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founded many churches in that state; his death occurred in the state of Kentucky in the year 1830.

Massie, Thomas, son of William Massie and Martha Macon, his wife, was born August 22, 1747, attended the grammar school of William and Mary College, 1759- 1760; a captain in the revolution, 1775-1778. promoted major in the northern campaign, 1 778- 1 779; aide-de-camp to General Nelson winter of 1780-1781 to the fall of Yorktown, in 1808 one of the first magistrates of Nel- son county, 1808. He married about 1780. Sarah Cocke, and died at "Level Green,'' his seat in Nelson county, Virginia, Febru- ary 2, 1834.

Madison, James, first bishop of Virginia and fourth in succession in the American episcopate, was born near Port Republic, Virginia, August 27, 1749, son of John and Agatha (Strother) Madison, and a descend- ant of John Madison, a patentee of land in Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1^53. Bishop Madison obtained his early educa- tion in an academy in Maryland, and in 1768 entered the College of William and Mary : pursued a course of law study under the guidance of George Wythe, was admit- ted to the bar in 1770, but shortly afterward returned to his alma mater, and on July 29, 1772. received the gold medal for proficiency in classical learning; he pursued theological studies at the college, in the meantime serv- ing as instructor in penmanship, and in May. 1773, was appointed professor of mathematics; the board of visitors of the college furnished him with fifty pounds to pay his expenses to London, England, where he received orders as deacon, Sep- tember 29, and as priest, October i, 1775;

returned to X'irginia. in 1775, accepted the chair of natural philosophy in William and Mary Colitgo. and two years later, when the board of visitors removed President Camm, he was elected president of the col- lege and served in that capacity until his death in 1812; under his administration the chairs of law and medicine were created and the college assumed the dignity of a univer- sity of which George Washington was made chancellor in 1788; the elective system of study was adopted, the study of munici- pal law was introduced, President Madison being the first college president in America to introduce that; at the close of the revo- lution he was president of the first conven- tion of the Episcopal church in Virginia, May I, 1785; in 1790 was elected the first bishop of the American church in Virginia, becoming the fourth in succession in this country-; was consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth Palace. London. England, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, September 19, 1790; he continued to perform the duties as president of the college in addition to his oversight of the churches of his diocese for twenty-two years ; he received the honorary degree of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1785. and from the College of William and Mary in 1796; was the author of **EuIogy on Washington" (1800) : papers in Barton's Journal, a Map of \'ir- ginia; and several sermons for special oc- casions; married, in 1779, Sarah Tate, granddaughter of Secretary William Cocke; Mrs. Madison died August 20, 1815, having survived her husband more than three years, his death occurring in Williamsburg, \'ir- ginia. March 6, 1812.

Garrard, James, was born in StaflFord county, Virginia, January 14, 1749; son of

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