James Bemis

The author has been entirely unsuccessful in obtaining absolute proof of the parentage of James, but is fully convinced that they were the sons of Ephraim and Elizabeth who were born in Watertown. All accounts agree that the Windham County Conn. Bemis's were from Watertown, and both Records agree that the Windham and Hampton Bemis's were from there; and, as the date perfectly agree, of removal and settlement, it is a fair and honest assumption that the line of descent is correct.

Of James there is a Windham Record, that on Jan. 29, 1731. Nathanial Bemis and his wife Abigail Hovey were summoned before the church to testify against James Bemis for "hard drinking."

THE BEMIS HISTORY AND GENEALOGY being an account, in greater part of the descendants of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass. ... By Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper ... Published 1900, San Francisco, California, p. 36