7th Annotation

Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. New York: Library of Congress Catologing-in-Publication Data, 1990

Back in that time and age it was very common for people to marry their relatives, usually first cousins. The author of this book indicates because of this form of marriage Madison's family was very expansive. When sitting in at the first Virgina Covention in 1776 he found that the "connections through Edmund Pendleton and Patrick Henry were very useful" These connections also expanded to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.