John White (abt. 1620 - 1691)

Born about 1620 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Frances (Jackson) White — married about 1640 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1691 at about age 71 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Parents are Unknown per sources listed.

John was born about 1620 based on his earliest records of 1639. It is assumed that he was born in England, as he is considered the first of his family in the new world. He passed away in 1691. ^[1]

John White was living in Watertown where the first inventory of estates was taken. This appears to have been as early as 1639. He then owned a Homestall of seven acres more or less bounded the south and east with the highway, the north with the swamp and the west with William Paine, bought from Ephraim Child.’ ^[2] “He remained in Watertown until 1650, when he moved to Muddy River (now Brookline), and bought from Thomas Oliver of Boston ‘50 acres upland 18 acres of marsh and six acres of fresh marsh in Muddy River ... for & in consideration of ... the full & just summe of one hundred & thirty pounds sterl. to be paid in good & merchantable corne & fatt cattle at prices current or as they shall be prized by two men indifferently chosen. “The deed conveying the property is dated ‘thirteenth day of the twelfth month one thousand six hundreth & ffifte.^[3] “He afterwards bought other tracts of land in Brookline, and became a large proprietor. His will, dated April 13, 1691, names wife Frances and three sons.

Sources

1. ↑ Thomas J. Lothrop, “John White of Watertown and Brookline, and some of his descendants,” New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., 52 (1898): 421-426
2. ↑ (Watertown Records, Lands, Grants and Possessions, p. 53.)
3. ↑ Papers of the White Family of Brookline, 1650-1807. Published by the Brookline Historical Publication Society, http://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/history/publications/seriesOne/whiteFamily.html

• Brookline Historical Publication Society, Publications of the Brookline Historical Publication Society, Brookline, MA: The Riverdale Press (1897), 41.
• Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 126-127.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 110.

Acknowledgments

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