James was named as heir and also signed as a witness to his father, William Arnold, Sr.'s will, written in 1806, Rutherford Co., Tennessee.
James and his father, Wm. Arnold, Sr., were listed on a 1799 Knox County, Tennessee petition.
Grainger County, Tennessee Deeds, Book B, page 194; James Arnold witnessed William Arnold's sale of land to David Tate.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
Elizabeth Shelton has been proven not to be the mother of this James Arnold, nor was she the wife of the William Arnold, born 1759. See source at: Arnold-5478 and Shelton-2195.