John Todd
BIRTH
1763
DEATH
October 24, 1793
FAMILY
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Todd, John
(1763-1793)
John Todd (1763-1793) was a lawyer and the spouse of Dolley Madison. Dolley Madison was a social hostess and later first lady whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected John Todd to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including John Todd in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
The exact date and place of John Todd’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Todd with work or public activity as a lawyer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Todd died on Oct 24, 1793. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.