Family:James Andrews and Susan Mitton (1)

Dorcas, wife of James-2 ANDREWS (Samuel-1), is frequently but incorrectly identified as a daughter of Michael-1 & Elizabeth (CLEEVE) MITTON, thanks in part to the following source: Robert J. Dunkle, "The Andrews-Cogswell-Page Bible," Genealogist 3 (1982): 45-95. John Brooks Threlfall, Twenty-six great migration colonists to New England & their origins (Madison, Wisconsin: John Brooks Threlfall, 1993) has been digitized and is accessible via FamilySearch.org. The specific URL for the PDF is https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE197629. Critical corrections to Dunkle from Threlfall include the following: 1) It was James-3 ANDREWS (James-2, Samuel-1) who married Sarah-2 MITTON (Michael-1); 2) Sarah-2 (MITTON) ANDREWS died without issue so the identity of the second wife of James-3 ANDREWS (and the mother of his daughter, Jemima) is unknown; 3) Michael-1 & Elizabeth (CLEEVE) MITTON had no daughter named Dorcas; 4) The origins of Dorcas, wife of James-2 ANDREWS (Samuel-1), are unknown. For other corrections to Dunkle, see also: 1) David L. Greene, FASG, "Correspondence," Genealogist 3 (1982): 263-4; 2) Nathaniel Lane Taylor, FASG,"the bearth of all my Children was... (Andrews-Mackworth)," (15 December 2008), an entry in his blog, A Genealogist's Sketchbook (http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/210). Unfortunately, Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 7 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), 1:56-8 did not include any of Greene's corrections or Threlfall's corrections to Dunkle (which were available) nor any of Taylor s corrections to Dunkle (which were not yet available).

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
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   JAMES, Saco, s. of Samuel of the same, rem. with his mo. on her sec. m. to Falmouth, m. Sarah, d. of Michael Mitton, had Elisha, wh. was a lieut. as early as 1689, under Church in his campaign against the E. Ind. and prob. James and Joshua that both d. bef. the f. He abandon. Falmouth in the war, and d. at Boston 1704, leav. wid. Margaret, whose surname is not seen, the s. Elisha, and three ds. Rebecca, w. of Jonathan Adams, of Boston; Dorcas, w. of Ebellezer Davenport, of Dorchester; and Jane, w. of Robert Davis, but perhaps she had former h.