CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WARES AND PRESIDENTS JAMES MADISON and ZACHARY TAYLOR

ALSO Dolley Madison, Patrick Henry, Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd, Reverend Alexander Balmain, Major George Steptoe Washington (a nephew of President Washington) and the first Mrs. Jefferson Davis

Researched & compiled by Judy C. Ware 2011

First – connection from the Wares to the Madisons

Col. James Taylor + Martha Thompson     

they have:

Frances Thompson Taylor who marries Ambrose Madison

they have:

James Madison Sr. who marries Eleanor Rose Conway

they have:

President James Madison Jr. who marries Dorothy (Dolley) Payne Todd (She was the widow of John Todd)

Col. James Taylor + Martha Thompson

they have:

Erasmus Taylor who marries Jane Moore

they have:

Elizabeth Taylor who marries Andrew Glassell

they have:

John Glassell who marries Louisa Richard Brown

they have:

Frances Toy Glassell who marries Josiah William Ware (great grandson of James and Agnes Todd Ware)

Second - Connection from the Wares and Dolley’s line

George Payne + Mary Woodson

they have:

Josias Payne who marries Anne Fleming

they have:

John PAYNE who marries Mary Coles

they have:

Dolley Payne (Todd) Madison who marries James Madison 

** George Payne + Mary Woodson

they have:

Josias Payne who marries Anne Fleming

they have:

Robert Payne Sr. who marries Ann Burton

they have:

Susannah Payne who marries William WARE (son of John and Ann Ware and grandson of James and Agnes Todd Ware)

**George Payne + Mary Woodson

they have:

Josias Payne who marries Anne Fleming

they have:

Anna Payne who marries William Harrison (brother of John Ware’s wife, Ann Harrison)

they have:

Susannah Harrison who marries William Ware (son of John & Ann Ware and grandson of James and Agnes Todd Ware)

Another way of looking at it is: Ann and John Ware had a son named William Ware who married both his cousin Susannah by his Aunt Ann and Uncle Robert Payne & also his cousin Susannah by his Uncle William and Aunt Anna Payne Harrison.  They were all cousins with Dolley Madison.

Third – Another connection with the Wares and Dolley Todd Payne Madison and Patrick Henry, Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd, & Maj. George Steptoe Washington (a nephew of President Washington)

 Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Dolley’s parents were John Payne Jr. and Mary Coles Payne.  She had seven siblings:  Walter Payne, William Temple Payne, Isaac Payne, Lucy Payne Washington Todd, Anna Payne Cutts, Mary (Polly) Payne Jackson, and John C. Payne.  Her sister Lucy was first married to George Steptoe Washington, the nephew of the first President, and married secondly, Thomas Todd, a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Both sisters were also first cousins of Patrick Henry. (Ref. 2251)  Dolley first married John Todd and had two sons with him.  In 1793, both her husband and her infant son died on the same day of yellow fever.  Her mother wrote: “My Poor Dear Dolley . . . the same day [consigns] her dear husband and her little babe to the silent grave.” (Ref. 2376)

“The smitten Lucy [Payne] eloped to Virginia against her mother’s wishes and married George Steptoe Washington.”  (Ref. 2251)

#2251 According to First Ladies Fact Book by: Bill Harris, revised by Laura Ross, copyrights 2005 & 2009 Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York:    Young James Madison “knew that one of [Dolleys’] mother’s cousins, Patrick Henry, had served with him in Williamsburg.”

# 2376  According to  James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990 “One great-grandfather [of Dolley’s] was Isaac Winston, an early Quaker settler in Virginia and the grandfather of Patrick Henry.”  

Dolley’s father, John Payne, “lived for a time at Scotchtown, a plantation once owned by his wife’s cousin Patrick Henry.” (Ref. 2376)

Judge Thomas Todd married Lucy (Payne) Washington, the widow of Major George Steptoe Washington, a nephew of President Washington, and the youngest sister of Dolly Madison. Their children were: William J., Madisonia, and James Madison.  Todd died at his home near Frankfort, February 7, 1826, and was buried in the Innes family cemetery but later exhumed and reinterred in the State Cemetery at Frankfort.  Justice Thomas Todd was a cousin of Judge Harry Innes who married Nancy Webb, the granddaughter of James and Catherine Todd Ware by their daughter Mary (Polly) Ware and her husband Charles Webb.  

