Humphrey Madison: Robin's Roots

1730 - 1756 (26 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Humphrey Madison was born on 25 Apr 1730 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA (son of Thomas Madison and Johanna Buckner??); died on 12 Sep 1756 in Jackson River, Bath County, Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: Nov 1749, Caroline County, Virginia, USA; Humphrey Madison witness to deed Stone to Bowler. This record is among several for other Madisons, such as Roger and Thomas, and helps support the notion that Humprey was in their family
Possessions: 3 Aug 1753, Cloverdale, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; Sold land says on Buffalo Creek in or about Roanoke, VA (present-day Botetourt County, just north Cloverdale, a suburb of Roanoke)
Military: 1756, Bath County, Virginia, USA; Ensign in Dickinson's Rangers of the Virgina Militia
Probate: 15 Dec 1756, Augusta County, Virginia, USA; Adam Dickinson gave bound for the adminisration of the estate of Humphrey Madison. Security given by Wallace Estill and Daniel Harrison. [Augusta Co., Va, Will Book 2, page 180]

Notes:

Humphrey Madison's origins are obscure. I know of no contemporaneous documentation of his parents. He is almost always presented as a grandson of President James Madison's great-grandfather, John Madison, Jr (1640-1705). Most online trees and stories list Humphrey as the son of John Madison III and John's first wife Eliza Minor (whose origins appear to be completely undocumented). He is listed as a son of John Madison III's brother Thomas in only a couple of resources that I've found, including the 1903 book Reminisces of Eastern Oregon by Mrs. Elizabeth Lord.

Died:
Died in an attack of Fort Dickinson, where Capt John Dickinson (his brother-in-law) may have been negligent in organizing the defense

Humphrey married Mary Dickinson on 17 Aug 1753 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Adam Dickinson and Catherine Stephenson) was born in 1725 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died after 1797 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Catherine Madison was born in 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 18 Jul 1818 in Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.

Generation: 2

Thomas Madison was born about 1693 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA (son of John Madison, Jr. and Isabella Minor (Todd)); died on 20 Jan 1754 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA.

Notes:

Birth:
Sources list several dates in the 1690s

Thomas married Johanna Buckner??. Johanna was born in 1698 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Apr 1758 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johanna Buckner?? was born in 1698 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Apr 1758 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA.

Children:

John Madison was born on 26 Oct 1719 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA; died in 1779 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.
Ambrose Madison was born on 11 Mar 1724 in Virginia, USA.
Jane Madison was born on 11 Feb 1726 in Virginia, USA; died on 24 Oct 1767.
1. Humphrey Madison was born on 25 Apr 1730 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Sep 1756 in Jackson River, Bath County, Virginia, USA.
Ann Madison was born on 31 Jul 1733 in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA.
Sarah Madison was born in Feb 1735 in Virginia, USA; died on 31 Oct 1801.
Mary Madison was born on 15 May 1738 in Virginia, USA.

Generation: 3

John Madison, Jr. was born in 1640 in St Stephen's Parish, King & Queen County, Virginia, USA (son of John Maddison and Maria Ambrose); died in 1705 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA.

Notes:

Birth:
Documents refer to her as Elizabeth Minor Tood, but several researchers say that middle names for women were very uncommon at the time, so she was probably born as Elizabeth Minor, and probably had been married to someone named Todd

John married Isabella Minor (Todd) in 1690 in Virginia, USA. Isabella was born in 1663 in Toddsbury, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA; died in 1706 in St Stephen's Parish, King & Queen County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella Minor (Todd) was born in 1663 in Toddsbury, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA; died in 1706 in St Stephen's Parish, King & Queen County, Virginia, USA.

Notes:

I no longer believe that Isabella Minor Todd was the daughter of Thomas Todd and Anne Gorsuch. Their children are fairly well documented and no list of their children include an Isabella. Also

Children:

John Madison, III was born about 1680 in Virginia, USA; died about 1720 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA.
Elizabeth Madison was born about 1690 in Virginia, USA.
2. Thomas Madison was born about 1693 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA; died on 20 Jan 1754 in Caroline County, Virginia, USA.
Catherine Madison was born in 1693 in Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA; died in 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA.
Ambrose Madison was born in 1693 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA; died on 27 Aug 1732 in Madison Family Cemetery, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia, USA.
Eleanor Madison was born in 1700 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA; died in 1751 in Orange County, Virginia, USA.
Roger Madison was born in 1701 in Orange County, Virginia, USA; died in 1801 in Halifax County, Virginia, USA.

Generation: 4

John Maddison was born in 1620 in Gloucestershire, England (son of (Captain) Isaac Maddison and Mary Counsilor); died on 16 Apr 1683 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1653, Virginia, USA

John married Maria Ambrose in 1654 in New Kent County, Virginia, USA. Maria was born in 1620 in Buckinghamshire, England; died in 1680 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria Ambrose was born in 1620 in Buckinghamshire, England; died in 1680 in Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1635, Virginia, USA

Children:

4. John Madison, Jr. was born in 1640 in St Stephen's Parish, King & Queen County, Virginia, USA; died in 1705 in King & Queen County, Virginia, USA.


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