsworth to General Seymour of Connecticut, and by him
deposited in the Hartford Museum, as Miss Ellsworth was from
Connecticut.
For years Dolly had attended the Episcopal church of St. John's, half a
square from her house, of which her sister Anna had become a member. It
was shortly before her death that its rector, Mr. Hawley, "persuaded her
of her wish" to become a communicant, and she was accordingly baptized
with considerable ceremony.
She lived to be eighty-one years old, and during her later years lived
much in the past, amongst the old friends, of whom her family knew
nothing.
She died July 12th, 1849, and her funeral services were held in St.
John's Church, the "Court Church" of Washington. They were those
befitting a President's wife, and her remains were attended by the
Government officials, and her many loving friends and admirers, to the
Congressional Cemetery.
The Mayor, Honorable W. W. Seaton, called a special meeting of the City
Council, and passed resolutions of respect.
The _National Intelligencer_ of July 17, 1849, says: "The remains of the
venerable relict of ex-president Madison, were removed from her late
residence, Lafayette Square, to St. John's church, yesterday afternoon,
at 4 o'clock. The rector of the church, Rev. Mr. Pyne, delivered an
eloquent and just eulogy on the life and character of the deceased,
which was listened to with deep interest by a dense congregation,
including the President of the United States, the Cabinet officers,
gentlemen of the army, the Mayor and City Council, and many
distinguished citizens and strangers." Her body was afterward[67]
removed to Montpellier, where, after "life's fitful fever" the gift of
sleep is hers.
[Illustration: Franklin Stove]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 64: Inventory of Dolly's property at the time of her death
gives:
Amount in bank $22,000
Household furniture and plate 900
Books 500
Pictures and portraits (4 Gilbert Stuarts) 5,000
Negro slaves 2,000
-------
Total $30,400]
[Footnote 65: Owned by Mrs. Eugenia W. M. Brown.]
[Footnote 66: The dotted copy of this first message is given in Prime's
Life of Morse.]
[Footnote 67: In 1858, accompanied there by her nephew, Gen. R. D.
Cutts.]
INDEX
Adams, John 67, 86
Adams, John Quincy, 77
"Alexandria", 77, 79, 80
Arnold, Benedict, 57
Ash, James, 70
Atmore, Caleb, 71
Baldwin, Dr., 83
Balmaine, Dr., 82
Barker, Jacob, 104
Bartram, Isaac, 71
Bartram, Sally, 64
Bates, Benjamin, Jr., 54
Benezet, 42
Bentley, Caleb, 106
Biddle, John, 71
Biddle, Owen, 71
Biddle, Sarah, 71
Bladensburg 103, 107
Blaine, James G., 114
Blau, Betsy, 70
Breed, Ebenezer, 71
Bringhurst, James, 71
Brook, Elisabeth, 61, 62
Brook, James and James, Jr., 61
Brooke, Eliza, Jr., 65
Brown, Mrs. Eugenia W. M., 91, 119
Burrows, Stephen, 70
Burrowes, Mary, 70
Burr, Aaron, 75
Burr, Theodosia, 75
Burns, David, 116
Burgesses, House of, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 82, 57
Byrd, Col. William, 17, 30, 31, 49
Calhoun, John C., 32
Campbell, General William, 100
Campbell, Sarah, 100, 101
Carmalt, Caleb, 71
Carroll, Mr., 104, 105
Chamberlain, Benj., 71
Clark, Samuel, 70
Clay, Henry, 30
Clifford, Thomas, 70
Clinton, De Witt, 114
Coates, Samuel, 71
Cobbett, William (Peter Porcupine), 91
Cole, Thomas, 33
