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John Payne Todd (February 29, 1792 – January 16, 1852), was an American secretary. He was the first son of Dolley Payne and John Todd Jr. His father and younger brother died in the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, which killed nearly 10 percent of the city's population.
3 de abr. de 2002 · “James Madison and His Stepson, John Payne Todd, Editorial Note,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0659. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison , Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826 , ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke ...
His father John Todd was a young and rising Philadelphia lawyer, married to Dolley Payne. They were active Quakers, at home in a large community of Quakers, some of whom, like her family, had left the South to find lives more compatible to their beliefs in Philadelphia.
9 de dic. de 2015 · In his ninth book, “Scandalous Son: The Elusive Search for Dolley Madison’s Son, John Payne Todd,” Bigler recounts the story of James Madison’s alcoholic, “elusive” stepson. Todd’s life is presented as a parable of what can happen when someone takes their status for granted and engages in self-destructive behavior.
John Payne, born, 1736, Goochland County, Virginia; believed to have initially been a planter; once he emancipated his slaves ( according to then-prevailing Quaker belief ) and moved to Philadelphia in 1783, Payne opened a small laundry starch-making business which failed. He died, 1792, October 24. Mother:
Although John Payne owned enslaved people during Dolley’s early childhood, he freed them in 1783. It is unknown where Dolley was educated, but her surviving correspondence demonstrates that she learned to read and write. Dolley married her first husband, John Todd, also a Quaker, on January 7, 1790.
John Payne Todd (February 29, 1792 – January 16, 1852), was an American secretary. He was the first son of Dolley Payne and John Todd Jr. His father and younger brother died in the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, which killed nearly 10 percent of the city's population.
