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James M. Owens Collection of Madison Family Material, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William
and Mary.
Correspondence, notes, typescripts, and genealogical charts of James M. Owens concerning genealogy of the Madison family of
Virginia with emphasis on President James Madison and Bishop James Madison. Includes photocopies of letters of President James
Madison and Bishop James Madison; and two original letters, 1804 and 1832, of James Madison and one, 1846, of John Quincy
Adams.
See other papers by Bishop James Madison; Bishop James Madison Letter to John Norton, 1776, Bishop James Madison Letter to
William White, 1795, Bishop James Madison Letter to James Breckiridge, 1805, Office of the President, James Madison, 1775-1979
(UA 2.03), Petition of the President and Professors, 1787 (UA 96), and the Bishop James Madison Papers (Mss. 65 Pst). See
also; James Madison Papers, Duke University Libraries.
Scope and Contents Original letters by James Madison (1751-1836) and John Quincy Adams, and letters to Dr. Calvin Jones of
Smithfield, North Carolina; correspondence (1933-1953) of James M. Owens concerning the Madison family; incomplete manuscript
drafts by James Owens.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id153776
Gov. B. Williams, Raleigh, North Carolina, to Dr. Calvin Jones, Smithfield, North Carolina
1801 June 9
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Describes his affliction by the disease yaws and the promises of cure by Dr. Farrell.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id153779
Gen. W. Davie, Haliafax, North Carolina, to Dr. Calvin Jones, Smithfield, North Carolina
1802 July 14
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Asks Dr. Jones to assist him in finding a "gentleman of the medical society"to reside at the university
in order to teach medical students to maintain a practice in the area.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id153780
James Madison, Washington, D.C., to Mr. Worthington, Chilicothe, Ohio.
1804 March 27
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Will consider Worthington's suggestion for a second press in Ohio to print copies of the laws.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id153781
To Mrs. General Jones
1820 July 3
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Printed invitation to a "Celebration Ball"on July 4.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id153782
James Madison, Montpellier, Virginia, to Thomas Marshall, Richmond, Virginia
1832 March 14
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Marshall's pamphlet "On the Abolition of Slavery"and praises its style and content.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id153783
John Quincy Adams, Washington, D.C., to Calvin Jones, Bolivar?, West Tennessee.
1846 April 6
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Defines the French word "brimborion"used in his father's letters.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id153784
Correspondence between James M. Owens, Lessie Madison Garrett, and others concerning the history and genealogy of the Madison
family
1933-1939
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id153785
Correspondence between James M. Owens, Lessie Madison Garrett, and others concerning the history and genealogy of the Madison
family.
1940-1953
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id153786
Miscellaneous, incomplete drafts by Owens, concerning James Madison and political institutions in the U.S.; Celts and Romans
in ancient Britain.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id153787
Miscellaneous, incomplete drafts by Owens, concerning Bishop James Madison as a correspondent; early members of the Madison
family in Virginia.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id153788
Miscellaneous, incomplete drafts by Owens, concerning the Church in colonial Virginia; members of the Madison family in Virginia.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id153789
Box 2
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Completed manuscripts, some untitled, by James Owens on the Madison family and its history, William and
Mary College under Bishop Madison, and gardens of Williamsburg; eleven photographs.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id153790
Three manuscripts by Owens: "William and Mary Under Bishop Madison," "John Madison," and "The Westward Advance and the American
Revolution."
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id153791
Two untitled manuscripts by Owens, concerning a broadside announcing the formation of a Constitutional Scoeity; early 17th
century colonization of Virginia and the role of the Madison family in it.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id153792
"James Madison, D.D." by Owens
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id153793
"They Were Like This: The Origin and Development of an American Family" by Owens
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id153794
"The Madisons of Virginia: Their Background in England and Their Place in Early American Life"by Owens.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id153795
"Descendants of John Madison and Isabella Minor Todd Madison His Wife"by Owens.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id153796
"Was Bishop Madison a Pupil at James Maury's School in Albemarle?" by Owens
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id153797
"Possible Line of Descent of Sally Tait Madison, Wife of Rt. Rev. James Madison, D.D." by Owens.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id153798
"Some Gardens of Williamsburg, Virginia and of the Adjacent James River Region" by Owens
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id153803
"The Family of John White of Charlotte County, Virginia, Whose Daughter, Martha, on May 5, 1764 Lunenburg County, Va. married
Henry Madison of the Same County"by Owens
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id153805
Typed copies concerning the formation of a Constitutional Society announced in a broadside and commentary upon it; a eulogy
of Bishop James Madison.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id153806
"Memorial Service at St. John's Episcopal Church, Halifax, Virginia" by Owens?