Cole (or Coles), William, 26, 27, 33
Coles, Col. John, 90
Coles, Edward, 26, 90
Coles, John, 26, 90
Coles, Lucy, 29
Coles, Major John, 26
Coles, Mary, 26, 29, 90
Coles, Walter, 27
Collins, Eliza, 71
Collins, Zaccheus, 71
Conrad, Elijah, 71
Cornwallis, 50, 51, 58, 90
Craik, Dr., 80
Cresson, James, 70
Cresson, John E., 71
Crew, James, 46
Crew, Micajah, 43, 46
Crittenden, Mrs., 117
Curles Plantation, 41, 42, 56
Cutts, Adele, 88
Cutts, Gen. R. D., 125
Cutts, Mary Payne, 99, 118
Cutts, Senator Richard, 88, 115
Dabney, Lucy and William, 27
Dandridge, Captain Alexander Spotswood, 50, 51
Dandridge, Dorothea Spotswood, 19, 30
Dandridge, Nathaniel West, 19
Davis, Captain John, 51
Davis, Micajah, 45
Dawson, Elizabeth, 71
de Chastellux, Marquis, 22, 48, 51, 87
De Peyster, Mr., 104
Dilworth, Eliz. P., 71
Dilworth, Mary, 63
Dinwiddie, Governor, 31
Dorsey, Benedt, 70
Doughten, Kitty, 71
Douglas, Stephen A., 88
D'Orsay, Count, 114
Downing, Jacob, 48
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 84, 91
Drinker, Abigail, 71
Drinker, Anna, 71
Drinker, Elizabeth, 45, 48
Drinker, Henry, 45, 68
Drinker, Henry S., 71
Drinker, Mary, Jr., 71
Drinker, Sally, 48
Dunbar, Mr., 84
du Pont, William, 101
D'Yrujo, Chevalier, 94
Eddy, Mary, 71
Edmunds, 90
Ellicott, Elizabeth Brooke, 121
Ellicott, George, 61
Elliott, John, Jr., 71
Ellsworth, Miss Annie, 122, 123
Elmore, Elizabeth, 46
Emlen, Samuel and Samuel, Jr., 71
Evans, Griffith, 71
Fisher, Esther, 70
Fitzhugh, Lucy Tyson, 62, 65, 95
Fleming, Anne, 22, 23
Fleming, Sir Thomas, 23
Follet, Thos., 71
Foulke, Caleb, 70
Fox, Elizabeth, 63, 66
Fox, George, 66
Fox, Joseph, 63, 66
Fox, Samuel Mickle, 63
Fulton, Harriet and Robert, 96
Georgetown, 105
Gilpin, Lydia Fisher, 63
Gilpin, Joshua and Thomas, 63
Goochland, 21, 50
Goochland County, 39, 48, 61
Greene, General Nathaniel, 58
Hanover County, Va., 17, 20, 26, 27, 32, 33, 39, 47, 48, 50
Harewood, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 117
Harris, Moses, 45, 46
Harrison, Thos., 70
Hawley, Mr., 123
Henry, Elizabeth, 100
Henry, John, 31
Henry, Patrick, 19, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 42, 48, 49, 52, 90, 100
Henry, William, 32
Hite, Mr. and Mrs. F., 83, 84
Hodgdon, Maria, 71
Hopkinson, 93
Howard, Mr., 84
Howell, Arthur, 68, 71
Hunnicutt, James, 45, 46
Independence, Declaration of, 105
Ingersoll's History of the War of 1812, 101, 107
Irving, Washington, 99
Jackson, Congressman J. G., 88
Janney, Jno., 66
Jarman, Mr., 36
Jarvis, James, 46
Jefferson, Peter, 50
Jefferson, Thomas, 41, 50, 57, 72, 81, 88, 90, 97, 112
Jennings, Paul, 112, 113
Johnson, Richard, 71
Jones, Owen, 70
Jones, Susanna, 71
King, Josiah, 105
Kosciusko, General, 94
Latrobe, Benjamin H., 93, 94, 95, 96, 108
Lafayette, 81, 90
Lear, Tobias, 78
Lee, Elizabeth, 75
"Lee, Light Horse Harry", 81
Lee, Robert E., 58
Lewis, George, 76
Livingstone, Cornelia Schuyler, 96
Livingston, Walter, 96
Lloyd, Hannah and Mordecai, 67
Logan, James, 70
Lynch, Charles, 56, 57, 58
Lynch, John, 56
Lynch, Sarah Clark, 56
Lynn, Capt., 65
McKean, Chief Justice, 93
McKean, Elizabeth, 105
Mackay, Dr., 83
Madison, Francis, 81
Madison, Isaac, 53
Madison, James., 26, 75, 76, 81, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 99, 100,
103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 118, 124.
