James M. Owens Collection of Madison Family Material

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

James M. Owens Collection of Madison Family Material, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
6.50 Linear Feet
Creator:
Owens, James M., Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, Madison, James, 1749-1812, and Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

James M. Owens Collection of Madison Family Material, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, notes, typescripts, and genealogical charts of James M. Owens concerning genealogy of the Madison family of Virginia with emphasis on President James Madison and Bishop James Madison. Includes photocopies of letters of President James Madison and Bishop James Madison; and two original letters, 1804 and 1832, of James Madison and one, 1846, of John Quincy Adams.

Scope and Contents Original letters by James Madison (1751-1836) and John Quincy Adams, and letters to Dr. Calvin Jones of Smithfield, North Carolina; correspondence (1933-1953) of James M. Owens concerning the Madison family; incomplete manuscript drafts by James Owens.

Scope and Contents Describes his affliction by the disease yaws and the promises of cure by Dr. Farrell.

Scope and Contents Asks Dr. Jones to assist him in finding a "gentleman of the medical society"to reside at the university in order to teach medical students to maintain a practice in the area.

Scope and Contents Will consider Worthington's suggestion for a second press in Ohio to print copies of the laws.

Scope and Contents Printed invitation to a "Celebration Ball"on July 4.

Scope and Contents Acknowledges receipt of Marshall's pamphlet "On the Abolition of Slavery"and praises its style and content.

Scope and Contents Defines the French word "brimborion"used in his father's letters.

Scope and Contents Completed manuscripts, some untitled, by James Owens on the Madison family and its history, William and Mary College under Bishop Madison, and gardens of Williamsburg; eleven photographs.

Scope and Contents Typescripts by James Owens entitled "The Madisons of Virginia and Some Allied Family Names," "The Madisons of Virginia: Their Background in England and Their Place in Early American Life," and "Madison Backgrounds: a Survey of Family Origins and of Probable Family Relationships in Virginia During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"in three parts.

Scope and Contents Photostats of James Madison correspondence (1788-89, 1831, and undated); photostats of letters written by Bishop James Madison (1776, 1780-1803); photostats of letters to Bishop Madison from Henry St. George Tucker (1811); photostats of letters written by James Madison, Sr. (1794-95); photostat of lectures given by Bishop Madison at William and Mary (1796)

Scope and Contents Some photostats are from the Library of Congress

Scope and Contents Some photostats are from the Library of Congress

Scope and Contents One photostat is from the Library of Congress

Scope and Contents Two photostats are from the American Philosophical Society Library

Scope and Contents Photocopies of materials relating to James Madison and Bishop Madison, including copies of "Madison and Religion... by Themistius"(1811) and "Manifestations of the Beneficence of the Divine Providence... by Bishop Madison"(1795); genealogical charts and pedigrees.

Miscellaneous notes taken by James Owens on slips of paper, in notebooks, and in folders on the Madison genealogy

Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "James Madison as Bishop"

Scope and Contents Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "James Madison of Orange County"

Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "Bishop Madison and Allied Families"

Card file of notes taken by James Owens on "Madison Family - Miscellaneous Items."

Card file of notes taken by James Owens on miscellaneous subjects related to the Madison family history

Scope and Contents Card file of notes taken by James Owens on miscellaneous subjects related to the Madison family history

Photostatic copy of "Maddison Family Pedigree and Royal Descents by A.R. Maddison, M.A., Canon of Lincoln Cathedral."

Two genealogical charts on the Madison family.

Acquisition information:
Deposit
Physical description:
1300 items