James was born about 1821. James is the child of James Marsden and Nacky Brooks. James passed away in 1897. [1]
James Brooks Marsden, named for his great-grandfather, James Brooks, was . . . a craftsman and practiced carpentry for many years. He married Martha Ann Davis and . . . fathered eleven sons and daughters. . . [He] lived in Baltimore City and in 1857, with others, bought 220 acres on Back River near the North Point Road, known as "Swan Harbor" for a "farm and fishing and ducking shore." He, his wife, and others of his immediate family, including Lydia Lillian Marsden, are buried in the family plot in Western Cemetery.
Blackburn to Baltimore: A Marsden Family Genealogy by Charles Albert Earp, 1963, p. 10
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