John James, the immigrant ancestor of Robert E. James, was a native of Pembrokeshire, Wales, and whose ancestry in Wales is a matter of church records for many generations; he was born in April, 1660. He married in Wales. He and his wife Elizabeth were members of Ridilin Church, in Pembrokeshire. He and his family, several of whom were the adults, came to America in 1710, and finally settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a tract of one thousand acres of land in New Britain township, upon which he passed the remainder of his life.