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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago 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, 9 months ago to academicchatter

#OTD 1787 the full text of the #Constitution 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago 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, 9 months ago to academicchatter

Sept.17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the #Constitution.
#JamesMadison wrote to #ThomasJefferson in March 1787, when plans were underway for the #ConstitutionalConvention, “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, 9 months ago 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to random

#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.
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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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, 9 months ago 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

#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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

Episode #1 of Montpelier's new podcast series, "Consider the Constitution" drops TODAY!
Host Dr. Katie Crawford Lackey sits down with scholar Dr. Lynn Uzzell and discusses the Bill of Rights. What they are. Why they are so important. And whether they protect individuals today the way Madison conceived of them.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

📸 Clint Schemmer.

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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

"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, 9 months ago 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

#OTD the Constitutional Convention unanimously approved the Copyright and Patent Clause. Madison
had first proposed patent protection on August 18. Learn more about his involvement with patents and
the Patent Office in “Patently Madison.”
https://www.montpelier.org/learn/patently-madison

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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of #Montpelier, died at home #OTD 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 #JamesMadison.
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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

“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, 9 months ago 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, 9 months ago 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.
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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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

Discover all of our #ConstitutionMonth happenings here, https://buff.ly/4814JJd
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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago 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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

#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, 9 months ago to academicchatter

In late #summer, 1786 Western #Massachusetts #farmers began an armed #rebellion.
Learn more about #ShaysRebellion in this Madison Moment, Episode 4, by From Memory Films, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.
https://youtu.be/sY0Ad5sTsic?si=ou0aENmkf2IpzF8n

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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

Join Architectural Tech. Tessa, for Sept's Lunch & Learn on Wed., Sept. 13th!
Take a deep dive into the use & #restoration of the rooms on the 1st floor of Montpelier using the #3Dmodel of the house.
Register for this #free program, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdeygpjMpEtH4HCcb81w1br3SZn_2YqFW?utm_content=buffer215c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#/registration

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JMMontpelier, 9 months ago to academicchatter

#OTD 1844, #DolleyMadison’s son John Payne Todd sold 9 #enslaved ppl to Henry Moncure, the new owner of #Montpelier.
Among them were 2 yr old Elizabeth, her brother Caleb, her mother Charlotte, and her uncle Edwin.
Read what we know about Elizabeth at #MontpelierNamingProject. 🔗 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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

View of the #BlueRidgeMountains from a cellar window at #Montpelier.

Dulcey Fuqua Photography, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.

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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

#OTD 1787, the #ConstitutionalConvention 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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to random

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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

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

🔗https://savingplaces.org/stories/time-tested-tactics-7-historic-ways-to-beat-the-heat?token=5b2df75924d8bdec6ba30cbb31315756351ec8f7&utm_content=buffercaf16&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

“Everyone knows” that #DolleyMadison saved the #Washington portrait when #British troops burned the White House #OTD in 1814.
But the real story is a lot more complicated, as you’ll discover in our #blog 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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

Learn more about Madison’s involvement in the #Constitution or #BillofRights, or the lives of the #enslaved 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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to academicchatter

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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JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to random

Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Aug. 1787 in Philadelphia continued to be a time to #debate, offer motions & #vote on the details.

JMMontpelier, 10 months ago to random

In Aug. 1828, the Madisons’ friend Margaret Bayard Smith wrote a vivid description of her visit to #Montpelier :
“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...