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plantation to cover his debts and gain some living expenses. But, she was still devoted to him. She lived with and was cared for by her niece Anne Cutts, and bequeathed her half of her estate. Todd threatened to sue Cutts to gain more of his mother's estate, all that was left from money she received
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of all his slaves upon his death. His debts delayed their release, but the Taylor family petitioned for freedom from James C. McGuire, administrator of the estate, which they were granted in 1853. They continued to live in Washington, where Ralph Taylor had been a servant to Dolley Madison. He was
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Madison adopted Todd at age two and tried to help him in what developed as a difficult life. Believed to be alcoholic, Todd was repeatedly jailed for shooting incidents, and ran up debts in gambling. His parents bailed him out of debtors' prison, mortgaging Madison's
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Because of his problems, Todd contributed to his mother's late life poverty, as she and Madison had sacrificed for him during their lives.
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Todd survived his mother by two and a half years. She willed her remaining enslaved people to him. He was nearly 60 when he died of
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to raise the money. His stepfather had him manage Montpelier at one point, but Todd was unsuccessful. Todd died of
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and John Todd Jr. He had a younger brother, William Temple Todd. Both his brother and father died the same day of
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in the 1793 epidemic. The following year, his 26-year-old widowed mother married the future President
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joined by his wife Catherine and children, who had been living and working on Todd's estate.
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Son of US First Lady Dolley Madison and her husband John Todd JR
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As an adult, Todd never settled into a career. Believed to be
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and John Todd Jr. His father and younger brother died in the
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on January 16, 1852, in Washington, DC. He is buried in the
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less than three years after his mother's death of old age.
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1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election
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Bishop John Carroll
St. Mary's College
Dolley Payne Todd Madison
James Madison
Dolley Payne
1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic
James Madison
Montpelier
typhoid fever
Dolley Payne
yellow fever
James Madison
St. Mary's Seminary
Baltimore
alcoholic
debtors' prison
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plantation
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Montpelier
Library of Congress
typhoid fever
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