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CLAY, Henry (1777-1852)
Representative, Senator, Secretary of State, and three time candidate for president, Henry Clay was both a supporter of the Madison administration and a long-standing friend of DPM's.

COLES, Catherine Thompson (1768-1848)
Daughter of James Thompson and Catherine Walton, a native of New York and the second wife of DPM's uncle, Congressman Isaac Coles (VA) and sister in law of Elbridge Gerry.

COLES, Edward (1786-1868)
Coles was DPM's second cousin and a long-standing friend of DPM's. He was private secretary to JM (1809-1815) and later the second governor of Illinois. DPM and EC remained close until DPM's death.

COLES, Elizabeth (1791-1865)
Daughter of John Coles, sister of Edward, Isaac, Mary Eliza, and Sarah Coles Stevenson. Elizabeth Coles was not only a second cousin but a friend of DPM's. The two women shared books, family, and gossip.

COLES, Mary Eliza (1776-1856)
Daughter of John Coles, sister of Edward, Isaac, Elizabeth, and Sarah Coles Stevenson and second cousin to DPM. She married Robert Carter.

COLVIN, John B. (1778-1826)
Editor and State Department Clerk, through his newspaper, "The Monitor," he had strongly supported JM for president in 1808. DPM supported JBC in his fight with JM's Secretary of State, Robert Smith.

COOLIDGE, Ellen Wayles Randolph (1796-1876)
Daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson and grand-daughter of Thomas Jefferson. She married Joseph Coolidge of Boston, MA. A young friend of DPM's.

CUTTS, Anna Payne (1779 -1832)
Younger sister of DPM, Mrs. Madison called Anna her "sister-child." Lived with DPM in Philadelphia and then Washington, until she married Congressman Richard Cutts, Republican from Maine, in 1804. They had seven children: James Madison Cutts, Thomas Cutts, Walter Coles Cutts, Richard Cutts, Dolley Payne Madison Cutts, Mary E. E. Cutts, and Richard D. Cutts.

CUTTS, Dolley P. Madison (1811-1838)
Daughter of Anna Payne and Richard Cutts and favored niece of DPM.

CUTTS, Mary E. E. (1814-1856)
Daughter of Anna Payne and Richard Cutts and favored niece of DPM. Wrote unpublished memoir of DPM which was later used by Lucia B. Cutts in her Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison (1886), first book-length of biography of DPM.

CUTTS, James Madison ((1805-1863)
Son of Anna Payne and Richard Cutts and favored nephew of DPM.

CUTTS, Richard (1771-1845)
Son of Thomas Cutts and Elizabeth Scammon, the Cutts were a prominent Maine family, he married Anna Payne in 1804. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1801-1813 and was Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury from 1817 to 1829. Heavily indebted to James Madison, JM acquired the Cutts house in Washington, D.C. and it was there that DPM lived after 1837.

CUTTS, Richard Dominicus. (1817-1883)
Son of Anna Payne and Richard Cutts and favored nephew of DPM.