Colonel Edwin Conway

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• FamilySearch ID: L5YB-49M
• Initiatory (LDS): 14 Feb 1928, SLAKE

Edwin married Elizabeth Thornton on 21 May 1695 in Orange, Virginia, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Francis Thornton and Alice Stafford Savage) was born on 3 Jan 1674 in Gloucester, Virginia, United States; died in Dec 1732 in King George, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L8T4-L95
• Initiatory (LDS): 16 Feb 1928, SLAKE

Francis married Rebecca Catlett on 21 Oct 1717 in Caroline, Virginia, United States. Rebecca (daughter of Colonel John Catlett, Jr and Mary Elizabeth Gaines) was born on 27 Dec 1702 in Essex, Virginia, United States; died on 6 Mar 1760 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, United States; was buried in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): 19 Mar 2008, BOISE

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• Initiatory (LDS): 31 Jul 2002, ARIZO

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• Initiatory (LDS): 28 Jan 2016, KANSA

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• Initiatory (LDS): 30 Apr 1947, LOGAN

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• Initiatory (LDS): 8 Apr 1960, LANGE

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• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED
• FamilySearch ID: KZ4L-B5C

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• FamilySearch ID: LH6Z-96G
• Initiatory (LDS): 5 Apr 2011, HAWAI

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• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Jul 2016, KANSA

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• FamilySearch ID: LTKC-VJS
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Sep 1935, ARIZO

Eleanor married Colonel James Madison on 15 Sep 1749 in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, United States. James (son of Ambrose Henry Madison and Frances Thompson Taylor) was born on 27 Mar 1723 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, United States; was christened on 21 Apr 1723 in King and Queen, Virginia, United States; died on 27 Feb 1801 in Montpelier, Orange, Virginia, United States; was buried in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZTD-MFS
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Mar 1998, JRIVE

Notes:

James Madison, America’s fourth President (1809-1817), made a major cont r ibution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federali s t Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years , h e was referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.”

At his inauguration, James Madison, a small, wizened man, appeared old a n d worn; Washington Irving described him as “but a withered little apple -J ohn.” But whatever his deficiencies in charm, Madison’s … wife Dolle y com pensated for them with her warmth and gaiety. She was the toast o f Washin gton.

Born in 1751, Madison was brought up in Orange County, Virginia, and att e nded Princeton (then called the College of New Jersey). A student of hi st ory and government, well-read in law, he participated in the framing o f t he Virginia Constitution in 1776, served in the Continental Congress , an d was a leader in the Virginia Assembly.

When delegates to the Constitutional Convention assembled at Philadelphi a , the 36-year-old Madison took frequent and emphatic part in the debate s.

Madison made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constituti o n by writing, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalist essa ys . In later years, when he was referred to as the “Father of the Consti tut ion,” Madison protested that the document was not “the off-spring o f a si ngle brain,” but “the work of many heads and many hands.”

In Congress, he helped frame the Bill of Rights and enact the first reve n ue legislation. Out of his leadership in opposition to Hamilton’s finan ci al proposals, which he felt would unduly bestow wealth and power upo n nor thern financiers, came the development of the Republican, or Jeffer sonian , Party.

As President Jefferson’s Secretary of State, Madison protested to warri n g France and Britain that their seizure of American ships was contrar y t o international law. The protests, John Randolph acidly commented, ha d th e effect of “a shilling pamphlet hurled against eight hundred ship s of wa r.”

Despite the unpopular Embargo Act of 1807, which did not make the bellig e rent nations change their ways but did cause a depression in the Unite d S tates, Madison was elected President in 1808. Before he took office t he E mbargo Act was repealed.

During the first year of Madison’s Administration, the United States pro h ibited trade with both Britain and France; then in May, 1810, Congres s au thorized trade with both, directing the President, if either would a ccep t America’s view of neutral rights, to forbid trade with the other n ation .

Napoleon pretended to comply. Late in 1810, Madison proclaimed non-inter c ourse with Great Britain. In Congress a young group including Henry Cl a y and John C. Calhoun, the “War Hawks,” pressed the President for a mo r e militant policy.

The British impressment of American seamen and the seizure of cargoes im p elled Madison to give in to the pressure. On June 1, 1812, he asked Con gr ess to declare war.

The young Nation was not prepared to fight; its forces took a severe tro u ncing. The British entered Washington and set fire to the White House a n d the Capitol.

But a few notable naval and military victories, climaxed by Gen. Andre w J ackson’s triumph at New Orleans, convinced Americans that the War o f 181 2 had been gloriously successful. An upsurge of nationalism resulte d. Th e New England Federalists who had opposed the war–and who had eve n talke d secession–were so thoroughly repudiated that Federalism disappe ared a s a national party.

In retirement at Montpelier, his estate in Orange County, Virginia, Madi s on spoke out against the disruptive states’ rights influences that by t h e 1830’s threatened to shatter the Federal Union. In a note opened aft e r his death in 1836, he stated, “The advice nearest to my heart and dee pe st in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished an d per petuated.”

James married Dolley Payne on 15 Sep 1794 in Harewood Manor, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, United States. Dolley (daughter of John Parish Payne and Mary Winston Coles) was born on 20 May 1768 in New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, United States; died on 12 Jul 1849 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; was buried on 16 Jul 1849 in Mountpelier Estate National Historic Site, Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LCMG-6CB
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Sep 1935, ARIZO

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• Initiatory (LDS): 3 Mar 1949, LOGAN

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• Initiatory (LDS): Not Needed
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• FamilySearch ID: LZFK-R42
• Initiatory (LDS): 1 Oct 1935, ARIZO

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• FamilySearch ID: LHBP-HW1
• Initiatory (LDS): 12 Apr 1948, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LWYK-SVF
• Initiatory (LDS): 1 Oct 1935, ARIZO

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• FamilySearch ID: 21RP-399

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• FamilySearch ID: LZTD-MPT
• Initiatory (LDS): 26 Sep 1935, ARIZO