Arrived with family and servant Mary Smith. Formerly a Lieutenant in the 6th Royal Battalion. Applied for 1000 acres at Peninsula for his son in 1830. However, his son Edward drowned near the bar of the Swan River on 2 October 1830. Fire destroyed all their possessions 16 March 1833. James died August 1830. Josephine bought 1200 acres at Australind in 1840 but departed the Colony in January 1848 per the 'Arpenteur' for South Australia. The Australind estate was bought by Waller Clifton in 1873.