Glossary: 1793-1800
ADAMS, John (1735-1826). Revolutionary, diplomat, political theorist, signer of the Declaration of Independence, first vice president of the United States under George Washington, and second president, 1797-1801. In 1764 he married Abigail Smith. The couple had five children, including John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States.
ADET, Pierre August (1763-1832?). French chemist and diplomat, French minister to the United States in 1795.
BLOUNT, William (1749-1800). Superintendent of Indian Affairs 1790-1796, upon the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union Blount was elected to the United States Senate. He served from August 2, 1796, until he was found guilty ‘of a high misdemeanor’ and was expelled from the Senate July 8, 1797. Impeachment proceedings were instituted but they were dismissed.
BRENT, Richard (1757-1814). A Republican United States Representative and Senator from Virginia, he was the nephew of Daniel Carroll.
BULKELEY, Thomas. He was the son of John Bulkeley, a wealthy British merchant living in Lisbon.
BUCKLEY, Mrs. The wife of Thomas Bulkeley.
BURR, Theodosia Bartow Prevost (1746-1794). Wife of Aaron Burr.
CERACCHI, Giuseppe (1751-1801). Italian sculptor who visited the United States in the 1790s and executed busts of a number of great American revolutionaries, including JM. He was the most important Italian sculptor to come to the US during the 1790s and introduced the portrait bust to America.
The Society of CINCINNATUS. It was a fraternal association of George Washington's Revolutionary War officers.
COLES, Isaac Col., Sr. (1747-1813). Representative from Virginia, during much of his political career he lived on a plantation on Staunton River at Coles Ferry, Halifax County. In 1798 he moved to Pittsylvania County and was elected to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791), the Third Congress and the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797).
COLES, John (1745-1808). A farmer and planter.
COLES, Rebecca E. (1750-1826). Wife of John Coles.
COLLINS, Mary Parish (1738-1808). Mother of Elizabeth Collins Lee, she was the sister of Isaac Parish and married Stephen Collins in Philadelphia in 1761. Stephen Collins (1733-1794) was a Philadelphia Quaker merchant, and an American Revolutionary war sympathizer.
CRESSON, Jeremiah (1738-1800). Possibly a Philadelphia joyner and chair maker who was also a private, first company, in the Philadelphia militia roughly between 1778 and 1781.
CUTTS, Anna Payne 91779-1832). Younger sister of Dolley Payne Madison, she lived with Dolley Payne Madison in Philadelphia and Washington until she married Congressman Richard Cutts in 1804. The two had seven children: James Madison Cutts, Thomas Cutts, Walter Coles Cutts, Richard Cutts, Dolley Payne Madison Cutts, Mary E. E. Cutts, and Richard D. Cutts.
DAWSON, John (1762-1814). A Virginia Republican representative to the Fifth Congress in 1797, and the succeeding eight Congresses.
DEVEZE, Jean (1753-1829). A French doctor who was the principal physician of the military hospital established by the French in Philadelphia. He wrote An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes, and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till afterwards the middle of December, 1793 (Philadelphia, 1794).
FATIO, Felipe. A member of a well-known family from St. Augustine, Florida, then a Spanish possession, who moved to Philadelphia in 1794.
FAUCHET, Jean Antoine Joseph (b. 1763). French Minister to the United States, 1794 and 1796.
FISHER, Thomas (1741-1810). A Philadelphia Quaker merchant who was exiled to VA during revolutionary war, he was a founding member of American Philosophical Society and a manager of the Pennsylvania.
GENET, Edmond Charles (1763-1834). A French minister who was sent to the United States in 1793. After President Washington demanded Genet’s recall home, his government fell and Genet remained in the US and married the daughter of Governor George Clinton, NY.
HALL, Eleanor. Daughter of Col. Thomas Hartley of York, PA, a revolutionary soldier, lawyer, and politician, she was also the wife of Dr. James Hall. The two were wed in 1787.
HALL, Dr.James. A Philadelphia doctor who was first apprenticed to, and then a partner of, Benjamin Rush.
HALLOWELL, John
HAMILTON, Alexander (1755-1804). Lawyer, Revolutionary war commander under George Washington, Secretary of the Treasury (1789-1795), Federalist party political leader, he was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
HARPER, Robert Goodloe (1765-1825). A Federalist representative from South Carolina and a Senator from Maryland, he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1798 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William Blount, a Senator from Tennessee. He later moved to Baltimore, Md., where he engaged in the practice of law and then served in the War of 1812, attaining the rank of major general and was then elected from Maryland to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1815.
HERVEY, Margaret. Payne family nurse.
HONYMAN, Robert (1747-1824). Originally from Scotland, he immigrated to Virginia in the 1770s and settled in Hanover County as a doctor. He probably knew Dolley Payne Madison Lucy Coles Winston.
