!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Wyoming Cemetery, Paw Paw, Lee, IL1,34, James J. Braffet, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154187522
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, James Joshua Braffet, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/KHCL-KXB
!CENSUS: 1835 Yates, NY, James Braffet, https://web.archive.org/web/20031011135042/http://...om/~history/1835.htm
!CENSUS: 1840 New Windsor, Orange, NY, page 60
!CENSUS: 1850 Blooming Grove, Orange, NY, 312/312, Jas. Braffet
!CENSUS: 1855 Chester, Orange, NY, Jas. Braffit
!CENSUS: 1860 Paw Paw, Dekalb, IL, 3149/63, James Braffall
!CENSUS: 25-Jan-1870 Brooklyn, Lee, IL, 38/38, James Braffit
!OCCUPATION: Blacksmith
!CENSUS: 1880 Compton, Lee, IL, 25/25, James Braffut
!REFERENCE: 1892 Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, Illinois35, page 433, "James H. Braffet, M. D., of Paw Paw, is well known as one of the leading physicians of Lee County, whose skill, success in practice, and learning place him well at the head of his profession. He was born in the town of Florida, Orange County, N. Y., October 16, 1834. His father, James Braffett, for many years an honored citizen of this county, was born in the town of Monroe, Orange County, July 22, 1802, a son of John Braffet, who is supoosed to have been of Scotch ancestry. ..."
!REFERENCE: 1906 Lee, IL obituary for wife Malissa (Furman) Braffet36, daughters Sarah Braffet and Dora Braffet died in childhood
!REFERENCE: Braffet descendants, James J. Braffet, https://willbraffitt.org/roots/BraffittDescendants.txt
!REFERENCE: Frederick Family Tree29, Joshua Braffit
!NOTE: There is DNA evidence with a 4th-6th cousin match between a descendant of Mary Pomeroy Braffet and a descendant of Hezekiah Braffett.
!NOTE: The descendants of this family fairly consistently use the spelling "Braffet".