Cousins would marry again in the coming years when

“Charles Webb Innes, son of Harry and Nancy Webb Innes, married Mary W. Russell on April 5, 1849.  They were married at the Harrison County residence of her grandfather, Colonel T. Ware.” See below

Thompson Ware and Mary (Polly) Todd Ware Webb were both children of James and Caty Todd Ware.  Thompson’s daughter, Sally Ware, had married Robert Spotswood Russell on May 29, 1827.  His granddaughter was the bride, Mary W. Russell.  Thompson’s sister, Polly Ware Webb, had a daughter named Nancy who had married Harry Innes.  Polly’s grandson, Charles Webb Innes, was the groom.    

“In the years 1831-32, Henry Innes represented Kentucky in the state legislature. (Ref. 2201)  His cousin, Thomas Todd, would later be named by President Thomas Jefferson as a Justice of the Supreme Court.

“Dolley was . . . before the marriage, on March 29, of Lucy Washington to Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd.” (Ref. 2376)

# 2376  James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990. 

“There, too, were James and Harry Innes, each to have a distinguished legal career and to be associated in many ways with Madison in public life.” (Ref. 2376)

# 2201. Descendants of Reverend Beroald Innes of Inchstellie, compiled by Susan Innes Kitchens, 1994

#2376.  James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GOING BACK TO THE 1700’S

George Payne 1678 married Mary Woodson

They had Josias Payne born October 30,1705 Northam, Goochland, Virginia.  He died December 17, 1785 and was buried in Pittsylvania Co., VA.  Josias married Anne Fleming, born around 1709 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.  She died after 1778 in Goochland Co., Virginia.  Their children were:

William PAYNE, Josias PAYNE, George PAYNE, Susannah PAYNE, Agnes PAYNE, Tarleton PAYNE, Robert Sr. PAYNE, John PAYNE, and Anna PAYNE

For purposes of this paper, we are concentrating on the children highlighted in color. 

Robert Sr. PAYNE married Ann Burton & they had a daughter named Susannah who married William WARE after her cousin (Susannah Harrison Ware, his 1^st wife)) died.

John PAYNE married Mary Coles & had a daughter named Dolley Payne (Todd) Madison. 
Anna PAYNE born 27 Mar 1748 in Goochland Co., VA. married William HARRISON  - brother of Ann Harrison WARE b. 29 Nov 1739, d. 1811, Pittsylvania Co., VA.  Ann Harrison Ware was the wife of John Ware who was the son of James and Agnes Todd Ware.

Therefore, the children of John and Ann Ware would have been nephews & nieces of Robert & Ann Payne, John & Mary Payne, and also Anna & William Harrison.  They would have all been cousins with Dolley Payne who married John Todd and later James Madison      

Concerning Ann Burton Payne, the wife of Robert Payne Sr., it was written, “Relations include cousin Patrick Henry and her niece, Dolley Payne Madison.” (Ref. 894)

# 894.  Harrison-Payne-Ware Part IV & V from Pittsylvania County, Virginia Heritage 1161-2004  Submitted by Betty Fitzgerald, Raleigh, North Carolina. 

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John Ware (son of James and Agnes Todd Ware) married Ann (sometimes spelled Anne) Harrison who was the daughter of Andrew Harrison.  Her brother, William Harrison, married Anna Payne and he was the uncle of Dolley Payne. (Ref. 822, 823) 

One of the children of John and Ann Harrison Ware was a son named William Ware who married twice.  His first wife was his cousin Susanna Harrison, daughter of his mother’s brother, William Harrison.  When Susanna died, William Ware not only another first cousin, but she ALSO was named Susannah.  She was the daughter of Robert Payne and his wife, Ann Burton. (Ref.894B)   

Basically, Josias and Anne Fleming Payne had these 3 children - John, Anna, and Robert - - all Paynes.  John married Mary Coles & had a daughter named Dolley Payne (Todd) Madison.  Anna married William Harrison (brother of John Ware’s wife, Ann Harrison) & they had a daughter named Susannah Harrison who married William Ware (son of John & Ann Ware.)  Robert married Ann Burton & they had a daughter also named Susannah and she also married William Ware after her cousin (Susannah Harrison Ware) died.  

