John Madison Genealogy
Record modified: 2022-08-17
This is my ancestor 10 generations back.
Born: about 1625-00-00 Gloucester, England
Died: (unknown) St Stephens, New Kent Co, Virginia USA
Marriages:
1. 1660-00-00 Maria Ambrose
Children of John Madison and Maria Ambrose:
Notes:
He was a ship's carpenter. Immigrated in 1653
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other children:
Henry
Ann
Mary
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A tree that no longer exists showed:
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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Another one said:
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.
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Old Rappahannock Co VA Deed Book 7 p26
... I John Maddison of the county of New Kent in St Stephen parish ship carpenter... for the
sume of three thousand pounds and five hundred of sweet scented tob'o... do... sell...
unto Thomas Williamson... of the county of Rapp'ac and parish of ffarnham two hundred
and eighty acres of land in the county and parish afore'sd...
this twenty fourth of September one thousand six hundred and eighty...
John Madison (seal)
witness:
John Pigg
Robert Clifford
[recorded 1683-04-04]
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 4314
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