Madison, Lucy, 53
Madison, Temple, 53
Madison, Walter, 53
Manumission Paper, 43
Marriage Certificate of John Todd and Dolly Payne, 69
Marshall, Ann, 71
Marshall, John, 113
Marshall, Sarah Ann, 71
Martineau, Harriet, 110, 111, 113
Mason, General, 106
Monroe, James, 90, 105, 108, 113, 115
Monticello, 90
Montpellier, 101, 110, 111, 112, 114, 125
Moorman, C., 56
Morgan, Benjamin, Jr., 71
Morris, Anthony, 67, 71
Morris, Caspar W., 71
Morris, Kitty, 64
Morris, Robert, 72
Morse, Prof., 122, 123
Morton, Phebe, 67
Morton, Samuel, 67
Mt. Vernon, 72, 102
"Negrofoot", 36
Nelson, General, 48
Nelson, Hugh, 56, 113
Nelson, Susan, 52
New York, 93, 96, 104
North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 38
Octagon House, 108
Offley, 48, 51
Page, Thomas Nelson, 40, 52
Page, Thomas Walker, 24, 58
"Paine," Mary, Ruth and William, 33
Parker, Sarah, 65
Parrish, Abigail and Sarah, 71
Parrish, John, 70
Payne, Anne, 25, 59
Payne, Anna, 70, 81, 87, 88, 97, 115, 116, 123
Payne, Col. John, 21
Payne, Dorothy, 59, 69
Payne, George, 21, 89
Payne, Isaac, 86
Payne, John ("Jr."), 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43,
44, 45, 46, 47, 56, 59, 60, 69, 70, 87, 90, 116.
Payne, Josias, 21, 22
Payne, Lucy, 70, 71, 76, 85, 97
Payne, Mary, 18, 20, 27, 33, 37, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 47, 56, 59, 69, 70,
75, 86, 87, 88.
Payne, Miss A., 83
Payne, Philadelphia, 59
Payne, Sir Robert, M.P., 21
Payne, Walter, 18, 45, 48
Payne, William Temple, 59, 86
Pearson, Mrs., 118
Pemberton, 42
Pemberton, Charles, 66
Pemberton, Esther, 66
Pemberton, Israel, 67
Pemberton, James, 67, 68, 70
Pemberton, John, 68, 70
Pemberton, Mary ("Molly C."), 66
Pemberton, Mary S., 71
Pemberton, Phebe, 71
Pemberton, Rachel, 67
Pennsylvania Historical Society, 84, 91
Pettus, Edmund Winston, 32
Philadelphia, 26, 44, 45, 46, 56, 59, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75,
78, 84, 85, 86, 91, 92, 94, 96, 102, 117, 120.