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id153807
"James Madison, D.D." by Owens.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id153808
"A Sketch of My Own Immediate Family. Written for My Grandchildren," by Charles Lewis Scott and "Introduction, by Rev. James
M. Owens, D.D."
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id153810
11 photographs, including 1 photo of Verville, Corotoman Bay, Va., possibly built by Dr. James Madison c. 1680-1690; 5 photographs
of The Mount, home of the Todd family, King and Queen County, Va.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id153811
Box 3
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Typescripts by James Owens entitled "The Madisons of Virginia and Some Allied Family Names," "The Madisons
of Virginia: Their Background in England and Their Place in Early American Life," and "Madison Backgrounds: a Survey of Family
Origins and of Probable Family Relationships in Virginia During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"in three parts.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id153817
Box 4
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Photostats of James Madison correspondence (1788-89, 1831, and undated); photostats of letters written
by Bishop James Madison (1776, 1780-1803); photostats of letters to Bishop Madison from Henry St. George Tucker (1811); photostats
of letters written by James Madison, Sr. (1794-95); photostat of lectures given by Bishop Madison at William and Mary (1796)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id153824
9 photostats of autographed signed letters written to James Madison, Jr., by E. Carrington, James Madison, Sr., and others
January-February 1788
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Some photostats are from the Library of Congress
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id153827
6 photostats of autographed signed letters written to James Madison, Jr., by E. Carrington, James Madison, Sr., and others.
1788 April-1789
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Some photostats are from the Library of Congress
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id153829
4 photostats of autographed signed letters written by James Madison, Jr., to Robert Walsh and to George Washington
1831 and undated
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents One photostat is from the Library of Congress
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id153831
8 photostats (negative and positive) of autographed signed letters written by Bishop James Madison to Edmund Randolph, James
Madison, Jr. ?, and others
1776, 1780-1783
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Two photostats are from the American Philosophical Society Library
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id153834
10 photostats (negative and positive) of autographed signed letters written by Bishop James Madison to Edmund Randolph and
James Madison, Jr.
1785-1789
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id153835
13 photostats (negative and positive) of autographed signed letters written by Bishop James Madison to James Madison, Jr.
1791-1803
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7 id153837
3 photostats written by Henry St. George Tucker to Bishop James Madison; and a photostat copy of "Heads of Lectures on Natural
Philosophy"given by Bishop Madison at William and Mary College.
1796, 1811
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8 id153838
Photostatic copies of autographed signed letters by James Madison, Sr., to John Lee from the Crittenden and the Jospeh Jones
manuscript collections, Ducke University Library.
1794-1795
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id154302
Box 5
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Photocopies of materials relating to James Madison and Bishop Madison, including copies of "Madison and
Religion... by Themistius"(1811) and "Manifestations of the Beneficence of the Divine Providence... by Bishop Madison"(1795);
genealogical charts and pedigrees.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id154303
Photostats of a broadside announcing the formation of a Constitutional Society by James Madison, Jr. ,Edmund Randolph, James
Monroe, (Bishop) James Madison, and others; and a copy of the Society's minutes for June, 1784.
1784
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id154304
Photocopies of a pamphlet and newspaper articles concerning a debt owed to Gabriel Jones by Thomas Jefferson and the controversy
surrounding this transaction
1802-1803
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id154305
Genealogical charts, scrapbooks, and pedigrees of the Madison family, compiled by various persons; also, a sketch map of landholdings
in Nomini Cliffs on the Potomac River.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 id154307
Box 6
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous notes taken by James Owens on slips of paper, in notebooks, and in folders on the Madison genealogy
Mixed Materials Box: 7 id154308
Box 7
Scope and Contents
Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "James Madison as Bishop"
Mixed Materials Box: 8 id154309
Box 8
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "James Madison of Orange County"
Mixed Materials Box: 9 id154311
Box 9
Scope and Contents
Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "Bishop Madison and Allied Families"
Mixed Materials Box: 10 id154312
Box 10
Scope and Contents
Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "Madison Family - Miscellaneous Items."
Mixed Materials Box: 11 id154313
Box 11
Scope and Contents
Card file of notes taken by James Owens on miscellaneous subjects related to the Madison family history
Mixed Materials Box: 12 id154314
Box 12
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Card file of notes taken by James Owens on miscellaneous subjects related to the Madison family history
Mixed Materials Box: 13 id154316
Box 13
Scope and Contents
Photostatic copy of "Maddison Family Pedigree and Royal Descents by A.R. Maddison, M.A., Canon of Lincoln Cathedral."
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