Rev. Thomas James, Jr.

Biography

The son of Rev. Thomas & Olive (Ingoldsby) James, Thomas James married (1) Ruth Jones, daughter of John & Sarah Jones, in 1646 in Fairfield, Conn. and (2) Katherine Blux on September 2, 1669 in Southampton, Long Island.

He lived with his parents in New Haven in the Colony of Conn. for several years, was a freeman there in 1645, and married his first wife the following year. The family removed to Easthampton, Long Island about 1650/51, where he became the first pastor there.

The will of Rev. Thomas James, dated June 5, 1696, mentions "eldest daughter, Sarah, wife of Peregrine Stanborough"; daughter Mary, wife of John Stretton; daughter Hannah, wife of James Dyment; daughter Ruth, wife of Thomas Harris; grandchildren, Mary Stanborough and Mary Stretton; daughter-in-law, Anne, now wife of Abraham Howell of Southampton, formerly wife of his son, Nathaniel; eldest grandson, John M. Stanborough; daughter-in-law, Mary, wife of John Mulford; daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Osborn; sons-in-law, Stanborough, Stretton, Dyment and Harris, executors; sons-in-law, Mulford and Osborn to be overseers. His will was proved June 23, 1696.

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Family

Husband: Thomas Rev. James. Wife: Ruth Jones

1. Child: Sarah (James) Stanborough
2. Child: Mary James
3. Child: Hannah James
4. Child: Nathaniel James, born 1660, died after 20 June 1689. Married Ann Wakeman, daughter of Rev. Samuel Wakeman of Fairfield, Connecticut, no issue. She married second, Abraham Howell, 2 Oct 1690.[8]
5. Child: Ruth James about 1646-1648, possibly at Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, (home of the bride)

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FYI from the Great Migration Begins:

THOMAS, b. about 1622; m. (1) by about 1648 Ruth Jones, daughter of Rev. John Jones (eldest child b. about 1648 [ TAG 1 1:29-30]; in will of 17 January 1664[/5] Rev. John Jones bequeathed to daughter Ruth James [ FOOF 1:344]); m. (2) 2 September 1669 Katharine Blux, widow [ TAG 11:29; SoTR 2:53; FOOF 1:327-29].
info from Linda Mac

From Harris of Cumberland County, N.J., by Walter Sheppard, Jr., M.S., NEHGR Vol 105 (1951), page 59.

Across from the cemetery on James Lane, about half way between Jeffrey's Lane and Maidstone Lane stands this stone marking the location of his home.

Inscription: He was Minister of the Gospell and Pastor of the Church of Christ.

References

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Harris of Cumberland County, N.J., by Walter Sheppard, Jr., M.S., NEHGR Vol 105 (1951), page 59. < AmericanAncestors >
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33956790/thomas-james
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/James-1565 cites
   1. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700
   2. Ancient Burial Grounds of Long Island, NY, database online,[1], (accessed 7/24/2021), Extracted from Ancient Burial Grounds of Long Island, N. Y., by Edw. Doubleday Harris, Esq., of New York City, New England Historical & Genealogical Register,
   3. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, by Douglas Richardson, (2011), Vol I, page 347
   4. Great Migration Begins, page 1074
   5. A book of Strattons: being a collection of Stratton records
   6. A book of Strattons: being a collection of Stratton records
   7. The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, With Genealogies, page 201
   8. James, Mellowes and Ingoldsby Family Connections, by Donald Lines Jacobus, TAG Vol 11, page 29
   9. ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. II page 9
   10. Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, page 1074, profile for Thomas James , the father and his son
   11. James, Mellowes and Ingoldsby Family Connections, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., and Clarence Almon Torrye, Ph.B., published in The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) TAG Vol 11 (1934), pages 26-30 and pages 98-99
   12. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, database, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006), entry for Olive Ingoldsby, extracted from Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 2004), page 186. Available with subscription to Ancestry.com.
   13. A book of Strattons: being a collection of Stratton records, database online, Google Books, Volume 1, By Harriet Russell Stratton
   14. A Book of Strattons Volume I Title: Complied By Harriet Russell Stratton, A Book Of Strattons Volume I: being A Collection of Stratton Records From England And Scotland, And A Genealogical History Of The Early Colonial Strattons In America, With Five Generations Of Their Descendants (New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, 1908).
   15. Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume I, page 347#15iiia Olive Ingoldsby
   16. Sprague, William Buell. Annals of the American Pulpit (Robert Carter & Brothers, New York, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 47: See footnote.
   17. The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, With Genealogies, database online at Internet Archive, by George Rogers Howell, M.A. (Yale University) 1887, page 64, 201
   18. Ancient Burial Grounds of Long Island, NY, database online,[2], (accessed 7/24/2021), Extracted from Ancient Burial Grounds of Long Island, N. Y., by Edw. Doubleday Harris, Esq., of New York City, New England Historical & Genealogical Register,