James Percival (1672 - 1738)

Born 18 Jan 1672 in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Robinson) Percival — married 18 Feb 1696 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 19 May 1738 at age 66 in Each Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

James Percival, son of James Percival and Mary (Rainsford) Percival, was born at Sandwich, Plymouth Colony on January 18, 1671/2.^[1][2]

James married Abigail Robinson. Several sources say that they were married at Sandwich on February 18, 1695/6;^[3][2][1] however, the marriage was recorded in Falmouth town records as having occurred on February 27, 1696/7.^[4]

James and Abigail had the following children:

1. Ebenezer, b. June 18, 1699 at Falmouth^[4][5][1]
2. Mary, b. September 16, 1701 at Falmouth^[4][6] or 1702 at Saconessett^[1]
3. John, b. October 17, 1706 at either Sandwich^[1] or East Haddam,^[7] m. August 5, 1731 Hannah Whitmore at East Haddam, Connecticut, Colony,^[8] d. September 14, 1786 at East Haddam, Connecticut Colony^[8]
4. [[Percival-1038|James],^[1] m. July 9, 1730 Elizabeth Backen/Bacon at East Haddam, Connecticut Colony,^[8]
5. Timothy, b. October 2, 1712 at East Haddam, Connecticut Colony^[1]

James and his family moved from Falmouth to East Haddam about 1705-6. There is a record of a "James Pasival of Falmoth" buying land in East Haddam on June 19, 1705^[9] and Abigain Parsivel ye wife of Jeames parsiveal being admitted to the First Church in East Haddam on February 2, 1706/7.^[7]

James died on May 19, 1738 at East Haddam, Connecticut.^[2][1]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Kernan, John D., "Percival Genealogy," The Connecticut Nutmegger, The Connecticut Society of Genealogiest, June 1971, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 238
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Rasmussen, James A., "Edward Raynsford of Boston: English Ancestry and American Descendents," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 139, p. 299
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3L-7WB : 3 November 2017), James Percival and Abigail Robinson, 18 Feb 1695; citing Marriage, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 775,836.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Falmouth Town Records, "Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1668-1753," p 19
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ33-QZ3 : 4 December 2014), Abigal Robinson in entry for Ebenezer Parsenal, 18 Jun 1699; citing FALMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0904590 IT 1-3, 0904594, 0904589.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3S-TQZ : 4 December 2014), Abigal Robinson in entry for Marey Parsenel, 16 Sep 1701; citing FALMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0904590 IT 1-3, 0904594, 0904589.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Julius H. Ward, "The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival," 1866, p 522
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} Kernan, John D., "Percival Genealogy," The Connecticut Nutmegger, The Connecticut Society of Genealogiest, June 1971, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 239
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Julius H. Ward, "The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival," 1866, p 521

See also:

• Sandwich, Mass., Records, The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., 1900) Vol. 3, Page 35. These vital record transcripts made in 1869 give a birth date of "18th of January 1778[sic]". In The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 14, Page 107 & 110, it explains that the correct birth year is 1671.