Col. James Taylor + Martha Thompson

they have:

Zachary Taylor who marries Elizabeth Lee

they have:

Richard Taylor who marries Sarah Dabney Strother

they have:

President Zachary Taylor who marries Margaret Smith 

Col. James Taylor + Martha Thompson

they have:

Zachary Taylor who marries Elizabeth Lee

they have:

Richard Taylor who marries Sarah Dabney Strother

they have:

President Zachary Taylor who marries Margaret Smith 

Col. James Taylor + Martha Thompson

they have:

Erasmus Taylor who marries Jane Moore

they have:

Elizabeth Taylor who marries Andrew Glassell

they have:

John Glassell who marries Louisa Richard Brown

they have:

The following is the lineage broken down with more detail, starting with the connection between the 3 sons of Col. James Taylor II:

 The 10 known children of Col. James Taylor II and Martha Thompson were as follows:

1.  Frances Thompson Taylor, born August 30, 1700 at Hanover, King & Queen Co., Virginia.  Married Ambrose Madison.

2.  James Taylor III, born March 30, 1703 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Alice Thornton; married Elizabeth McGrath.

3.  Martha Taylor, born January 27, 1702.  Married Col. Thomas Chew.

4.  Zachary Taylor, born April 17, 1707 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Elizabeth Lee.

5.  George Taylor, born February 17, 1710 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Rachael Gibson; married Sarah Taliaferro.

6.  Tabitha Taylor, born March 2, 1713 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Thomas Wild.

7.  Erasmus Taylor, born September 5, 1715 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Jane Moore.

8.  Hannah Taylor, born March 15, 1718 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Nicholas Battaile.

9.  Mildred Taylor, born December 11, 1724 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Richard Thomas.

10.      Margaret Taylor, Married Edward Tinsley.

The 3 children (in bold color print) of Col. James Taylor are the focus of this piece.

References:

Americans of Gentle Birth and their Ancestor," page 272

"Old New Kent County, Virginia," page 439/40

"Executive Journals of Council of Colonial Virginia," Vol 1, page 412, Vol 3, pages 322, 340

Colonial Families of the Southern States of America, page 506-7

Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Douglas, page 98: “He (Col. Taylor) was the father of Frances, wife of Ambrose Madison and grandmother of the President. He had four sons, James, George, Zachary, and Erasmus.”

Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. III, page 558.

#2374.  Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by: Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter, Taken from A History of St. Mark’s Parish by: Raleigh Travers Green, Culpeper, Virginia, 1900

2376.  James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990. 

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Frances Thompson Taylor (daughter of Col. James Taylor II), born August 30, 1700 at Hanover, King & Queen Co., VA.  Married Ambrose Madison, son of John Madison and Isabella Todd. 

“Ambrose Madison married Frances Taylor, sister of Zackary Taylor, who was the grandfather of Gen. Zackary Taylor, the President of the United States.”

According to James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990. 

“Frances Taylor’s family was prolific and energetic.  Her . . . four brothers, James III, Zachary, George, and Erasmus, had dozens of males heirs, which spread across Virginia and Kentucky.” (Ref. 2376)

The three known children of Frances Thompson Taylor and Ambrose Madison were as follows:

1.  James Madison Sr., born March 27, 1723 at Montpelier, Virginia.  Married Eleanor Rose Conway.  

2.  Elizabeth Madison, born June 14, 1725; baptized July 3, 1725 and the Godparents were James & Martha Taylor

     3.Frances Madison, born March 6, 1726

James Madison, Sr., born March 27, 1723 at Montpelier, Virginia.  Married Eleanor Rose Conway

The known children of James Madison Sr.and Eleanor (Nelly) Rose Conway were as follows:

According to James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990,

“James Madison, Sr. grew up with forty or more first cousins on his mother’s side, and they, together with their children, furnished a host of influential connections and companions for his son.” (Ref. 2376)

1.  President James Madison Jr., born March 6, 1751 in Port Conway, Caroline Co., Virginia.   Married Dorothy (Dolley) Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) daughter of John Payne and Mary Coles, September 15, 1794 in Jefferson Co., Virginia.  He died June 28, 1836 at Washington D.C. at age 85.

