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• After James Madison’s presidency, the couple returned to their Virginia plantation. Over the years, Dolley’s son Payne Todd, who had never found a career, had accumulated massive debts through gambling and alcoholism, which her husband had handled while keeping them a secret. Todd was finally sent to debtors’ prison, and Dolley had to be informed. The plantation was mortgaged to pay his debts. When James died in 1836, Dolley was faced with financial poverty from the debt. She organized her husband’s seven volumes of presidential papers, which she sold to Congress for $55,000. The plantation was the next thing to be sold to cover Todd’s debts, and Dolley moved to a small house in Washington. She frequently received hand-outs from neighbors and even from her former slaves. In 1848, she sold the remainder of Madison’s papers for $25,000. She passed away the following year at 81.
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