JACKSON, John G. (1777-1825). Politician, he was a congressman from western (now West) Virginia. In 1800 he married Mary Payne Jackson. He was a staunch supporter of James Madison, and in 1819 became United States district judge for the western district of Virginia.
JACKSON, Mary Payne (1781-1808). Youngest sister of Dolley Payne Mdison, she married John G. Jackson in 1800.
JAUDENNES, Jose de. He was the Spanish minister to the United States until he was replaced by Carlos Fernando Martinez Yrujo.
JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Revolutionary, political theorist, author of the Declaration of Independence, politician, and Virginia planter, Jefferson served as minister to France, member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, vice president to John Adams, and president of the United States. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton. They had two daughters who survived into adulthood, Martha Jefferson Randolph and Mary Jefferson Eppes, and grandchildren.
LAW, Eliza Parke Custis (1776-1832). The eldest grandchild of George and Martha Washington, she married Thomas Law in 1796. The two were legally separated in 1804. Thomas Law financially supported her and their daughter, Eliza, and both Laws largely resided in Washington, D.C.
LAWRENCE, John. A resident of Philadelphia in 1794.
LEE, Elizabeth Collins (Eliza) (1770-1858). The daughter of a wealthy Quaker Philadelphia merchant, Stephen Collins, and the wife of the Virginia Federalist congressman Richard Bland Lee.
LEE, Flora Lee (1770-1795). A member of the large Virginia Lee family, she was the granddaughter of Thomas Lee of Stratford and through him inherited “Belmont,” an estate in northern Virginia, sometime after 1799. She married her cousin, Ludwell Lee. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Steptoe (ca. 1741-1789) and Philip Ludlow Lee (see genealogical chart in Nagel’s book on Lee family).
LEE, Ludwell (1760-1836). Son of Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he married his cousin, Flora Lee. In 1781 he served as aide de camp to General Lafayette, and was a member of the Virginia General Assembly. He was related to the Steptoe family.
LEE, Richard Bland (1761-1827). Husband of Eliza Collins Lee, he was a Federalist congressman from 1789 to 1895. In 1815 James Madison appointed him commissioner of war claims and the Lees moved to Washington, D.C.
LITTLE, Ruth James. Daughter of John James, ship owner and business man who had various business ventures with Stephen Girard.
LISTON, Henrietta Marchant (d. 1828). Daughter of Nathaniel Marchant of Jamaica, she married Robert Liston in 1796. The couple had no children.
LISTON, Robert (1742-1836). British minister to the U.S. from 1796 to 1800.
MCKEAN, Thomas (1734-1817). Father of Sally McKean Yrujo he was a lawyer, statesman, signer of Declaration of Independence, and a governor of Pennsylvania.
MADISON, James (1751-1836). Political thinker, politician, and Virginia planter, he married Dolley Payne Todd in 1794. He served as Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson and was president of the United States between 1809 and 1817.
MAYO, Abigail DeHart (d. 1843). Wife of Colonel John Mayo and mother of Maria Mayo Scott.
NEW, Col. Anthony (1747-1833). A colonel in the Virginia militia, 1780-1781, he was member of Congress from Virginia between 1793-1805 and from Kentucky between 1811-13 and 1821-23.
PAINE, Thomas (1737-1809). A British born Quaker, he emmigrated to North America in 1774, where he became a write, publicist and revolutionary. His most famous work was Common Sense, published in 1776.
PAINE’S Book: Rights of Man (1792)
PARKE, Harriot Washington. Younger sister of George Steptoe Washington, she later married Thomas Parkes of Baltimore.
PAYNE, Isaac. Brother of Dolley Payne Madison who died early.
PAYNE, Mary Coles (1745-1807). Mother of Dolley Payne Madison, she was the daughter of William Coles and Lucy Winston Coles and married John Payne in 1761.
PAYNE, Walter. Eldest brother of Dolley Payne Madison.
PICKERING, Timothy (1745-1829). A revolutionary war officer, cabinet officer, congressman, and senator, Pickering was a Federalist from Massachusetts. He was George Washington’s second secretary of state and remained in that post under John Adams, where he proved himself intensely anti-French and undermined Adam’s support. During the War of 1812 he opposed James Madison’s policies. He was married to Rebecca White.
PRESTON, Francis Smith (1765-1836). U.S. Representative from Virginia (1793-1797), he eventually settled in Abingdon, Virginia, where he resumed the practice of law. He was the father of William Campbell Preston.
PRESTON, William Campbell (1794-1860). Son of Francis Smith Preston and Sarah Buchanan Campbell Preston, he was born in Philadelphia. He became a United States Senator and a college president.
RANDOLPH, Martha (Patsy) Jefferson (1772-1836). Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Jefferson, in 1790 she married her second cousin, Thomas Mann Randolph. The couple had eleven children.
