Thought this might help someone, Ruby page 224 JAMES, JOHN, revolutionary officer of S. C.; b. in Ireland in 1732; came an infant with his parents, to S. C., and settled at what is now Kings-Tree, Williamsburg. In 1776, as captain of militia, he marched to the defense of Charleston; he served nearly through the war, as major, and was reduced from comparative wealth to poverty; he retired to his farm, and d. in 1791. (Rogers's Am. Biog.)