In the light of the hard and feverish work people are doing with the FamilyTreeDNA testing I believe this is worth reading, whether one believes it as a "document" or not, it is worthy of reading. It was extracted from a family genealogy history book from library: Resource: book title: Genealogy of the CLOYD, BASYE and TAPP Families in America with Brief Sketches Referring to the Families of INGELS, JONES, MARSHALL and SMITH by A. D. CLOYD, M.D. Omaha, Nebraska 1912 [other families] page 245: JAMES "The will of John James was proven in Spottsylvania Co., Va., 4-5-1726. He had witnessed a deed 10-27-1725. "William James witnessed a deed in spottsylvania Co., 6-1-1731. "The estate of James James was administered 4-2-1754 in Spottsylvania Co., Va. "Richard James was paid 400 pounds of tobacco for making the sash windows for a church in Bristol Parish in 1724. His wife's name seemed to be Mary Elizabeth, as the Bristol Register shows that Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth James, was born 2-8-1724 and that Mary, dau. of Richard and Mary James was born 1-2-1728. "George James, wife Mary, died Spottsylvania Co., Va., 1753. Their children, Thomas, the oldest son, Mary, Dianah, Joseph, Daniel, born 12-6-1748, and Henry.._____Joseph, and Daniel and Henry were minors when their father died and John James was their guardian. page 246: "Thomas' wife is called Mary in one place and Jenny in another. Her name was probably Bruce as Margaret Bruce in her will dated 7022-1765, and proven 8-6-1765, mentions Thomas James as her brother-in-law and Mary James as her sister. "Thomas James of Fauquier Co., Va., died 1776. His will proven 2-26-1776, mentions daughter Molly who married Michael Robinson, Jr., and daughter Agatha who married Richard Price. another Thomas James married Betty, dau. of Michael Robinson, Sr., shown by deed 6-6-1791, in Fauquier, Va. _____________ "JOSEPH JAMES, a resident of Culpeper Co., Va., was paid for Indians in 1758. Joseph James, age 68, while residing in Scott Co., Ky., in 1818, was granted a pension for services in the Va. Line. "Thomas James, Evan James and Elijah James were Revolutionary soldiers in the Pa. Army according to Saffel. "There were five James brothers in the Revolutionary War referred to by W. G. Simmons in his life of General Marion, who says of them: "No men under Marion were braver and truer than these." Their names were John, William, Gavin, Robert, and James. They were cousins of Major John James who was also in Marion's army. "Thomas James, born near the Maryland and Virginia line 7-17-1770, father of William James who married Martha Cloyd at Nashville, Tenn., 8-19-1816, is supposed to have been the son of one of those five brothers. David Cloyd James, Madisonville, Ky., son of William, is authority for this statement. "William James accompanied Lord Baltimore to America and settled in Virginia. His son, William, married Clarissa Smith in Virginia and both of these died in Cannon County, Tenn. William, Jr., had two sons, John M., the father of Mrs. Hulda Meacham of San Bernardino, Cal., and Robert Stanley, the father of James D. James of Joplin, Mo. "Robert James, the father of the noted James Boys, of Missouri, was a grandson of the emigrant William James and his father was a brother to William, Jr. (Authority John D. James, Joplin, Mo.)"