2. Francis Madison, born June 18, 1753  died 1800

3. Ambrose Madison, born January 27, 1755. Married Mary Willis Lee   Died 1793

4. Catlett Madison, born 1758.  Lived only 36 days

5. Nelly Madison, born February 14, 1760. Married Mr. Isaac Hite & settled in Winchester, Virginia   Died 1802

6. William Madison, born May 1, 1762   Married Frances Throckmorton       Died 1843

7. Sarah Madison, born August 17, 1764. Married Thomas Macon   Died 1843

8.  unnamed child (born & died 1766)

9. Elizabeth Madison, born February 19, 1768. Died age of 7

10. unnamed child (born & died 1770)

11. Rueben Madison, born September 19, 1771. Died age of 3

12. Frances Taylor Madison, born October 9, 1774. Married Dr Robert Rose   Died 1823  “Fanny, as she was called, was therefore, very much the baby of the family, and to her eldest brother, [James Madison] twenty-three years her senior, more like a daughter than a sister.” (Ref. 2376)

President James Madison and his wife, Dolley, had no children of their own.  They raised her son, Payne, from her first marriage to John Todd.

References:

Taken from the Madison family Bible Records, edited by Patricia P. Clark (Mrs. Clark is a member of the staff at the Virginia Historical Society.)

The Sarah Madison (Mrs. Sarah Catlett (Madison) Macon) Family Bible printed by Thomas Baskett in London in 1759, contains records of the Madison, Conway, and Macon families. Recorded on its pages are the births and death of James Madison, fourth president of the United States. The Bible which once belonged to his sister, was deposited in the Virginia Historical Society jointly by Mrs. Conway Macon Knox and Mrs. Malcolm Bridges of Richmond, Virginia, 25 Mar 1954.

2374.   Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by: Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter, Taken from A History of St. Mark’s Parish by: Raleigh Travers Green, Culpeper, Virginia, 1900

TAKEN FROM THE OFFICIAL MONPELIER TOUR SITE

If the Montpelier mansion is the heart of the museum property, the focal point of the celebration and interpretation of James Madison's life, then the Madison Family Cemetery must be regarded as the soul of the property. Within its walls lie the final resting places of not only the President, but all of his family, ancestors and descendants who called Montpelier home.  The seven earliest burials in the Madison Family Cemetery occurred between 1732 and 1775. All of these early graves were unmarked and were of family members directly related to President Madison: his grandfather Ambrose Madison; his grandmother, Frances Taylor Madison, who continued to reside at Mount Pleasant after her husband's death, and who died on November 25, 1761; and five siblings of James Madison, who died as infants or young children—a poignant reminder of the high mortality rate among children in the 18th century.

The first of these infant children of James, Sr., and Nelly Conway Madison was Catlett Madison, born "Saturday 18th of March 1758 at 3 o'Clock in the morning. Aged 36 days." In the ensuing years an unnamed male infant, who was born and died on the same day sometime in 1766 and a stillborn child were added to the burials in the cemetery. The family Bible describes the stillborn event in stark terms: "Mrs. Madison Deliver'd of a Still born Child July 12th 1770." In the summer of 1775, the lives of Elizabeth (age 7) and Reuben (age 3) were cut short by a dysentry epidemic that swept through Orange County.

