Earlier generations are very tentative and subject to change as further evidence is uncovered.
Additional thanks to Sybil Baker, Dorothy Pattison, The McClanahan Society , and various email contacts for sharing their research. As usual, any misinterpretaion of shared data or errors in using it to construct this narrative are the responsibily of the compiler. It may be that records for his son James have been incorrectly read as referring to the elder James. Conjecture is that he may have had some non-physical, or social, connection to the Lunenburg County. No record of a wife or children has been found for James.