| BIRTH | James was born in 1615 in England. |
| DEATH & BURIAL | He died in Boston, Suffolk co., MA on 1 February 1687/8; he was 72[15]. He is buried in Copp's Hill Burial Ground in Boston, Suffolk co., MA. |
| MIGRATION | James came to America with his parents sometime before 1635, when he was aged 20. |
| RESIDENCE & REAL ESTATE | James & his wife Mary are listed as being "of Pulling Point" (also known as "Pullen Point" & "Pudden Point") in Boston Harbor. His estate there was in the southwesterly part of Pullen Point[16]. On 27 April 1685, their three sons James, Jr., Jonathan & Joseph together bought the Parker-Cheever Farm in Rumney Marsh for £300. The Cheevers became tenants on the farm the next year and bought the farm from the three brothers on 22 October 1689 for £357. It had 120 acres[17]. |
| MARRIAGE | Circa 1645 when James was 30, he married Mary [surname not known], in Boston, Suffolk co., MA[4,7,8,18,19]. Mary was born in 1613 in England and died in Boston, Suffolk co., MA on 9 August 1688; she was 75. She, too, is buried in Copp's Hill Burial Ground in Boston, Suffolk co., MA. |
| CHILDREN | 7. | i. | James BILL, Jr. | James was born on 23 November 1651. |
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8. | ii. | Mary BILL | Mary became the second wife of Lieutenant & Captain John SMITH, son of Francis SMITH & Alice [surname not known] on 6 January 1662/3 in Reading, Middlesex co., MA or Boston, Suffolk co., MA. John & his parents are dealt with in detail in the Smith Register Report. In family genealogies, this Mary Bill is often confused with her aunt, who was born circa 1624 and came over on the Planter in 1635. Be careful! |
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9. | iii. | Sarah BILL | Please see her own page. |
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10. | iv. | Hannah BILL | Hannah was born circa 1647. |
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11. | v. | Jonathon BILL | Jonathan was born circa 1654. |
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12. | vi. | Joseph BILL | Joseph was born circa 1660. |
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13. | vii. | Joshua BILL | Joshua was born after 1660. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G8) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 1890 |
| SOURCES |
1. Coldham, Peter Wilson,
The Complete Book Of Emigrants,
(Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987),
[Coldham], 132. 2. The American Genealogist, [TAG], 60:195. 3. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635., (New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig1634-1635], I:289. 4. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 5. Boston, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records. [BostonVR or BVR], 6. 6. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:177. 7. [TAG], 30:67. 8. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [Dommerich], 48. 9. Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639. Also, Some Account of the Descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass., (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Company, 1883), [Tuttle], xxxii. 10. Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors; Their Part in Making American History, (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., ca. 1933), [RooseveltAnc], 89. 11. Bill, Ledyard, History of the Bill Family, (New York, 1867), [Bill], vii, 26-8. 12. [Howland, Elza Newton Woolsey], Family Records; Being Some Account of the Ancestry of My Father and Mother, Charles William Woolsey and Jane Eliza Newton, ([New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1900]), [Woolsey], 156. 13. Shurtleff, Benjamin, The History of the Town of Revere, (Boston: 1937), [Shurtleff-Revere], 87. 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid. 43. 16. Ibid. 36. 17. Ibid. 42. 18. [Bill], 28,44. 19. Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner, 5 vols., (Boston, Mass.: 1949, 1955), typescript, [Warner-Harrington], 581. 20. [TAG], 60:195-6. 21. Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality., (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [Hotten], 46. 22. [Coldham], 128. 23. [Hotten], 49. 24. Chelsea, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records, [ChelseaVR], 464. 25. Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, (Cambridge: C.W. Sever, 1873-85), [Sibley's Harv. Grad.], 2:505. 26. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 38:176. 27. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 209. 28. [Bill], 68. 29. Hassam, John T., The Cheever Family, (Boston: privately printed, 1896), [Cheever], 9. 30. Farwell, John Dennis, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605 to 1927, with Twelve Generations of Their Descendants; Also Many Lineages of Allied Families, 2 vols., (Rutland, Vt.: F.H. Farwell, 1929), [Farwell(1929)], 281. 31. [Savage], 1:371. 32. [Dommerich], 24. 33. Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, From its First Settlement to 1860, (2 vols.), (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), [Lexington], 4:337. 34. [Charlestown], 206. 35. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [IVR or IpswichVR], I:85 [Ct. R.]. 36. [Shurtleff-Revere], 427. 37. [ChelseaVR], 428. 38. [Shurtleff-Revere], 427-8. 39. Ibid. 428. 40. Ibid. 92. 41. Ibid. 139.
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