Person:James Capen (8)

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James Capen
d.Bef 1768
m. 25 Nov 1731
  1. Sarah Capen1734 -
  2. James Capen1736 - Bef 1768
  3. Thomas Capen1739 - Bef 1767
  4. Mary Capen1741 -
  5. Abigail Capen1741 - 1760
  6. William Capen1744 -
Facts and Events
Name[2] James Capen
Gender Male
Birth[1] Aug 1736 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[3] 29 Aug 1736 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death? Bef 1768 Not named in settlement of father's estate
References
  1. Joslyn, Roger D. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995)
    p. 341.

    James, son of James & Sarah Capen, b. Aug. [blank], 1736.

  2. Hayden, Charles Albert, and Jessie Hale Tuttle. The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Publishing House, 1929)
    p. 84-85.

    James Capen [#201, s/o James Capen, b. Charlestown 29 Aug 1736, d. Putney, VT, m. (1) [first child b. 1784] Elizabeth Bridges, m. (2) "(?)" Fitchburg 16 Jun 1811 Hepsibah Hodgkins.
    [Note: It is strongly possible that the Capen Genealogy has misidentified the James Capen who is discussed here. There are two major discrepancies: the death record in Putney of the man who died in 1830 shows his age as 66, which matches a birth about 1764. Yet that man's estate is administered by the son attributed by this source to the man born 1736. The 1800 census record in Leominster where the last three children are baptized is a man age 25-45, so clearly born after 1755. The James, s/o James, has a nephew James, born 1763 that matches these ages nearly perfectly, and would be about 20-21 at the first marriage instead of 48. The Capen Genealogy has nothing on the nephew other than his birth, but it seems like everything attributed to this man, probably belongs to the nephew.]

  3. First Church (Charlestown, Massachusetts), and James Frothingham, ed. Hunnewell. Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789. (Boston, Mass, 1880)
    p. 136.

    Baptized 1736
    Aug't ... 29, James S of James Jun'r & Sarah Capon.