Deacon James Trowbridge
M, b. circa 1636, d. 22 May 1717
James was born circa 1636 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall. On 30 December 1659, he first married Margaret Atherton.1 James married Margaret Jackson, daughter of Deacon John Jackson and Margaret (?), on 30 January 1674 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. After the death of his father-in-law, in 1675, he was chosen to become deacon of the church there in Cambridge.That same year, he purchased 85 acres of land, with a dwelling house and outbuildings thereon, from Deputy Governor Danforth. He held several public offfices of the town during the remainder of his life. James & Margaret had children: Experience [11/01/1675][m. Samuel Wilson], Thomas [12/09/1677], Deliverance [12/31/1679][m. Eleazar Ward], James [9/30/1682], William [11/19/1684], Abigail [4/11/1687] & Caleb [11/07/1692]. James departed this life on Saturday, 22 May 1717 in Newton. He was buried there in East Parish Burying Ground. The inscrption on his tombstone reads: Here Lyes the body of Deacon James Trowbridge deceased May ye 22nd 1717 in ye 81st year of his age.2