Ancestry of
James Madison

4th U.S. President

Martha Thompson

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• • Great-grandmother of James Madison — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Roger Thompson 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1679 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Nov 1762 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Greenfield Cemetery, Orange Co. (now Culpeper Co.), Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • James Taylor Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1699 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Frances Taylor (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  Zachary Taylor

  Erasmus Taylor

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Martha as the daughter of Col. William Thompson, son of Sir Roger Thompson. More research is needed to verify her parentage.

• Sources for Martha Thompson

  • ¹ Publications of the Southern History Association, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 167.
  • ² The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Virginia Historical Society, OCT 1946, Vol. 54, No. 4, Page 339.
  • ³ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 247, 257, 400, 403.
  • ⁴ Casey, Albert Eugene, Southern Taylor Families, 1607-1830, Birmingham, Alabama: Published and bound privately for the Amite County Historical Fund (1958), 131-132.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 513.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 57.
  • ⁷ Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 111, 164.
  • ⁸ Watson, Annah Robinson, Some Notable Families of America, New York: n.p. (1898), 26.