William Jameson

1674 - Aft 1734  (60 years)

• Name	William Jameson  [1]
  Birth	16 Mar 1674	Aberdeen, Scotland   [2, 3]
  Some say that William Jameson was born in Leith, County of Edinburgh, Scotland [2]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Fall 1718	Casco Bay, ME
  From Ulster, aboard the ship "Robert"
  JIA ID	0963 - p.185-186
  Death	Aft 1734	Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME   [2]
  Person ID	I149	Maine

  
  

  DNA Tests	2 DNA tests are associated with William Jameson
  	Test Type	Taken by	Haplogroup	Test Information
  	Y-DNA-37	Edward William Jameson	I-M253	Most distant ancestor: William Jameson,   b. 16 Mar 1674, Aberdeen, Scotland d. Aft 1734, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME Most recent common ancestor: William Jameson,   b. 16 Mar 1674, Aberdeen, Scotland d. Aft 1734, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME
  	Y-DNA-37	John Andrew Jameson	I-M253	Most distant ancestor: William Jameson,   b. 16 Mar 1674, Aberdeen, Scotland d. Aft 1734, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME Most recent common ancestor: William Jameson,   b. 16 Mar 1674, Aberdeen, Scotland d. Aft 1734, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME

  
  

  Father	Robert Jameson,   b. c.1645, Scotland
  Mother	Isobell Clarke,   b. c.1645, Scotland
  Marriage	2 Jan 1662	Aberdeen, Scotland   [4]
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Adam,   b. 25 May 1673, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. Aft 1728, ME (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	21 May 1692	Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland   [5]
  	William and Margaret (Adams) Jameson OPR Marriage Record
  Children	1. Patience Jameson   2. Agnes Jameson,   b. 13 Jul 1693, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. bef.1696, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 2 years)   3. Agnes Jameson,   b. 1 Apr 1696, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland   4. Jennet Jameson,   b. 21 Jul 1700, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland + 5. Margaret Jameson,   b. 28 Mar 1703, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 27 Oct 1760, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., ME (Age 57 years) + 6. Martin Jameson,   b. 1705, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland d. 3 Apr 1760, Maine (Age 55 years) + 7. Mary Jameson,   b. c.1707, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland d. Windham, Cumberland Co., ME + 8. Samuel Jameson,   b. 1709, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland d. c.1767, Meduncook (now Friendship), Knox Co., ME (Age 58 years) + 9. Martha Jameson,   b. c.1714, County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland d. 1771, Thomaston, Knox Co., ME (Age 57 years) + 10. Alexander Jameson,   b. 1711-1717, Ulster, Ireland or Maine d. Jan 1800, Meduncook (now Friendship), Lincoln (now Knox) Co., ME (Age 83 years) + 11. Paul Jameson,   b. 17 Oct 1728, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., ME d. 23 May 1803, Meduncook Plantation, (now Friendship), Knox Co., ME (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Issues & Analysis

  William Jameson (1674-1734) Who was he? Who exactly was this William Jameson and where did he really come from?

  
  

• Notes

  There is considerable confusion as to the origins of this particular William Jameson, his wife, her origin and the births origins of their children. There is however, no question or confusion that they existed in Maine during Colonial times, as named, apart perhaps from the correct identification of William's wife. More details and an analysis of this issue can be found here. Sometimes thought to be this William Jameson. However E.O.Jameson said of this, "There is a coincidence of some interest in the followiwing fact, that another William Jameson, son of William Jameson, born about 1675 in the county of Edinburugh, Scotland, from the province of Ulster, Ireland, arrived from over the seas, Aug. 4, 1718, in the port of Boston, Massachussetts Bay, and a little later, with a few others, sailed for the coast of Maine and landed in Falmouth, where he settled and became the ancestor of The Jamesons in Maine. From anything which appears, this William Jameson, from the north of Ireland, knew nothhing of the then late William Jameson, tailor, of Charleston, Mass, or that his heirs owned land in the vicinity, but he and his party dropped anchor in Casco Bay, and he established his home not far from the location of his hundred acres of land at that very time held in the Jameson name, in Falmouth, Me. Bearing the same name, ownership of land in the same vicinity about the same period has led sometimes to the wrong conclusion that they were one and the same person. [6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] E.O. Jameson, Jamesons in America, (The Rumford Press - Concord, NH), p.20. Pages 183-186 - The Jamesons in Maine - The Jamesons in Massachusetts. [S1] E.O. Jameson, Jamesons in America, (The Rumford Press - Concord, NH). Pages 183-186 - The Jamesons in Maine. [S22] Birth Records. O.P.R. Births # 168/A 0050 0034 (Aberdeen) National Records of Scotland [S23] Marriage Record. O.P.R. Marriages # 168A 0120 0483 (Aberdeen) National Records of Scotland [S23] Marriage Record. O.P.R. Marriages # 597 50 11 National Records of Scotland [S1] E.O. Jameson, Jamesons in America, (The Rumford Press - Concord, NH), p.11.