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From: "Heidi E. Hafner" <>
Subject: [JAMES-L] Found: James family box in antique store
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:30:56 -0700


I received the following email regarding a James Family Box... If this is
your James, perhaps you would like to reply to the person(s) below. I
understand that this item is being considered by another person, so you may
want to jump on this opportunity.

Please do not reply to me, because this is all the information that I have.

Thank you,

Heidi Hafner

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I did some searching on the James mailing list on Rootsweb and found a
posting by you that made me think you might be interested in something I
found recently in an antique shop.
I am not a James relative, but a fellow genealogist hoping to do a good deed.
I love to go through old antique shops when I travel and this Holiday weekend
we traveled to my in-laws and made a few stops along the way.
In a small antique shop in central Florida, I found a treasure trove: a
"family box" of James information containing original bibles, photos,
letters, scrapbooks and more. It seems to pertain to a James family of
Doylestown, PA and descendants. The proprietor allowed me to make notes so
that I might help her connect this treasure with an interested descendant. I
hope you can help in this quest. The proprietor is asking $375 for the box,
but I know she will negotiate.
John James, with his sons Josiah, Thomas, William, Isaac and probably Aaron,
of Pembrokeshire, Wales, settled in the edge of Montgomery Co. (PA) about
1711. They were Welsh Baptists. In 1720, John and his two sons Thomas and
William purchased 1,000 acres of the Hudson tracts on Pine run in New Britain.
John's son William had a son Benjamin and Benjamin had son Dr. Oliver P.
James of Doylestown PA. John's son Isaac had son Oliver C. James who
apparently was in the military as a Major stationed in Carcarana, Argentina.
Other names:
Harrison M. James of Jersey City Heights
Miss Miranda E. James
surnames DAMON, HILL, RUCKMAN, HELLER, PHILLIPS...
much much more.
Please contact me for more information.
Lorien Gunsallus

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