James
Tufts
Born in Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Peter Tufts Sr
and Mary (Pierce) Tufts
Brother of
Peter Tufts Jr, John Tufts, Mary (Tufts) Eades, Jonathan Tufts, Jonathan Tufts, Elizabeth (Tufts) Lynde, John Tufts, Mercy (Tufts) Jenkins, Sarah (Tufts) Oakes, Persis Tufts and Lydia Tufts
Husband of
Elizabeth (Wells) Bathrick
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
James Tufts
Died
at about age 25
in South Deerfield, Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay
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James Tufts Birth: Mar. 3, 1650 Malden Middlesex County Massachusetts Death: Sep. 18, 1675 South Deerfield Franklin County Massachusetts Lived in Deerfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Deerfield is now in Franklin County).
Among the teamsters killed at Bloody Brook. The teamsters were hauling grain to storage, under the protection of Captain Thomas Lothrop and his soldiers.
Like many others killed in the battle, James Tufts was young and unmarried. He did have a son, however: his namesake James Tufts. The child's mother was Elizabeth Wells, later Bathrick. Although the Tufts family initially denied that James had impregnated Elizabeth, the child was completely accepted into the Tufts family. Peter Tufts, grandfather of the child, raised him and named him in his will. Elizabeth Wells Bathrick died in 1674, a year before the battle at Bloody Brook. The child James Tufts was thus orphaned as an infant. James Tufts - Find A Grave Memorial# 50217032 [1]
Sources
- Booth, Edward C., M.D. The Tufts Family in Somerville, "Historic Leaves" (Somerville Historical Society, Somerville, Mass., April 1902) Vol. 1, No. 1, Page 21: "James, who was killed in early life with Lothrop in the ambuscade at Bloody Brook in 1675
- Tufts, Larkin T., Tufts Genealogy - Earlier Generations, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, Page 301
- Find A Grave: Memorial #50217032
BIRTH; 3 Mar 1650 Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
DEATH; 18 Sep 1675 (aged 25) South Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
BURIAL; Bloody Brook Mass Grave Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts [2]
- FamilySearch - Name; James Tufts (KP3R-PHG)
Birth; 3 March 1650 Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Death; 18 September 1675 Franklin, Franklin, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Burial; Franklin, Franklin, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America [3]
- Salem Witchcraft With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions ... By Charles Wentworth Upham
Describes "Bloody Brook", Eighteen Wagons, Listed those who died, including James Tufts. [4]
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The record was finally set straight with the 2010 publication of TUFTS KINSMEN, Volume 1, compiled by Herbert Freeman Adams, published on behalf of the TUFTS KINSMEN ASSOCIATION, INC., A charitable corporation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Herbert Freeman Adams, Tufts Family Historian and genealogist, began his extensive research into the Tufts surname in 1946 and continued until his death in 2003.
"NOTE: This departure from prior Tufts genealogical gleanings, copied over and over again since 1821, has been thoroughly scrutinized by Dr. Ralph J. Crandall, Executive Director of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, and by the Society's expert professional genealogist, Gary Boyd Roberts. Both unequivocally approve of this change from the ambiguous to the truth in the matter. -- Herbert F. Adams"
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JAMES TUFTS [son of James Tufts & Elizabeth Wells]
b. June 1670 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass.
d. 16 April 1722 in Medford, Middlesex, Mass.
m. 1 July 1696 in Wells, {York} Maine Province, Mass.
to HANNAH WOODMAN [daughter of John & Mary (Sanders) Woodman]
b. 20 Oct. 1669 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.
d. 12 Jan. 1747/8 in Medford, Middlesex, Mass.
had 1) Mary, 2) Elizabeth, 3) John, 4) Hannah, 5) James
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JAMES TUFTS [son of Jonathan & Rebecca (Waite) Tufts]
b. April 1681 in Medford, Middlesex, Mass.
d. 19 July 1733 in Medford, Middlesex, Mass
m. 1702 in Cambridge, Lexington/Middlesex, Mass.
to RUTH GRIMES [daughter of George & Elizabeth (Blanchard) Grimes]
b. 4 July 1681 in Billerica, Middlesex, Mass.
d. 26 Nov. 1721 in Medford, Middlesex, Mass.
had 1) James, 2) John, 3) Ebenezer, 4) Ruth, 5) Elizabeth, 6) William, 7) Susannah, 8) Mary, 9) Sarah, 10) Grimes
[** James (b. 1681) was married a total of three times; also married to Dinah (Morse) Tufts & Mary (Cheney) Dill Tufts]