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Zachary Taylor, (son of Col. James Taylor II), born April 17, 1707 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Elizabeth Lee on February 23, 1737

“One of the nearby Taylor plantations produced a steady stream of boys . . . while another produced girls almost as regularly.”  “The house nearest the Old Madison dwelling was that of Thomas and Martha Taylor Chew.”(Ref. 2376)

The four known children of Zachary Taylor and Elizabeth Lee were:

1.  Zachary Taylor Jr., married Alice Chew, daughter of Col. Thomas Chew and Martha Taylor.

2.  Hancock Taylor.  “He was a surveyor and one of the first Americans to descend the Ohio River.  In 1774 he was shot by an Indian.” (Ref. 2183)

3.  Colonel Richard Taylor, born April 12, 1741 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Sarah Dabney Strother.

4.  Elizabeth Taylor, married Thomas Bell

 Grave for Col. Taylor  

Colonel Richard, born April 12, 1741 in Orange Co., Virginia.  “Colonel Taylor, with his brother, Hancock, made the first recorded trading voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi from Pittsburg to New Orleans in 1769.” (Ref. 2183)   According to Hayden’s genealogy, “Col. Taylor was engaged in many of the most fiercely contested and bloody battles of the Revolutionary War.” (Ref. 2183)   Married Sarah Dabney Strother on August 20, 1779.  Their children were as follows:

1.    Richard Strother Taylor, born circa 1780.

2. Hancock Taylor, born circa 1781; married Elizabeth Hoard.
3. William Dabney Taylor, born 1782.
4. Zachary Taylor, born November 24, 1784 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Margaret Mackall Smith.
5. George Taylor, born circa 1790.
6. Elizabeth Lee Taylor, born 1792.
7. General Joseph Pannell Taylor, born May 4, 1796;  died June 29, 1864
8. Sarah Bayley Taylor, born 1799. Married __ Grey
9. Emily Taylor, born circa 1801.  Married __ Allison
10. Richard Strother Taylor.

President Zachary Taylor, born November 24, 1784 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Margaret Mackall Smith.  President Taylor (12^th President of the United States) is related to President James Madison, Jr. (4th President of the United States) through their maternal grandmother, Frances Taylor who married Colonel James Madison, Sr.'s father, Ambrose.

The known children of President Zachary Taylor and Margaret Smith were as follows:

Ann Mackall Taylor (1811-75); married Robert Wood
Sarah Knox Taylor (1814-35);  married Jefferson Davis
Octavia P. Taylor (1816-20);
Margaret Smith Taylor (1819-20);
Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Taylor (1824-1909); Married Col. Bliss
Richard Taylor (1826-79)

References:

2183. VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia by Rev. Horace E. Hayden, M. A.  Printed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1891 – copyrighted 1885. COMPLETE TAYLOR LINE

2374. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by: Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter, Taken from A History of St. Mark’s Parish by: Raleigh Travers Green, Culpeper, Virginia, 1900

#7  Erasmus Taylor, (son of Col. James Taylor II), born September 5, 1715 in Orange Co., Virginia.  Married Jane Moore.

According to James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990, 

“Erasmus Taylor had at least seven children, including Lucy, whose husband, the Reverend Alexander Balmain, married James and Dolley Madison in 1794. (Ref. 2376)

The seven children of Erasmus Taylor and Jane Moore were:

1.    Mildred Taylor, born December 18, 1751; married William Morton.

2. Elizabeth Taylor, born September 22, 1755; married Andrew Glassell.
3. Lucy Taylor, born December 13, 1757; married Rev. Alexander Balmain on October 31, 1786.
4. John Taylor, born October 26, 1760; married Ann Gilbert.
5. Robert Taylor, born April 29, 1763; married Frances Pendleton.
6. Jane Taylor, born March 2, 1766; married Charles Pitt Howard.
7. Frances Taylor, born December 16, 1783; married Garland Burnley

Elizabeth Taylor, born September 22, 1755; married Andrew Glassell.

