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| John White | Immigrant Ancestor | see FAMILY TREE |
| Born: Abt. 1597 Shalford, Essex, England | ||
| Died: 23 Jan 1683/84 Hartford, CT | In his will, dated 17 December 1683 and
proved 6 March 1683/4, "Mr. John White of Hartford" bequeathed to son
Nathaniel £30, movables, and part of "my oxpasture"; to son Daniel White
£20; to son Jacob White part of "my oxpasture" and moveables; "I empower my
executor to give to my daughter Hixton according to his discretion as he
shall see her need calls for"; "and whereas formerly I intended to give one
parcel of meadow land in great Ponset to Stephen Taylor, yet now being
forced to pay a great sum of money for the redemption of his house & homelot,
I now see cause to dispose of that land for payment of that debt, and shall
leave it to my executor with the advice of the overseers to give either to
him or the rest of my daughter Hixton's children as he shall see cause"; to
"my grandchild Stephen Taylor" various moveables; to "Sarah White the
daughter of my son Nathanaell" £5; to "the Reverend Mr. John Whiting my
honored pastor" £5; residue to be divided "among my grandchildren (viz)
Jonathan Gilbert son of my daughter Mary, my son Nathaniell's children, my
son John's children, my son Daniell's children & my daughter Sarah['s]
children, their sons to have as much more as their daughters"; "my wearing
apparel be divided amongst my sons"; "my son Nathaniell White" to be sole
executor and "my beloved friends Ensign Nathaniell Stanly and Stephen Hosmer"
to be overseers [Hartford PD Case #5928; Goodwin Anc 2:406-07; Manwaring
1:385-86]. The inventory of the estate of Elder John White deceased 23 January 1683[/4]" totalled £190 9s., of which £48 was real estate: "his lots in the west division," £12; "his oxpasture lying on the east side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld," £18; and "his oxpasture lying on the west side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld" [Hartford PD Case #5928; Manwaring 1:385]. |
WIFE
CHILDREN
Nathaniel White b. 1629 Messeng, Essex, England
The Children of Robert White of Messing Co., Essex, England, who settled in
Hartford and Windsor
It is very plausibly supposed that the John White who came over in the "Lion" in
1632 and settled first in Newtown, now Cambridge, in Massachusetts, and then
came with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church to Hartford in 1636, was the son
of Robert White of Messing. The record of his baptism has not been found. He was
not of age in 1617, when his father made his will, in which it was provided that
if he should marry without the approbation and consent of his mother, and of
Joseph Loomis of Braintree and William Goodwin of Bocking, his legacy of 200
pounds should be reduced to 100 pounds.
Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
ORIGIN: Messing, Essex
MIGRATION: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150]
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Hartford 1635, Hadley 1659, Hartford by 1671
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, bp. Messing 28 December 1623 [NEHGR 55:29]; no further record.
ii MARY, bp. Messing 16 July 1626 [NEHGR 55:29]; m. 29 January 1645/6 Jonathan
Gilbert [HaVR 606].
iii PHILIP (daughter), bp. Messing 21 December 1628 [NEHGR 55:29]; no further
record.
iv NATHANIEL, b. say 1630 (sworn for Middletown 1656 [RPCC 174]); m. (1) by 1653
Elizabeth _____ (daughter Elizabeth aged four and a half on 29 March 1658 [WMJ
297, 384]); (2) after 1692 Martha (Coit) Mould, daughter of John Coit and widow
of Hugh Mould [Goodwin Anc 2:408; MacDonough-Hackstaff 248-51].
v JOHN, b. about 1636 (aged twenty-one, November 1657 [WMJ 61]); m. by 1659
Sarah Bunce, daughter of Thomas Bunce (John Winthrop Jr. treated "White, Joh:
his wife" on 15 March 1659[/60] and "White, Sarah, about 17 y." on 7 May 1660 [WMJ
425]; on 2 April 1666 he treated "White [blank] widow daughter of Tho[mas] Buns"
[WMJ 638]).
vi DANIEL, b. say 1638; m. Hadley 1 November 1661 Sarah Crow [Pynchon VR 223]
vii SARAH b. about 1641 (aged sixteen years 17 March 1657/8 [WMJ 94]); m. (1) by
about 1664 Stephen Taylor; m. (2) Hadley 15 October 1666 Barnabas Hinsdale [Pynchon
VR 223 (bride's name given as "Mary")]; m. (3) Hatfield [blank] February 1678
Walter Hickson [Goodwin Anc 2:409, citing Hatfield VR 1:80].
viii JACOB, b. Hartford 8 October 1645 [HaBOP 576]; m. by 1669 Elizabeth Bunce
(on 8 July 1669 John Winthrop Jr. treated "White, Elis[abeth], wife of Jacob of
Hartford" [WMJ 935]; in his undated will (but about 1683) Thomas Bunce
bequeathed to "my daughter Elizabeth White" [Manwaring 1:283]).
ASSOCIATIONS: Three of John White's sisters came to New England with their
husbands: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis; Elizabeth, wife of WILLIAM GOODWIN; and
Anne, wife of John Porter [NEHGR 55:22-31].
COMMENTS: John White may have resided briefly in Middletown [Goodwin Anc
2:402-03].
On 7 March 1660/1 Connecticut court heard a case of Edward Stebbin and John
White as overseers for Mr. Haines's children against John Deming Jr. for debt [RPCC
223].
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