James Maxwell

James was a sealer of leather in Boston, where he was also a member of the Scots Charitable Society.

He is called James in his daughter Dorcas' birth records, but Cutter gives his name as Thomas. This might have been due to Cutter confusing him with Dorcas' husband, Thomas Stratton.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  • Name: Dorcas Maxwell; Event Type: Birth; Birth Date: 27 Feb 1677; Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts; Father Name: James Maxwell; Mother Name: Dorcas.
• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 3, p. 1806. Boston, Mass.: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.

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JAMES MAXWELL OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS c. 1635 - 1720 James Maxwell came to America prior to the year 1666. He was born in Dumfries, Scotland according to Ezra STILES (Franklin Bowditch Dexter, MA, Editor-,The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles (President of Yale College), D,D., L.L.D New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1901), hereinafter Stiles). Stiles' Diary quotes from a hand written manuscript penned by the Rev. Samuel MAXWELL son of James who gave details regarding his parents and siblings. The Town of Dumfries is located in the county and parish of Dumfries on the left bank of the Nith River, nine miles from Edinburgh and 71 miles from Glasgow. Caerlaverock Castle south of Dumfries was the thirteenth-century stronghold of Maxwells and as such besieged by Edward I of England (Roddy MARTINE,- Scottish Clan and Family Names,Their Arms, Origins and Tartans, Secaucus, NJ, Chartwell Books, 1992 Quoted text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=89655268&pid...