Orange County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Birth and Baptism of President Madison. September 11, 1868
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Native Virginian 11 Sept 1868 September 11, 1868
Birth and Baptism of President Madison. -We have been shown by a gentleman of the 
neighborhood an old manuscript book in the hand writing of James Madison the 
elder, father of the President, in which the following entry appears, giving the 
birth and baptism of his son, the fourth President of the United States:

"My wife delivered a son on Tuesday night, 12 o'clock, it being the last of the 
5th and beginning of the 6th day of March 1750 -1. James Madison, Jr., was 
baptised by the Rev. Mr. Wm. Davis,. March 31, 1751, and had for god fathers Mr. 
John Moore and Mr. Jonathan Gibson, and for god mothers Mrs. Rebecca Moore, Miss 
Judith and Eliza Cattlet.

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