“We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia. A 200-Year Family History” by T.O. Madden Jr. with Ann L. Miller, 1992, W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York, N.Y. A mixed race family founded when Mary Madden, a poor Irish immigrant, bore a child, Sarah Madden (1758-1824) in Spotsylvania, Va. Sarah’s father was said to be a slave. The book is a rich source of genealogy information including a family chart, documents and pictures. The book is dedicated to Sarah and her son Willis (1799-1879). The author is the son of Thomas Obed Madden Sr., who was born in 1860, a son of Willis’s daughter Maria.