Philippe, Louis, 81
Pleasants, Anna P., 71
Pleasants, Deborah, 61, 62, 64
Pleasants, Elizabeth, 61
Pleasants, Israel, 71
Pleasants, James, 65, 113
Pleasants, John, 41
Pleasants, Mary, 63, 71
Pleasants, Robert, 41, 42, 56
Pleasants, Samuel, 63, 68, 70
Pleasants, Sarah, 63
Pleasants, Thomas, 43, 44, 56, 61
Poultney, John, 71
Poultney, Thos., 70
Preston, Francis, 100
Preston, Hon. William Campbell, 32, 100, 101, 121
Pyne, Rev. Mr., 124
Randolph, 90
Randolph, William, 50
Revere, Paul, 66
Revolution, 40, 48, 50, 57, 58
Richmond, Va., 26, 30, 52, 55, 57
Roads, M., 63
Roberts, Geo., 71
Roberts, Sally Logan, 26
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 92, 93, 106
St. John's Church, Richmond, Va., 26, 41
St John's Church, Washington, D. C., 95, 123, 124
Sansom, Billy, 48
Savery, William, 68, 70
"Scotch Town", 20, 34, 35, 37, 48, 50
Seaton, Hon. W. W. (Mayor), 124
Seymour, General, of Connecticut, 123
Shaw, Mary and Samuel, 71
Smith, David, Mary, Sarah, 67
Spottswood, Alexander, 19, 22, 54
Stabler, Deborah (Pleasants), 61, 121
Stabler, Edward, 42
Stabler, William, 61
Stanley, James, Thomas and Thomas, Jr., 53
Stevens (Stephens) General, 50
Syme, John, 31, 32
Syme, Sarah, 30
Talbot, Charles, 23
Tayloe, Colonel John, 108, 118
Temple, Anne, 47
Temple, Dolley, 19, 47
Temple, Isaac, John, Lucy, Mary, 47
Temple, Wm., 19, 47
Terrell, Micajah, 45
Terrill, Anne, 56
Terrill, David, 47
Thomas, Philip E., 122
Thornton, Dr. William, 108
Tilghman, Edward, 70
Tilghman, Mr., 51
Todd, Alice, 70
Todd, James, 70, 119
Todd, John, Jr., 63, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 87
Todd, John Payne, 72, 73, 114
Todd, John, Sr., 71, 73
Todd, Judge Thomas, 99
Todd, Lucy (Payne) (Washington), 100, 102, 117, 119
Todd, Madisonia, 117, 119
Todd, Mary, 70, 73
Todd, William Temple, 72, 73
Trollope, Mrs., 94
Tyler, John, 113, 118, 119
Virginia, 18, 20, 21, 25, 33, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55,
56, 59, 61, 68, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 99, 116.
Walker, George, 87
Waln, Nicholas, 66, 67, 68, 71
Waln, Sarah, 70
Ward, Susan, 63
Washington, Bushrod, 76, 102, 112
Washington, Col. Samuel, 80
Washington, D. C., 88, 91, 94, 106, 107, 108, 118, 122, 123
Washington, George, 19, 29, 41, 76, 77, 78, 80, 85, 86, 100, 102, 104,
112.
Washington, George Steptoe, 76, 77, 78, 81, 89, 91, 93
Washington, Harriet, 81, 83
Washington, John Augustine, 81, 102
Washington, Lawrence, 78, 89
Washington, Lucy (Payne), 81, 85, 87, 89, 91, 98, 99
Washington, Martha, 89
Washington, Samuel, 76, 81, 89
Washington, Thornton, 89
Washington, William Augustine, 76
Washington, William Temple, 117
Wayne, General, 50
Webster, Daniel, 112
Wells, Polly, 48
West, Chas., Jr., 71
Wetherburn, Henry, 50
Wethered, John, 123
Wethered, Mary Thomas, 122, 123
White House, 90, 95, 98, 100, 108, 121
Wigdon, Earl of, 23
Williams, General George R., 88
Winder, General, 102, 106
Winston, Isaac, 27, 28, 29
Winston, Judge Edmund, 30
Winston, Lucy, 27, 33
Winston, Mary, 26, 27
Winston, Sarah, 30, 31
Winston, William, 29, 30
Wirt, William, 56, 90
Wistar, Dr., 96
Wister, Betsy, 64
Wister, Sally, 64
[Illustration: James Madison's Cloak-Clasp]
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Transcriber's note
The following changes have been made to the text:
Page 11: "58" changed to "59".
Page 14: "58" changed to "59".
Page 36 (illustration): "Negro-foot" changed to "Negrofoot".
Page 41: "finally succeded" changed to "finally succeeded".
Page 78 (footnote): "America in 1705" changed to "America in 1795".
End of Project Gutenberg's Dorothy Payne, Quakeress, by Ella Kent Barnard