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Dating Sept. 25, 1773, this account statement between Joseph Woodfolk & George Mitchell is signed by James Madison Sr., the president's father.
It includes a receipt for various supplies, including 2 bed cords, 8 nails, 1 quart mug & 1 pair of buckles.

Document with Madison Sr.’s signature, MF2014.22.5, The Montpelier Collection.

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1787 the full text of the was printed for the public for the first time in the "The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser", issue No. 2690, published by Dunlap & Claypoole, Philadelphia.

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We know the birth dates of very few people enslaved at Montpelier.
Today we honor Webster on his birthday: September 18.

Read his story at The Naming Project.
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Sept.17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the .
wrote to in March 1787, when plans were underway for the , “What may be the result of this political experiment cannot be foreseen.”
11 days before the Constitution was signed, Madison wrote Jefferson, “If the present moment be lost it is hard to say what may be our fate.”

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1857 the obelisk that now marks James Madison’s grave was placed in the Madison Family Cemetery at Montpelier.

Guests can see where Madison is buried during their visit to Montpelier.

Photo by David Raymond, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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Episode #2 of Montpelier's NEW podcast drops today!
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"Consider the Constitution; Right to Assemble with Jade Ryerson" is available wherever you get your podcasts!
Listen on ApplePodcasts, here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/right-to-assemble-with-jade-ryerson/id1703405569?i=1000627749374

This podcast is sponsored by Virginia Law Foundation.
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We know that Demas was born in 1777 because Isaac Hite recorded his birthdate after receiving Demas and his family as a wedding gift from James Madison Sr.

Read the story of Demas at .
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in 1845, 250 veterans of the Battle of Baltimore were honored in Washington DC on the battle’s
31 st anniversary – and they took time to honor their wartime First Lady.
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The Weekly National Intelligencer reported that, after marching from the railroad depot to the White
House to meet President James K. Polk, the “Old Defenders of Baltimore ... marched in admirable order
to the residence of the venerable Mrs. Madison, where they saluted that much-respected lady, as she
stood on her front steps, attended by the Mayor and several of her friends in the city.”

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Dolley Madison,
by then 77 years old, had become an icon of an earlier time in American history.
William Elwell, 1848 portrait of Dolley Madison, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

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Join Montpelier’s Sr. Research Historian Hilarie Hicks as she discusses Montpelier’s duPont family history, shows personal photos of the duPonts at Montpelier, and reveals some surprising connections between the Madisons and duPonts.

🔗 https://www.montpelier.org/events/duponts_madison_montpelier?utm_content=buffer687f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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What does a do if the is uninhabitable?
Rent a new house! That's what did on Sept. 8, 1814, moving into the after British troops burned the White House.
National Photo Company collection, Library of Congress, 1910-1926.

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in 1783, James Madison decided to sell William (Billey) Gardner into short-term servitude in Philadelphia, ensuring that he would be free in 7 yrs.
Madison wrote that he could not punish Billey “merely for coveting that liberty for which we have paid the price of so much blood, and have proclaimed so often to be the right, & worthy the pursuit, of every human being.”
Read William Gardner’s story at , https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/08/11/the-naming-project-william-billey-gardner/?utm_content=buffer53e0b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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1787 the appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including .
Gouverneur Morris was the lead writer, penning “We, the People of the United States...”

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"It is in the spirit of gratitude and remembrance that I join you as the President and CEO of James Madison’s Montpelier."
Read a message from Montpelier’s new President & CEO, Eola Lewis Dance.
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Photo by Sharen Montgomery, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of , died at home in 1983, at the age of 89.
In her will, Mrs. Scott expressed a desire that her heirs would transfer Montpelier to The National Trust for Historic Preservation so that it could be restored & furnished to the time period of .
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On Labor Day we pause to remember enslaved laborers at Montpelier.
Read about some of the many ways those enslaved at Montpelier contributed to the successes of the Madisons and the plantation, https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/04/09/putting-people-in-the-picture/?utm_content=buffer5164b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of ’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past years.

Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.

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The documentary record shows us Henry near the beginning and near the end of his life.
It doesn’t tell us what happened in between.
Read more at .
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Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Sept. 1, 1787, the debate included a simple & important aspect of the separation of powers that was later codified in Article I, Section 6.
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In May of 1787, James Madison’s Virginia Plan advanced the same concept in Resolutions 4 and 5 of his Virginia Plan when he proposed the members of the House and Senate should “be __________ any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States” except service in the House or Senate.
A. Welcomed into
B. Ineligible to
C. Able to hold

Add your guess below!
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Tomorrow kicks off Montpelier's 2nd annual Month!
Throughout Sept. we will be releasing a new series, host panels, Constitution and tours & on-site activities.
Guests can visit Montpelier for free on Constitution Day, Sept. 16th!

Discover all of our happenings here, https://buff.ly/4814JJd
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1787 Charles Pinkney moved “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the authority of the U. States." Federal officials wouldn't have to pledge belief in God, Christianity, or Protestantism.

The flight into Egypt, MF2016.24.3, The Montpelier Collection.
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at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Pierce Butler proposed what became known as the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring the return of any enslaved person who escaped to another state.
Weeks earlier, Madison wrote his father, speculating on the whereabouts of escaped slave Anthony.
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This morning, while digging a pod of shovel test pits at the Overseers House on the Home Farm, one of our field interns Alyssa came upon this great example of a coat button with the shank still intact!

