 He was in search of someone to be appointed first Chief Magistrate of the new State, and he wrote offering the post to James O'H.– This must have been close to 1847, as I think that 1847 must also have been the year of marriage between James and his wife.She was Mary Anne Finley, of Dunham, Quebec and she was 17 years old when she married James, who was about 27 then.