PART 2 Family history links: from History of Bucks County, page 359. "The James, a numerous and influential family in New Britain, belong to htis same Welsh stock *6 (footnote ref. to the Welsh immigrants of Pembrokshire). In 1711 John James and his sons Josiah, Thomas, William, Isaac and probably Aaron came from Pembrokeshire and settled in the eastern edge of Montgomery county. when the Montgomery Baptist church was organized, in 1719, with but ten members, John James with his wife and three elder sons, constituted one-half of the membership. In 1720 John and his sons, Thomas and William, purchased a thousand acres, part of the Hudson tract, New Britain, on Pine run and North branch, and probably came into the township to reside about the same time. Josiah, Isaac and Aaron, whose wife was a member at Montgomery, remained on the other side of the county line, where Isaac became the owner of a thousand acres. John James probably died about 1726, as we hear no more of him after that date. In 1731, Thomas purchased one hundred and se! venty-six additional acres of Society lands from Joseph Kirkbride. In 1738 William James bought two hundred and seventy-seven acres of John Kirgbride, north of Pine Run and east of the Alms-house road extending over Iron hill nearly to North branch. "This tract was part of two thousand eight hundred and fifty acres which John Scotcher, of Falls, conveyed to Joseph Kirkbride, 1721. Kirkbride, who died, 1736, left his real estate to his son John by will. William James divided his property between his children before his death, John, probably the eldest, getting the homestead where Thomas C. James lived. The two brothers were now near where the dwelling of Thomas C. James stands. Thomas lived to be a very old man, and died about the time of the Revolution, on the farm owned by Adam Gaul, on the south side of Pine run. He probably had but two sons, Samuel and James. The former went to the western part of the State, and at the close of the Revolution, the latter sold the farms owned by the late Eugene James and James E. Hill, to Peter Eaton and migrated to North Carolina. the mother of Thomas C. James, of New Britain, was a Williams, likewise of a Welsh family, whose uncle, of that name, was educated for the ministry,! and settled at Providence, Rhode Island, where he died. His Grandmother was a Maitland, member of a Scotch family of Wrightstown. Several of the Maitlands were in the French and Indian war and six of the James were in the Revolution. "The late John O. James, Philadelphia, was the youngest son of Abel H. James, great-grandson of John James, the first, and his mother was Catharine, eldest daughter of Owen Owen, of Hilltown. Abel James, the father, was a farmer of Hilltown, but engaged in exporting produce from Philadelphia, and died at Dover, Delaware, while there on a visit in the fall of 1769. His son, Abel H. James, was born at Newtown, January 1, 1770, and died in Hilltown, 1839. He lived for a time in Maryland and Virginia, but returned to Bucks county, and married Catharine Owen, 1803. "The late Isaiah James, New Britain, married Caroline, a younger daughter of Abel H. James. All the Jameses of New Britain are descended from Thomas and William James, most of them from the latter. The late Levi L. James, of Doylestown, was a descendant of Thomas, and Nathan C. of William. "Previous to the Revolution the farm of Samuel Oakford belonged to John, the son of Thomas James, the elder. He left it at his death to his son Benjamin, who sold it to Doctor Hugh Meredith in 1789, on his removal to North Carolina. In 1792 it was bought by Moses Marshall, Tinicum, son of him who made the Great Walk in 1737, who sold it in 1810, and removed to Buckingham. *2(footnote page 360, History of Bucks County) Further mentions: The farm of Abiah R. James is part of the Kirkbride purchase. Old deeds from the 'Kennedy tract' recite the piece 'as lying along the North branch and between the Husdon tract and Hilltown' ; Isaac James sole to Thomas MOrgan, a Welshman, 150 acres in 1731. The tract came into the possession of William Jones and John Thomas in two pieces in less than two years. *1 (foot note page 359, , History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, From Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time, Vol. I, by William W. H. Davis, A.M., published 1905).: The James family is a very old one in England, and appears in the Doomsday book as landowners. William James was probable born in 1692. *2 (footnote page 360, History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, From Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time, Vol. I, by William W. H. Davis, A.M., published 1905 ): Robert James, at his death, April 13, 1898, in his 88th year, was the head of the family. He was a son of Levi and descendant of John James, the pioneer. He was a prominent citizen; elected to the Legislature, 1844, and served one term; jury commissioner 1867, and director of the poor 1880. ________________________________