The nine known children of Elizabeth Taylor and Andrew Glassell were as follows:

1.   Mildred Glassell, born June 21, 1778 married Rueben Smith

2.  John Glassell, born October 29, 1780 married Louisa Richard Brown

3.  Mary Kelton Glassell,  married Michael Wallace

4.  Helen Buchan Glassell, born July 28, 1785  married Daniel Grinnan Jr.

5.  Jane Moore Glassell, born  married Benjamin Cave

6.  James McMillan Glassell married Eudora Startwout

7.  Andrew Glassell married Susanna Thompson Thornton

8.  Robert Alexander Glassell  died before marriage

9.  William Erasmus Glassell married Margaret Ann Somerville and also

Harriet Scott

John Glassell married Louisa Richard Brown (and 2 others)

The children of John and Louisa Glassell were:

1.   Andrew McMillan Glassell, born October 29, 1807 Married Frances Ann Downing

2.  Frances Toy Glassell, born July 25, 1809   Married Josiah William WARE

3.  Marian Glassell, born April 16, 1811  died July 1849

4.  Elizabeth Taylor Glassell, born January 31, 1813  died May 7, 1829

5.  Cecelia Brown Glassell, born December 24, 1814   died December 18, 1817

6.  Louisa Brown Glassell, born October 4, 1816

When Louisa died, John Glassell remarried.  His 2^nd wife was Margaret Christian (Scott) Lee.  They added 2 more children to the family.

7.   Mildred Smith Glassell  Married Edward Covell

8.  John Glassell

“On September 15, 1794, his [Madison’s] cousin Lucy Taylor’s husband, the Reverend Alexander Balmain of Winchester, pronounced the solemn words that began forty-two years of devotion in marriage for James Madison and Dolley Payne Todd.”  (Ref. 2376)

Lucy Taylor Balmain was the sister of Elizabeth Taylor - the grandmother of Frances Toy Glassell (wife of Josiah WARE).  Frances and Josiah WARE named one of their daughters Lucy Balmain WARE after the Reverend Balmain.

References:

6.    VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A. Printed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1891 – copyrighted 1885.

2374. Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by: Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter, Taken from A History of St. Mark’s Parish by: Raleigh Travers Green, Culpeper, Virginia, 1900

2376.  James Madison by: Ralph Ketcham, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London,  1971 and revised 1990. 

ANOTHER BREAKDOWN FOR CLARIFICATION

CHILD #1   Frances Thompson Taylor, (daughter of Col. James Taylor II) born August 30, 1700, married Ambrose Madison.  One of her brothers was Zachary Taylor, born April 17, 1707, who married Elizabeth Lee.  Another brother was Erasmus Taylor, born September 5, 1715, who married Jane Moore.

 From the line of Frances and Ambrose Madison:

They had a son named James Madison, born March 27, 1723, who married Eleanor Rose Conway.  They had a son named James Madison Jr., born March 16, 1751, who became President of the United States.  He married Dorothy (Dolley) Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) daughter of John Payne and Mary Coles, September 15, 1794 in Jefferson Co., Virginia.  President James Madison and Dolley did not have any children of their own.

From the line of Zachary and Elizabeth Taylor 

CHILD #2  Zachary Taylor, born April 17, 1707, married Elizabeth Lee.  They had a son named Richard Taylor, born April 12, 1741, who married Sarah Dabney Strother.  Col. Richard Taylor and Sarah had a son named Zachary Taylor, born November 24, 1784, who became President of the United States.  He married Margaret Smith.  President Zachary Taylor and Margaret had a daughter named Sarah Knox Taylor who married Jefferson Davis.  President Taylor did not approve of the match, so the couple eloped and married on June 17, 1835.  While visiting Davis family in Louisiana, Sarah died of malaria just 3 months after the wedding.  Jefferson Davis spent the next 8 years as a recluse until 1845 when he married Varina Howell. 

From the line of Erasmus and Jane Taylor 

Child #3 Erasmus Taylor, born September 5, 1715, married Jane Moore.  Erasmus and Jane had a daughter named Elizabeth Taylor, born September 22, 1755, who married Andrew Glassell. She was the sister of Lucy Taylor, who was born December 13, 1757 and married Rev. Alexander Balmain on October 31, 1786. Erasmus Taylor was the father of both girls so both Elizabeth Taylor Glassell AND Lucy Taylor Balmain were cousins with President James Madison.

