Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK/US/W.I.) to exasperate, to drive mad, e.g. with jealousy or worry.

1598		Jonson Every Man In his Humour II i: ’Sdeath! he mads me; I could eat my very spur-leathers for anger!
1606		J. Day Ile of Guls V i: Ile mad you with a vengeance.
1630		Dekker Honest whore pt 2 n.p.: Why should my face thus mad you?
1810		G. Crabbe The Borough in Poetical Works (1839) I 89/1: Again! By Heav’n, it mads me.
1816		J. Pickering Vocab. 129: The verb to mad, [...] to make angry, is in use in many parts of this country.
1913		G.D. Chase ‘Lists From Maine’ in DN IV i 1: mad, v. To anger. ‘He will mad a person.’.
2001		(con. 1981) A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 227: Oh, fuck. Tribulation gonna mad me.