Walter White

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N00364Nicholas White[1]

Male 1618 - 1697

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Birth Abt 1618 , , , England Find all individuals with events at this location [1]

Gender Male

Died 1697 Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location [1]

Person ID I20614 alger

Last Modified 05 Oct 2004

Father Walter White

Mother Mary Browne, b. Abt 1595, d. Yes, date unknown

Family ID F7491 Group Sheet

Family Susanna Humphrey, b. Abt 1615, d. Bef 1697, Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

Married Abt 1643 Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location [1]

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1. Elizabeth White, b. 9 Jun 1643, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 29 Oct 1698, Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

2. Nicholas White, b. Abt 1645, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 18 Jan 1728, Norton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

3. John White, b. Abt 1649, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 3 Sep 1726

4. Joseph White, b. Abt 1651, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 1724

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Family ID F7490 Group Sheet

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Nicholas probably did not meet Susanna Humphrey until after arriving in New England and settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman on 10 May 1643. In 1647 he bought a tract of land in that part of Dorchester that was later called Milton, Massachusetts, from Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Connecticut, but after building a house on the land there was a dispute as to the title and so he sued Wolcott on his Warranty and obtained judgment.

He became one of the founding proprietors of the iron bloomery in Taunton, Massachusetts, and moved to Taunton with his family by spring, 1655. He probably located near Scaddings Pond. He soon became the owner of a quarter of a saw mill situated on the Mill River, but the exact location is not known. Some of the residents of the area complained against the saw mill owners in an action in Plymouth Court for the mill having stopped the fish from the run up the stream to the ponds above. The jury found for the plaintiffs and the saw mill owners made a pssage way so that the herring could resume their accustomed visits to the ponds.

Nicholas White was not a prominent figure in church or public affairs in Taunton, but was involved in a number of land transactions including a brief part-ownership of Block Island. In addition to his land purchases, the record shows that he was also fined for a couple of indiscretions.

He was intestate when he died in in Taunton in 1697. His estate was administered by his son Nicholas White. The inventory was about 300 pounds. His estate was divided between his three sons and his daughter Elizabeth. Five small children were mentioned in his 1656 petition to the General Court, so one child apparently died young.

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* "The Nicholas White Family," by Thomas J. Lothrop (C. A. Hack & Son, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1902), p. 6 - 13

* Nicholas White section in "One Bassett Family in America," by Buell Burdett Bassette (F.A. Bassett Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1926), p. 790-793

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Alger Family Historian - email: Alger@alum.mit.edu [1]

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[S89] Web sites - electronic file cabinet, GEDCOM of rshdsh database from rootsweb.com - 14 Aug 2004.

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