 ** note the references below confirming the “cousin” status between the Taylor sisters and President Madison.

**According to The Madisons: a Biography by: Virginia Moore, McGraw-Hill, 1221 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020, 1979

“Rev. Alexander Balmain of Winchester, a Revolutionary chaplain who had married Madison’s cousin Lucy Taylor, was alerted.  And there was whispering behind closed doors and the flash of needles.”

According to James Madison: a Biography by Ralph Louis Ketcham Publisher: University of Virginia Press, Published: March 22, 1990

“When other Virginia federalists learned of Madison’s victory, they congratulated him on having . . . where Madison visited with cousin Lucy Taylor Balmain, wife of the Winchester clergyman.”

According to Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by: Raleigh Travers Green and Philip Slaughter, Taken from A History of St. Mark’s Parish by: Raleigh Travers Green, Culpeper, Virginia, 1900

This diary “enables one to form a life-like conception on the animated social circle of which Orange C.H. was the center from 1786 to 1799.  The persons who figured in it were Erasmus, Robert, John, and other Taylors, whose name is legion, Col. James Madison Sr., Col. James Madison, Jr., (President), . . . Andrew and John Glassell, Ruben Smith, etc.”

#26 According to a letter written by Rev. Sigismund Stribling Ware, son of Josiah William Ware, in 1930

“Dr. Andrew Glassell was a most estimable physician and spent most of his life in Bowling Green, Virginia.  I know his descendants quite well.”

“Fannie Glassell was sent to school in Winchester and stayed at the Episcopal Rectory with Rev. Alexander Balmain who had married Fannie’s aunt, a Miss Lucy Taylor of Culpepper, in Orange.”  Lucy was the sister of Elizabeth Taylor mentioned below and Fannie Glassell married Josiah Ware.

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Elizabeth Taylor married Andrew Glassell and they had John Glassell, born October 29, 1780, who married Louisa Richard Brown.  John and Louisa had Frances Toy Glassell who married Josiah William Ware – thus bringing in the WARE connection.  The Ware children of Josiah and Frances were therefore distant cousins to both President Zachary Taylor and President James Madison as well.  

Example: Frances Toy Glassell Ware 

parents – John & Louisa Glassell

grandparents - Andrew and Elizabeth Taylor Glassell & her great aunt was Lucy Taylor Balmain.

great grandparents - Erasmus & Jane Taylor

great, great grandfather – Col. James Taylor II

Looking at it Generationally

Ambrose and Frances Thompson Taylor Madison were sibling and in-laws with Zachary and Elizabeth Lee Taylor and also Erasmus and Jane Moore Taylor.   

The Madison’s son, James Madison would have been 1^st cousins with Colonel Richard Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor Glassell.

President James Madison Jr. would have been cousins with President Zachary Taylor and John Glassell

Mrs. Jefferson Davis (Sarah Knox Taylor)  would have been cousins with Frances Toy Glassell Ware – wife of Josiah Ware

INTERESTING NOTE FOR FURTHER DOWN THE SMITH AND GLASSELL FAMILY TREE 

Elizabeth Taylor, born September 22, 1755; married Andrew Glassell.

The nine known children of Elizabeth Taylor and Andrew Glassell were as follows:

1.  Mildred Glassell, born June 21, 1778 married Rueben Smith who had George A. Smith who married Julia Somerville.  Their daughter, Jane Morton Smith, married James Alexander Ware, son of Josiah William Ware and Frances Glassell Ware.

2.  John Glassell, born October 29, 1780 married Louisa R. Brown.  They had Frances Toy Glassell who married Josiah William Ware.  They had James Alexander Ware who married his cousin, Jane Morton Smith

3.  Mary Kelton Glassell,  married Michael Wallace

4.  Helen Buchan Glassell, born July 28, 1785  married Daniel Grinnan Jr.

5.  Jane Moore Glassell, born  married Benjamin Cave

6.  James McMillan Glassell married Eudora Startwout

7.  Andrew Glassell married Susanna Thompson Thornton

8.  Robert Alexander Glassell  died before marriage

9.  William Erasmus Glassell married Margaret Ann Somerville and also

Harriet Scott  

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