Complex sentence: Joshua James was born on November 22,1826 in Hull, Massachusetts, the ninth of twelve children to Esther Dill, who was from Hingham, Massachusetts, and William James, who had emigrated from Dokkum, Holland as a young man.
Split into simpler sentences: Joshua James was born on November 22,1826, in Hull, Massachusetts. He was the ninth of twelve children to Esther Dill, who was from Hingham, Massachusetts, and William James who had emigrated from Dokkum, Holland as a young man.