Corrections to "Plantagenet Ancestry" , Bulkeley pg 164 This page edited and hosted by Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist

Bulkeley pg 164

Thomas James of Needham Market, Suffolk, wrote his will on 5 Feb. 1682/3 and it was recorded on 13 Feb. 1683/4. My certified copy of the original came from the Ipswich Record Office with the reference number of IC/AA1/113/80. Mr. Thomas James was buried on 16 Feb. 1682/3 [just eleven days after the writing of his will] as per the register of Barking Parish. A summation of his degrees and career can be found on p. 462 of John Venn & J. A. Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses (1922), part 1, vol. 2. He was mentioned affectionately in a 1630s letter from Roger Williams to John Winthrop [see Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1863), vol. 4 ~ Fourth Series, pp. 242-244]. An extant letter from ca. 1642 of this Thomas James is transcribed on pp. 321-322 of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1871), vol. 1 ~ Fifth Series. The exact location of his home lot in Providence, Rhode Island can be found on a map in Howard Chapin's Documentary History of Rhode Island (1916).

Thomas James, the son of the former Thomas James, was a resident of East Hampton, Suffolk Co, NY (Long Island) for about four decades, so he should more appropriately be described in Plantagenet Ancestry as of East Hampton, not as of Southhampton as he is on p. 164. The son Thomas James was christened on 13 Feb. 1620/1 in Moulton, Lincolnshire [see Bishop's Transcripts on FHL British Fiche 6907822]. The 5 Jun. 1696 will of "Thomas James Preacher of ye Gospel & Minster of Easthampton in ye County of Suffolk" was recorded on 23 Jun. 1696 at St. George's Manor, Suffolk Co, NY [see William Pelletreau's Early Long Island Wills of Suffolk County, 1691-1703 (1897), pp. 123-127]. The date of his death is given as 14 Jun. 1696 in the recording of the will. The extant letters [as well as a reproduction of his signature and wax seal] of the younger Thomas James can be found on pp. 482-486 of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1865), vol. 7 ~ Fourth Series. He is mentioned multiple times in other letters from The Winthrop Papers in the same collection. Articles on the family of his wife Ruth Jones (1628~1668-69) appear on pp. 52-54 of TAG (Jan. 1996), vol. 71, no. 1, and on pp. 57-62 of NYGBR (Apr. 1875), vol. 6, no. 2.

For a more complete listing of the lands held by Thomas Bulkeley and the Grosvenor family from pp. 163-164 of Mr. Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry see this link.
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