James Daniel, Sr.

James Daniel

• Born about 1680 in Christ Church, Middlesex, Colony of Virginia
• Died before 4 Oct 1748 in Middlesex, Colony of Virginia
• Son of Jocabed Smith
• step son of William Daniel
• Husband of Margaret (Vivion) Daniel — married 27 Jan 1704 in Christ Church, Middlesex Co VA
• Father of Robert Daniel, Rachel (Daniel) Amis, Peter Daniel, Charles Daniel, Susanna (Daniel) Mickleborough, William Daniel, Margaret Daniel, James Daniel, Margaret (Daniel) Towles, John Daniel, Phebe Daniel and Vivion Daniel

Will lists wife Margaret
children Rachel, Peter, Charles, Margaret, Susanah, James, Vivion, John, and Phebey
grandchildren James Mickleburrough, Margaret Mickleburrough, and Charles Daniel
Bess, Jenney, and Jack, enslaved people.

Origins

William Daniel Sr. of Middlesex ("Capt. William") named four sons in his will: William, Robert, James, and Richard.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L62H-DLY
has an advisory.

Y DNA testing of descendants of at least two sons of James Daniel shows that their Y DNA does not match the Y DNA of descendants of his supposed "brothers" William Jr. and Robert Daniel. This, along with the wording of the will of William Daniel Sr., suggests that James was not the biological son of William Daniel Sr. He was likely a child of Jochebed and her previous husband, but was raised as a son of William Daniel.

James' birth year and changes in family order:
James was on jury duty "the first Munday" in July 1700 (=5 July 1700) and he was on the 5 August 1700 Grand Jury. So he was born before July 1679. However, Richard was documented as b. 30 September 1678; July of 1679 would be just days over 9 months later, very unlikely even if premature, thus pushing James' birth year to before 1678. Allowing any reasonable time before the Richard pregnancy makes James' birth by or before mid-year 1677.
William and Jochebed's daughter Mary d. 12 September 1678. If she was an infant (more likely than an older child dying per the Rutmans' mortality statistics for early Middlesex), she would have been born in the 1676-1677 range, thus pushing James' birth year back to the 1674-1676 range. There is a reasonable possibility that James is the first child involved with Capt. Wm's second marriage, thus possibly a pregnancy brought into the marriage by Jochebed and "adopted" by Capt. William.
Capt. William was a widower with two small boys by the early 1670s, he wasn't going to wait long to remarry and children would follow soon after, which also fits these ca1674-1677 birth years.
This birth order of the sons conforms to Capt. Wm's will as well. The traditional 1680 birth year for James was estimated by just plugging him into a perceived gap in the children, but it's not based on, or supported by, records of any kind, and is disproved by the jury duty.
http://pamiller.net/genealogy/docs/danielmiddlesex/danieldna/james.htm

References

• DNA of the Daniel Family of Middlesex VA
• Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and ... By Horace Edwin Hayden. Page 294. GoogleBooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Daniel-82
• http://pamiller.net/genealogy/docs/danielmiddlesex/danieldna/james.htm
• http://kevindaniel.x10.mx/results.htm
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~janicekmc/genealogy/daniel.htm
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I4177...
• somehow related to Agatha Obert
• http://pamiller.net/genealogy/docs/danielmiddlesex/danieldna/index.htm to be 100% certain of her conclusions, a proved descendant of Richard Daniel, youngest son of William Daniel and Jochebed LNU should be found to take a Y DNA test. The match of a desendant of Richard to a descendant of William's two older sons would be conclusive.