JMMontpelier

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Home of America's 4th President, James Madison.
A memorial to the Madisons & the Enslaved Community and a center for constitutional education.

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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

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.
🔗 https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/09/02/the-naming-project-webster/?utm_content=bufferd6203&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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JMMontpelier, to MIguns

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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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

#OTD 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.
Produced by Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. #ConstitutionMonth #VLF #sschat #histodons #HistoryTeacher #apgov #ushistory @academicchatter

JMMontpelier, to history

We know that Demas was born #OTD 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 #MontpelierNamingProject.
🔗 https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/09/10/the-naming-project-demas-demars/?utm_content=bufferdbda4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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#OTD 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.
(1)

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(2)
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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(3)
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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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

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

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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

#OTD 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 #MontpelierNamingProject, 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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#OTD 1787 the #ConstituionalConvention appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including #JamesMadison.
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.
🔗 https://www.montpelier.org/learn/message-from-eolalewisdance?utm_content=buffercc875&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Photo by Sharen Montgomery, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

Today is #NationalReadABookDay!
What are you reading right now?
Comment below! ⬇️

Need a new history read?
Check out our online Museum Shop!
https://shop.montpelier.org/shop/books-office/6

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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 #JamesMadison’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.

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

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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

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 #MontpelierNamingProject.
🔗https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/03/22/the-naming-project-henry/?utm_content=bufferdad7e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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JMMontpelier, to random

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.
(1)

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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!
(2)

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🔴 ⚪ 🔵
The Constitution Quiz of the Week is made in collaboration with Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier.
(3)

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JMMontpelier, to academicchatter

#OTD 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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#OTD 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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JMMontpelier, to SciComm

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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