Thomas James (aft. 1707 - aft. 1788)

Born after 1707 in James City, Virginia

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1788 at about age 81 in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

• Thomas James was the son of John Montague James and Justina Thruston. He was born in 1707 in Martins Hundred, James City, Virginia.

• He married Alice Garland March 17, 1760 in St Katherine Creechurch, England.

• Thomas and Alice had one daughter, Lucretia Lucy James (1722-1805).

• He died in 1788 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Sources

1. 1810 United States Federal Census

2. England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973

3. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783

4. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890

• Thomas James, "The Lark Family Ancestry - Martin's Hundred"

- Acton or Axton SCOTT (b c1748 - d c1794)
- Lucretia "Lucy" JAMES (b c1722 - d c1805)
- Thomas JAMES (b c1722 - d c1740)
- Justina THRUSTON (b c1691 - d ?)
- John (Judge) THRUSTON (b c1668 - d c1717) Born In Martin's Hundred
- Edward THRUSTON (b c 1638 - d c1717)
Descendents Chart of Edward THRUSTON (PDF File)
Martins Hundred (http://www.larkfamilygenealogy.com/Martin%27s%20Hundred/Martin%27s%20Hundred.htm | accessed 09 Jan 2020) Copyright ©1998-2019 by Cindy Hartman 2020 | All Rights Reserved.

• Thomas James, "The Heritage Lady"

.. 3 John Thruston b: 02 Dec 1668 in Martin’s Hundred, James City Co., VA d: Aft. 1717
…… +Elizabeth Ellinor Carey b: 1672 in Martin’s Hundred, James City Co., VA m: 23 Sep 1690 in Ashton, Montgomery Co., MD
…. 4 Justina Thurston b: 26 Aug 1691 in Long Ashton, Summerset, England d: 1790 in Armsfield, James City, Hanover Co., VA
…….. +John James b: 1688 in Bristol, Somerset, England m: Bef. 1712 in Bristol, Gloucester, England d: 1725 in Armsfield Plantation, James City, Virginia
……. 5 Thurston (Major) James
……. 5 Christopher James
……. 5 John James
……. 5 Thomas James
……. 5 May James
SOURCES:
(1) Robert Reade Thruston Papers (microfilm), 1653-1838) John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Williamsburg, Virginia. From the Collection at Filson Club Historical Society (between 1950-1975) 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm. Collection of legal papers regarding the Thruston Family of Gloucester Co., Va., including genealogical data.
(2) William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Apr 1894) pp. 219-229; and Vol. 4, No. 1 & No. 3.
(3) It was common for a family to give a child the same name as a deceased sibling.
(4) Thurston Genealogies 1635-1892, compiled by Brown Thurston, Portland, Maine. 2nd Edition, 1892 https://archive.org/details/thurstongenealogbyu00thur
(5) Some Prominent Virginia Families Vol. 1-4, pg. 285-
(6) 1635-1892 Thurston Genealogies, Second Edition, compiled by Brown Thurston, Portland, Maine https://ia600305.us.archive.org/18/items/thurstongenealogbyu00thur/thurstongenealogbyu00thur.pdf
(7) A Sketch of the Ancestry of the Thruston-Phillips Families with Some Records of the Dickinson, Houston, January Ancestry, and Allied Family Connections, by Gen. Gates Phillips Thruston of Nashville, Tn., 1909 http://memory.loc.gov/master/gdc/scdser01/200401/books_on_film_project/bodpdfs/20060731011as.pdf
(8) Will of John Thruston, Chamberlain of Bristol, from the William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jul., 1899), pp. 51-54 and Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct., 1899), pp. 115-119 found on http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915805?seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents and http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915914?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
(9) The Family of Early Which Settled Upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia And Its Connection With Other Families, by Ruth Hairston Early, 1920, pgs. 266-267 (https://www.theheritagelady.com/thrustonthruston-genealogy/ | accessed 09 Jan 2020)

Biography

This person was created on 19 May 2010 through the import of My Family File.ged.

The consensus of family history claims that Thomas James was born about 1722 at Armsfield Plantation in Martin's Hundred of James City county in the Virginia Colony. He was the son of John James (1688-1725) and Justina Thurston (1691-1790). He married Alice Garland. They had a son Thruston and a daughter Lucretia, and possibly other children. Nothing else is known about Thomas James.

Sources

• Thomas James and Alice Garland in "JAMES Family Genealogy at The Heritage Lady Genealogist, Instructor, Author, Historian"

Included Information
Descendants of John James & Justina Thurston 1 John James b: 1688 in Bristol, Somerset, England, d: 1725 in Armsfield Plantation, James City, Virginia + Justina Thurston b: 26 Aug 1691 in Long Ashton, Summerset County, England, m: Bef. 1712 in Bristol, Gloucester, England, d: 1790 in Armsfield, James City, Hanover Co., VA
…2 Thomas James b: 1722 + Alice Garland
Citation
(http://www.theheritagelady.com/james-family-genealogy/ : accessed 03 June 2018) This JAMES website is about the JAMES family that descends from John JAMES (1688-1725) who married Justina THURSTON/THRUSTON (1691-1750) This website was created by Elaine Hatfield Powell and is my personal website. It is not associated with any group or company.