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- Dolley Madison | Biography, First Lady, Facts | Britannica
Dolley Madison was an American first lady (1809–17), the wife of James Madison, fourth president of the United States Raised in the plain style of her Quaker family, she was renowned for her charm and ingenuity
- Dolley Madison - Wikipedia
Madison accepted and moved with Dolley Madison, her son Payne, her sister Anna, and their domestic servants (who were all enslaved people) to Washington They took a large house on F Street, as Dolley Madison believed that entertaining would be important in the new capital
- Biography: Dolley Madison - National Womens History Museum
Dolley Madison, the fourth First Lady of the United States, is widely remembered as the most lively of the early First Ladies Despite her Quaker roots, she was outgoing, energetic, fun-loving, and kind
- Dolley Madison - Women the American Story
She was the daughter of John and Mary Payne, devout Quakers who owned a farm in Virginia When Dolley was 15, her father decided to follow Quaker teachings and free his enslaved people He sold the farm and moved his family to Philadelphia Unfortunately, his new merchant business failed
- Dolley Madison - World History Encyclopedia
Dolley Payne was born in the Quaker community of New Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina (present-day Greensboro), on 20 May 1768 She was one of eight children born to John Payne, a merchant, and his wife Mary Coles Payne, both of whom came from prominent Virginian families
- Dolley Madison - White House Historical Association
Dolley was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, where her parents briefly moved to establish a Quaker community before returning to Virginia Although John Payne owned enslaved people during Dolley’s early childhood, he freed them in 1783
- Dolley Madison’s Life and Times - University of Virginia
Born in 1768 in North Carolina to Quaker Virginia-born parents, Dolley Payne returned with her family to Hanover County, Virginia, when she was a baby She spent the next decade and a half growing up in colonial Virginia, although no records have survived to tell us the story of those years
- Dolley Madison (1768–1849) - Encyclopedia Virginia
From 1836 to 1844, Dolley Madison resided both in Washington, D C , and at Montpelier, after which she spent the last five and a half years of her life in Washington
- Dolley Madison Biography - life, family, children, parents, death . . .
In 1783 after the Revolutionary War (1775–83), in which the American colonies fought for independence from British rule, her parents made the decision to sell their plantation They freed their slaves and moved the family north when Dolley was fifteen years old
- Dolley Madison - U. S. National Park Service
Dolley Payne was born in a Quaker community in North Carolina, but soon moved to a family plantation in Virginia, and eventually to Philadelphia She married Quaker lawyer John Todd and had two sons, but lost the younger and her husband to a yellow fever outbreak in 1793
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