RUSSEL, Thomas. Possible a wealthy Boston merchant.
SELDON, Miles. A member of a Virginia planter family, alternatively spelled Seldon and Selden, he was perhaps a Petersburg, VA, merchant who died 1814.
SMITH, Judith Richardson (1763-1852). Wife of Judge Charles Smith of New Kent, Virginia, she was born in Hanover County, Virginia. According to Richardson family legend, Dolley Payne Madison’s mother was a close friend of Judith Richardson Smith’s grandmother.
SMITH, William Loughton (1758-1812). A Federalist representative from South Carolina in the 1790, he was appointed the U.S. minister to Portugal and Spain in 1797, where he served for two years.
STEVENSON, Sarah (Sally) Coles. A cousin of Dolley Payne Madison, she married Andrew Stevenson, planter, politician and diplomat.
SWANWICK, John (1759-1798). A banker, merchant, and Republican politician, he went bankrupt in 1797 and died of yellow fever the following year. He was a member of Congress from 1795 until his death.
THOMPSON , James. Father of Catherine Thompson Coles, he was born in Dublin, Ireland, and settled in New York City.
TODD, Alice Poultney (1768-1868?). The daughter of Thomas Poultney and Elizabeth Smith, she married James Todd, Dolley Payne Madison’s brother-in-law by her first marriage.
TODD, James (? – 1805). Husband of Alice Todd and brother of John Todd, Jr., he was a Philadelphia bank official who in 1803 began embezzling money until he fled to Georgia in 1805.
TODD, John Jr. (1763-1793). The first husband of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, he was a young Quaker lawyer and the son of John Todd, Sr. He died in 1793 of yellow fever.
TODD, John, Sr. He was a master of the Mathematical School in Philadelphia and a disciplinarian.
TODD, John Payne (1792-1852). The sole surviving son of Dolley Payne Madison by her marriage to John Todd, Jr., Payne Todd was dissipated and lacking in self discipline. He was also charming and persuasive and as a young man attractive looking. He drained the Madisons of money through his endless debts.
TODD, Lucy Payne Washington (1777?-1846). Younger sister of Dolley Payne Washington, vivacious and charming, in 1792 she married George Steptoe Washington and in 1812 Judge Thomas Todd of Kentucky. With her first husband she had four children, George Washington, Samuel Walker Washington, William Temple Washington, and George Steptoe Washington. With her second husband she had three more children, Dorothea Madisonia Todd, William Johnston Todd, and James Madison Todd.
TODD, Mary (d. 1793). She was the mother of John Todd jr., and the wife of John Todd Sr.
TODD, William Temple (1793). Youngest child of John Todd, Jr., and Dolley Payne Todd Madison, he died in infancy.
VALLIANT, Francois Le (1753-1824). He was a French explorer and ornithologist.
VIAR, Jose Ignacio de. A Spanish diplomat, he was a special envoy to the United States from Spain in 1788 and then in the 1790s was commissioner and consul general from Spain.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Commander of the American Army during the War of Independence and first president of the United States, Washington was born and raised in Virginia. He married a wealthy widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, in 1759.
WEST, William (1724-1808). Probably the brother of the painter Benjamin West, a Quaker, he was married twice and had nine children.
WILKINS, William. A Philadelphia who was Dolley Payne Madison’s suitor, legal counsel, and friend.
WILLIAMS, Jonathan (1750-1815). He was probably a merchant, army officer, and nephew of Benjamin Franklin who after 1785 lived in Philadelphia as a well-to-do merchant, and an associate of Robert Morris.
WILLIAMS, William (1765-1850). A doctor, in 1800 he married the sister of John G. Jackson, Catherine Jackson.
WINSTON, Isaac. He was the husband of Lucy Coles Winston, and the son of Isaac Winston and Marianne Fontaine.
WOLCOTT, Elizabeth Stoughton (1726-1797). The wife of Oliver Wolcott and a friend of Abigail Adams
WOLCOTT, Oliver (1760-1833). The son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he became Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington in February 1795. From 1797 to 1800 Wolcott enjoyed the confidence of President John Adams, while in secret conspiring with Timothy Pickering and James Henry against Adams.
YRUJO, Carlos Fernando Martinez, Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Chevalier (1763-1824). Spanish diplomat, he was appointed minister to the United States in 1795. In 1798 he married Sally McKean Yrujo. He was recalled to Spain in 1807 after it had become clear that his continuing presence in the United States had become an irritant to Spanish-American relations.
YRUJO, Sara (Sally) McKean (1777-1841). Daughter of Pennsylvania politician Thomas McKean, in 1798 she married the Spanish minister to the United States, Carlos Fernando Martinez Yrujo.
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