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1844, ’s son John Payne Todd sold 9 ppl to Henry Moncure, the new owner of .
Among them were 2 yr old Elizabeth, her brother Caleb, her mother Charlotte, and her uncle Edwin.
Read what we know about Elizabeth at . 🔗 https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/09/22/the-naming-project-elizabeth/?utm_content=bufferc2f4f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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View of the from a cellar window at .

Dulcey Fuqua Photography, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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1787, the debated when to end the slave trade.
Madison objected to the proposed date of 1808, explaining, “Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves."
Learn more: https://vimeo.com/146647505

Photo of “E Pluribus Unum,” mosaic by Rebecca Warde, courtesy of Montpelier.

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Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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James Madison’s Virginia Plan introduced by Governor E. Randolph on May 29, 1787 in the Federal Convention in Philadelphia, proposed in part at Resolution #6, “... that each branch ought to possess the right of originating Acts.”
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Admittedly, Madison did not include a provision that is found in Article 1, Section 7, “All Bills for raising _______ shall originate in the House of Representatives;”
A. An Army and a Navy
B. The number of Representatives
C. Revenue

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“Time-Tested Tactics: 7 Historic Ways to Beat the Heat” from
How did people stay cool in the past, and what features helped manage where they lived?

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“Everyone knows” that saved the portrait when troops burned the White House in 1814.
But the real story is a lot more complicated, as you’ll discover in our post, “The Great Portrait Rescue.” https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2019/08/22/the-great-portrait-rescue/?utm_content=buffer5b07d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Painting by William Woodward, MF2009.2.1, Courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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In late August 1803, enslaved carriage driver Jason prepared to bring Dolley Madison’s young son John Payne Todd back from Montpelier to the Alexandria Academy.
Learn more about Jason’s work as a horseman and courier at Montpelier’s Naming Project, https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/09/09/the-naming-project-jason/?utm_content=bufferb155f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Learn more about Madison’s involvement in the or , or the lives of the community during your visit to Montpelier.
We have a variety of tour offerings for all of our guests!
https://www.montpelier.org/visit/tours

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What made Madison a great thinker?
According to George Bancroft, who visited Montpelier in 1836:
“One of the remarkable characteristics of his mind was where there was a difference of opinion tending to controversy; he would assume, that there was truth of some sort on each side, and would look about calmly and philosophically to see how much truth there was on each side, and how the controversy came about.”

Portrait, NT 85.2.1A.
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Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Aug. 1787 in Philadelphia continued to be a time to , offer motions & on the details.

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On May 29, 1787, The “Virginia Plan” written by was proposed by VA Edmond Randolph, and included the proposal “... that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States [and] to be of the age of _____ years at least …”.

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Madison’s proposal literally had a ‘blank’ for how old a member of the should be.

What was the decision of the Convention?
A. 25 years
B. 30 years
C. 35 years

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In Aug. 1828, the Madisons’ friend Margaret Bayard Smith wrote a vivid description of her visit to :
“The drawing-room walls are covered with pictures, some very fine, from the ancient masters, but most of them portraits of our most distinguished men, six or eight by Stewart...

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"...The mantlepiece, tables in each corner and in fact wherever one could be fixed, were filled with busts, and groups of figures in plaster, so that this apartment had more the appearance of a museum of the arts than of a drawing room.”

Photo by Jenniffer Powers, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation

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It's Leo Season!🦁
Many of our guests are familiar with the garden lion statues, but have you seen this hand-colored print?

In 1786, wrote about the likelihood of purchasing a set of engravings by French naturalist Comte de Buffon, "I have thought that the cuts of the Quadrupeds in Buffon, if arranged in frames, would make both an agreeable & instructive piece of wall furniture."

"Le Lion," MF2011.80.7
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According to Dolley Madison’s niece, one of the highlights of ’s visit to Montpelier was meeting the elderly enslaved woman Milly.
Read Milly’s story at , and learn what treasured object she kept in an old chest, https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/05/21/the-naming-project-milly/?utm_content=bufferaded7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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1825, Rev. War Gen.l Lafayette made a 2nd visit to for a few days during the last leg of his tour, before his return to .
One guest, Hugh Mercer, described Lafayette as “Him, whom every Section of our Country has been emulous in honoring, but whom, alas! we shall, in all probability, never behold again!”
Read more in our post, https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/12/01/lafayettes-farewell-tour-the-guest-of-the-nation-visits-montpelier/?utm_content=bufferc501a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Aug. 12 1787 saw no end in sight at the .
He wrote to his father: “It is not possible yet to determine the period to which the Session will be spun out. It must be some weeks from this date at least, and possibly may be computed by months.”
Despite his misgivings, the delegates managed to complete the work just 5 weeks later.

Photo by Daniel James.
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Greenstone projectile point identified from the Overseer's House site.
A small number of have been recovered this season, (including those crafted of quartz, flint, and greenstone) revealing how much of Montpelier's was integral to life in the and nations before .

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Did you know the statues in the Annie duPont Formal Garden are all accessioned into the National Trust for Historic Preservation collection at Montpelier?
Learn more about the garden statuary in this new blog post by Museum Technician,
Alexis Atkinson.
🔗https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2023/08/02/garden-statuary-care/?utm_content=bufferd6eef&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Can you imagine Aug. 1787 in Philadelphia?
The Federal Convention started Fri., May 25, 1787.
On Mon., Aug. 6, 1787, the “Committee of detail” report had a lot of similarities to the eventually signed on September 17th.

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What was the 3-year requirement for citizenship changed to for Representatives?
A. 7 years
B. 17 years
C. 27 years

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