preview

Port Conway: A Brief Biography Of James Monroe

Satisfactory Essays

My name is James Madison and I’m going to tell you about my life. I was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia. I was actually born on March 5 but there was a new calendar that changed it. I was the oldest of 12 children. Two of my siblings died at birth. I was named after my father. My parents names were James Madison Sr. and Eleanor Rose Conway. My family and I lived on a 5,000 acre plantation in Orange County, Virginia. The plantation had 100 slaves that worked the land. It produced tobacco and grains. Many Indians attacked my family through my childhood.

In 1762 my parents sent me to a school run by Donald Robertson. It was in King and Queen County, Virginia. Five years later my father took me out of school and had me stay on

Get Access