Alexander
White
Sr.
Born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (McMurtie) White
— married
21 Mar 1736 in Sussex, New Jersey
Descendants 
Father of
William White Sr, William Gaston White, Elizabeth White, William White, Alexander White Jr., Mary White, Peregrine White, Prudence (White) Clifford, Samuel Alexander White, Sarah (White) Calkins, Henry White and John White
Died before
before age 66
in Greenwich, Sussex, New Jersey, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Feb 2011
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Biography
Alexander White, Sr. is not accepted as a child of Jonathan White by the Mayflower Society.
- Please do not reconnect Jonathan White as father.
- "The authors found no evidence to support the claim of Roscoe R. White in White Family Record (1939) pp 22-5, that Jonathan White m. 8 Aug 1708 Margaret Elizabeth Alexander, b. Ca. 1670 and had 2 children: Alexander b. 8 Sept. 1709, and Margaret. Alexander is said to have d. Greenwich NJ in Sept. 17767 having had 10 children, including one name Peregrine. When Roscoe White submitted this lineage to the Mayflower Society, the only evidence offered was a record in a family Bible printed in 1870, with all entries in the same hand. The Society does not accept this lineage."[1]
He was born on 08 Sep 1709 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
He migrated west to New Jersey.
Alexander White married on 21 Mar 1736 in Sussex, New Jersey to Mary McMurtrie (b: 18 Apr 1711; d: 1781) and their children included [2] ...
- William Holmes White, b: 1737; d: 1792 Oxford, Sussex, NJ; m: Martha Matilda Mason
- Elizabeth White, b: 1743
- Alexander McMurtie White, b: 04 Jun 1752; d: 1815; m: Mary Beavers
- Peregrine White, b: 1754
- Mary White, b: 1754; d: 1816; m: James Russell (not Joseph Beavers)
- Prudence White, b: 1756; d: 1803 Sussex, NJ; m: (tentative) James Clifford on FamilySearch.org it shows there is no entry for James Clifford as the spouse of Prudence White. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLCC-CX7 If anyone can show that James Clifford is the spouse of James Clifford please provide any documentation.
- Samuel A. White, b: 16 Mar 1758; d: 21 Oct 1841 Briggsdale, Pickaway, OH; m: 04 Apr 1780 Jane Stewart
- Sarah White, b: 1759; m: Abner Calkins
- Henry White, b: 1762
- John White b: 1764.
He prospered as a shoemaker, farmer and lawyer. The Whites built a most imposing home in he Warren County, New Jersey region, proudly named "White Hall". Gen. George Washington was said to have stayed at "White Hall" in in 1780 en route to his army encampment at Morristown, New Jersey. William Henry Harrison, the Whig who opened up Ohio and Indiana for settlement after defeating the Shawnee Indians and Tecumseh at Tippecanoe, delivered a presidential campaign speech from the upper veranda of "White Hall".
Alexander White and his wife Mary (Clifford) saw three of their sons join the fight for the colonies' independence from England.
- "Oxford Township claims credit for the first two soldiers from our country to join the revolution ... Capt. McMurtrie and Lt. William White, both of whom were in the Sussex County Committee of Safety, joined the Army at Boston, MA right after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Lt. White is the son of Alexander White."
That battle was fought on 17 June 1775 when William White was approx 38 yrs old. His son Alexander also fought in the American Revolutionary War. His youngest son, Samuel White, was 18 when he enlisted a year later.
Alexander White, Sr. drew his last Will and testament on 07 Sep 1776 which named his wife Mary and his son William, as his executors. His only children that were not mentioned in his last Will were Peregrine, Henry and John.
He died in September 1776 in Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. [3]
Family Members
Parents: Jonathan Bassett? White (1658-1737) m: 09 Aug 1709 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA to Margaret Elizabeth Alexander (1670-1718).
Parents removed from profile as unsupported by primary source documents. See source "Mayflower Families for Five Generations" p17
Sources
- ↑ Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White. Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) p. 17
- ↑ http://penrose.org/getperson.php?personID=I62058&tree=penrose
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #95830567 for unknown burial of Alexander White
- "Mayflower Families through Five Generations" by Ruth Wilder Sherman and Robert Moody, both FASG, re-edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; published by Society of Mayflower Descendants in Plymouth, MA in 2006; v13 p17 Family of William White, General.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alexander by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alexander:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alexander by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alexander:
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~0.78%
Howard White
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bebo_white
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~0.78%
Alice Green :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Barbara (Eubank) Jones :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bej093045
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~0.78%
Dennis Todaro :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch BZ2937665 [compare], Ancestry member hogdaddee
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~0.78%
Lindsay (Huffman) Smith :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Anonymous (Leslie) Haney :
23andMe, GEDmatch M034764 [compare]
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~0.39%
Debra (Barnica) Anderson :
23andMe, GEDmatch XQ4985028 [compare], yourDNAportal DEB5e517d0e
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XQ4985028 [compare], yourDNAportal DEB5e517d0e, Ancestry member debsanderson92
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~0.39%
Bill White :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Lynn Barnica :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Tyler Huffman :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member tbhuff115
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~0.39%
Delaney Huffman :
AncestryDNA
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