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 1737 - 1803 (~ 65 years)
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| Name |
Zachariah JAMES |
| Christened |
13 Nov 1737 |
Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
12 Mar 1803 |
Harbledown, Kent, England [3] |
| Person ID |
I4528 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
William JAMES, b. Abt 1695, of Dunkirk, Kent, England , bur. 24 Oct 1779, Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England (Age ~ 84 years) |
| Mother |
Patience, d. 7 Feb 1745, Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England |
| Married |
Abt 1721 |
| Family ID |
F1053 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary BLACKNE |
| Married |
21 Dec 1766 |
Deal, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Eleanor JAMES, c. 14 Feb 1768, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 2. Zachariah JAMES, c. 16 Jul 1769, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 3. Peter JAMES, c. 23 Jun 1771, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 4. Mary JAMES, c. 9 Mar 1773, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 5. Sophia JAMES, c. 18 Feb 1776, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 6. Sarah JAMES, c. 8 Sep 1777, Harbledown, Kent, England |
| | 7. Patience JAMES, c. 15 Jun 1783, Harbledown, Kent, England |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F1710 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- There are two points of interest in the physical description of Zachariah as found in the Militia description book: I have to wonder at what point in time he had been afflicted with the small pox. Was our Sarah ever exposed to it or had the disease struck him after she had left home? There is an indication from the Boughton-under-Blean church registers that smallpox had hit the parish fairly hard during 1757 with a larger outbreak having occurred during 1759. It may well be that this was the time during which Zachariah contracted the disease.
The second point is the blue spot over his eye brow. A current friend of mine also has a blue spot, but on his left forearm. That mark, I am told, was left behind after he had been jabbed most savagely with the point of a lead pencil. Upon healing, inasmuch as it was the underlying vein that had received the most severe injury no epidermal scar had been left by the attack, just the blue spot to mark the point of entry of the pencil. I can only think that perhaps Zachariah had encountered some very sharp pointed object and was quite probably very lucky that that object had not taken his eye out.
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- [S79] Court of Quarter Sessions, East Kent, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), 1774.
Zachariah James, labourer born in the Ville of Dunkirk aged about 37 years, 5 feet 6 inches high, dark complexion, dark brown hair, grey eyes, slightly pitted with the small pox, a blue spot upon the left eye brow. Date 1 October, 1774
Description Book, East Kent Militia. Bounty paid to Zachariah James for volunteering was 5.5.0.
- [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England, LDS Film #1836199, 13 Nov 1737.
Zachariah son of William and Patience James of Dunkirk.
- [S33] Bishop's Transcript, England, Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Harbledown, Kent, England, 12 Mar 1803.
aged 67 on burial
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