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James Madison

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James Madison

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
An indenture dated Nov. 12, 1804 written by James Madison, Jr's niece and ward, Nelly Conway Madison. The indenture is between Nelly Conway Madison of the county of Orange and James Madison, Ambrose Madison for "various tracts or parcels of land in the state of Kentucky in which they were equally interested but the titles to which were obtained in the name of the said Ambrose Madison or of some other person than of the said James Madison and no partition of the same hath ever been made either in the life time of the said Ambrose Madison or since his death nor hath any conveyance . . . thereof been ever made to the said James Madison-now this Indenture witnesseth that the said Nelly Conway Madison for an consideration of the premises and of the sum of five shillings to her in hand paid by the said James Madison the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge hath granted bargained sold and transferred and by where presents doth grant bargain sell and transfer to the said James Madison and his heirs one undivided . . . of all the lands descended to her in the State of Kentucky from her said father Ambrose Madison deceased whether the same stands in the name of her said father . . . The said James Madison his heirs or assigns that she will make any other or further assurance which may be necessary to next move completely in the said James Madison his heirs or assigns the title to the lands hereby intended to be conveyed . . . "the document is signed by Nelly Conway Madison. According to the Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia, the issue of the Kentucky lands owned by James Madison, his father James Madison, Sr., and his brother Ambrose was complicated by the facts that brothers Francis and Ambrose Madison had died several years before their Father and Ambrose did not update his will to reflect the changed situation. This raised the question of which, if any, of the grandchildren were entitled to a share of lands that their grandfather might have bequeathed to their fathers. It also raised another complication, how to settle the question of the jointly owned lands that Nelly Conway Madison, Ambrose's only child, had inherited from her father. This Indenture was intended to settle that matter.

James Madison Sr. signs a June 11, 1772, document pertaining to "holding an inquest on the body of Dover a Negro man slave belonging to Wm. Crawford of the county of Culpeper."

A 1767 document signed by James Madison, Sr. and James Walker detailing the deposition of "William McDonnough who said that in the year 1739 he heard Benjamin Winslow say that his brother Richard Winslow had been at a great deal of trouble and experience in saving his land and that he would make an absolute right to him and his heirs . . . "

A 1771 James Madison, Sr. signed receipt for supplies including "2 bed cords", "8 nails", "1 quart mug" and "1 drum line."

A Madison signed document regarding an agreement between Samuel Hamm and Thomas Gilbert. Hamm and Gilbert were "held and firmly bound to Mordecai Shackelford . . . in the sum of one thousand six hundred pounds of good tobacco . . . the condition of the above obligation, that whereas the above bound Samuel Hamm hath this day obtained from James Madison, Gen'l. a Justice of the Peace of the county of Orange, an attachment against the estate of the above named Mordecai Shackelford for eight hundred pounds of good tobacco, returnable to the next County court . . . "

A document signed by John Madison, presumably, the President's uncle in 1772. The document is a "deposition of John Maddison Gent. taken by consent of parties in an action of assault and battery depending in the County of Orange between Richard Woodfolk PLT. and Andrew Manning Deft. on Saturday the 25th of April 1772." The document reads in part, "the deponent of full age being sworn deposes and says that in the month of March 1767 one Thomas Landrum was produced as a witness in the Court of Augusta in a Petition and brought in that Court by Thos. Clarke and Abraham Smith that after the tryal of said Pet's Landrum applied to the Deponent then and now Deputy Clerk of said County to enter his attendance in said suit, which the deponent refused to do, alleging that no subpoena had been issued from the office to summon him in the said petition that the said Landrum then applied to the court who directed the Deponent to swear him with regard to the matter, that the said Landrum on being sworn declared that one Mr. John McClure who prosecuted the said Pet's on behalf of the Pet's had produced to him a subpoena from the office of sd. County requiring him to attend as a witness in the said suit, the deponent further says that being pretty confident no such subpoena had issued applied to the Court for directions with regard to taxing his attendance in the Bill of Costs and that the Court directed him not to tax the same unless such Subp'a was produced, and made an order for that purpose; that the said McClure has frequently applied to this Deponent to tax said Landrum's attendance . . ." The document is signed by John Madison three times in relation to the case.

In very good overall condition.
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