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Subject: James family - Lancaster, Mass.
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:45:06 EDT

Subject: James
Source: Early Records of Lancaster, Mass. 1643-1725 by Henry S. Nourse, A.M.
1884, Lancaster.

p.30
A true copy of the Lawes & Orders ffirst enacted and made by those appointed
and impowered
by the General Court as it is found in the old book - early records of
Lancaster.
List includes Thomas James, (his mark) March 21, 1653.

p.32
John Prescott's corne mill - list of subscribers to his mill include
Thomas James
March 23, 1654.

p.36

The Lott of Thomas James containing 20 acors is the ninth lott & lyeth next
to the lott of
John Lewes on the north butting & bounding as the other. His Intervale lott
northerly of John
Lewes, butted & bounded as the other.

p.39
1654 - The severall estates of the planters who by consent and according to
the rules thereof have engaged that thereby it may be knowne what shall be
their pporcion of land which by
Covenant every planter may make claime unto in a second third or other
devisions of land and
also of meadow within this towne of Lancaster - List of names includes:
Thomas James - £36. 00s. 00d.

p.40
Number of lots

17 - Thomas James - - 1-1/2 acres.

p.41
Att a towne meeting assembled upon legall warning it is agreed by the towne
that there should not be taken into the towne more than the number of thirtie
families and the subscribed names are to be understood that henceforth they
are
to be accounted townsmen:
List included the name of Thomas James.

p.94
1673. 1st of 2nd month - Lancaster
Wee doe present Daniell James for living from under family government.
Witness: John More and John Prescott, Sr.
Grand Jury Presentments - Middlesex Court Files.

p.255
The Lands of Thomas James
Thomas James had a wife, Elizabeth and a son John James, born at
Charlestown, Mass. Nov. 18,
1632. He left his property in Lancaster to his cousins, the Lewises, and
Christopher Lewis
sold the east end of the house lot between the river and the highway to
Joseph White in 1705.
Thomas James died March 15, 1660. note: p.322 give his date of death as
January 13, 1660.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

Subject: Edmund James
Source: Bond's Watertown
p.306
Edmund James, proprietor, 1636-7; Selectman 1638; admitted freeman May 18,
1631. Perhaps
it was his widow, Reana James of Watertown who entered into a marriage with
William Andrew
of Cambridge, August 21, 1663.

p.800
The marriage contract between the widow, Reana James and William Andrew was
made Aug 11,
1640 and on Aug 21, 1664, "Daniel Kempster aged 77," testified that he
witnessed the
signature of the contract.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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