Excerpts from volume title The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families. Prepared for EDWARD LEE McCLAIN by Charles Archer Hoppin IN THREE VOLUMES. Greenfield, Ohio: Privately Printed 1932. In VOLUME II: page 286, mention of Charles JAMES. re: the history of the HUSBAND/HUSBANDS genealogy of William HUSBAND/S of St. Mary County, Maryland and Shrewsbury Parish, Kent, Maryland. notation: William HUSBAND witnessed a deed written of November 14, 1699 of Charles JAMES to John WATS. [Kent County Deed Book, I-page 177]. Shrewsbury Parish, Kent is where William moved to shortly prior to this witnessing. This leads to the assumption that the property in this deed transaction was owned by Charles JAMES at the writing of the deed in the in St. Mary's County, Maryland or in Kent County, MD. circa 1699. Transaction filed in Kent County, Md. __________________ Linda M. Thank lthank@turboisp.com __________________