Page:The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, v. I.djvu/234

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190 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS 1861). See also the "Madison Papers" (3 vols., Washington, 1840), and the "History of the United States by Henry Adams. Vols. V to IX, Madison s Administration, 1809-1817" (New York, 1890, 1891). A complete edition of his writings, edited by Gaillard Hunt, in 9 octavo volumes, ap peared in New York in 1900-1910. For biog raphies there is the cumbrous work of William C. Rives (3 vols., Boston, 1859- 68), and the sketch by Sydney Howard Gay in the "American States men" series (Boston, 1884). His wife, DOROTHY PAYNE,, born in North Caro lina, May 20, 1772; died in Washington, D. C., July 12, 1849, was a granddaughter of John Payne, an English gentleman who migrated to Vir ginia early in the 18th century. He married Anna Fleming, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, one of the early settlers of Jamestown. His son, the second John Payne, Dorothy s father, married Mary Coles, first cousin to Patrick Henry. Dorothy was brought up as a Quaker, and at the age of nineteen married John Todd, a Pennsyl vania lawyer and member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Todd died in the dreadful yellow-fever pes tilence at Philadelphia in 1793. Some time in 1794 Mrs. Todd met Mr. Madison, and in Septem ber of that year they were married, to the delight of President Washington and his wife, who felt a