WHITE/CROSHAW/PAGE

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HENRY WHITE II, OF YORK COUNTY, VA., IN BRUTON PARISH, MARR. TO MARY CROSHAW.      I AM SIMPLY ATTEMPTING TO RECONCILE THE INFORMATION PUT OUT BY RESEARCHERS THAT SHOW THIS COUPLE, SOON AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE IN BRUTON PARISH, YORK CO.,VA., ---AS MOVING TO THE PASQUOTANK REGION, IN N.C.----WHERE THEY HAD ABT 5 OR 6 CHILDREN.   AFTER MARY DIED, IT IS SAID, HENRY II MARRIED TO DEMARIS PAGE, AND THEY HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN, ABOUT 8 OR 9, I BELIEVE IT WAS RECORDED.    IS  THIS  HENRY WHITE, THE SAME HENRY THAT MARRIED MARY CROSHAW, THE SON OF HENRY WHITE THE ELDER, AND HIS 1ST WIFE, REBECCA ARNOLD?
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These are different Henry Whites.  The Henry White who married Mary Croshaw did not go to NC, nor did his children.  Those were Quaker Whites.  The Whites of whom you speak stayed in VA.

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Joseph m. (1) Magdalen Baskervyle (d. 1699), (2) Mary ------. In his will (Ibid, Book 14, p. 76), dated Feb. 27, 1705/6, proved Mar. 10, 1710/11, he mentions wife Mary, to son Geo., who is under 21, . Frances White, to dau. Mary White her mother's maiden ring; wife to be extrx. With Mr. Ambrose Cobbs "& my brother-in-law Geo. Baskerville".Joseph married Magdalen Baskerville, daughter of John Baskerville and Mary Barb

Henry White

  • Born: Abt 1631
  • Marriage: Mary Croshaw
  • Died: 6 Jan 1671 about age 40

Mary Croshaw, eldest dau. of Maj. Jos. M. (1) Henry White who, according to his deposition, (Ibid Bk. 4, p. 63) was born about 1631, and died Jan. 6, 1671/2 (Bruton Par. Reg.). We have been unable to trace Henry White positively prior to Feb. 15, 1663/4, when with Peter Gill he patented 1000 a. upon the s. side of Chickahominy Main Swamp beg. At a corner oak by the upper Westover path by a great branch (S. L. O. Bk. 5, p. 333), but he probably had been resident in York for some years. Peter Gill was most likely the son of Stephen Gill who had patented land as early as 1636 and who in his will, dated July 15, 1646, mentions son Stephen & all my children (York Bk. 1, p. 181). His widow seems to have m. Phillip Walker, considering the two following items: Joseph Croshaw on Oct. 16, 1654, 

The children of Henry & Mary (Croshaw) White were: Henry d. April 17, 1667; Mary, Margaret d. May 21, 1664, Ann d. Oct. 17, 1669, Joseph, Wm., Unity & Rebecca d. 1686 (dates from Bruton Par. Reg.) The will of Henry White Sr. dated Dec. 20, 1671, proved Jan. 10, 1671/2 (York Bk. 4, p. 369) leaves to his wife his lands in Marston Par. Until his son Joseph comes of age, to son Wm. 300 a. in New Kent, to daus. Mary, Unity, & Rebecca 300 a. each lying in New Kent, "to Maj. John West £5, to Richd. Barnes 20 s. to buy him a castor (Castor was another word for beaver but later included other furs; here it means a fur hat), "to John Daniel & Rice Jones, ditto." Of the other five children named in this will, Joseph m. (1) Magdalen Baskervyle (d. 1699), (2) Mary ------. In his will (Ibid, Book 14, p. 76), dated Feb. 27, 1705/6, proved Mar. 10, 1710/11, he mentions wife Mary, to son Geo., who is under 21, his mother's wedding ring when he attains majority; dau. Frances White, to dau. Mary White her mother's maiden ring; wife to be extrx. With Mr. Ambrose Cobbs "& my brother-in-law Geo. Baskerville". Rebecca, Joseph's sister, d. unmarried, 1686 (Bruton par. Reg.). Unity m. (1) Ralph Graves, (2) Thos. Cripps and died 1695. Mary m. Wm. Davis and had at least 4 children as the following item shows: King Wm. Rec, vol. 1, p. 9, May 20, 1702, "John Davis of King Wm. Co. with consent of my father. Wm. Davis & in consideration of the marriage to be arranged between my sister Sarah Davis & Wm. Holladay have assigned to Wm. Holiday 75 a. on Mattapony as my part of 300 a. fallen to me on the death of my aunt Rebecca White, bounded as follows, up from the river upon Scotland line, bounded by the line of Mr. Richd. Littlepage on one side & along the line belonging to Ralph Graves on the other side. Wit: Richd. Gissedge, Sarah X Gissedge, Wm. Noyes." Since the grantor in this deed owned ¼ of the tract, there must have been three other owners. The father's consent was necessary since he had a life right in the land. Wm., son of Henry & Mary Croshaw White, was in 1702 living in King Wm. Co. on the land formerly lying in New Kent which had been bequeathed him by his father. He is identified in thiHis wife Susanna, dau. of Rice Jones, & Elizabeth Crowshaw d. 1701 (Bruton Par. Reg.) After selling his King Wm. Land he returned to York Co. for the same Par. Reg. Records his death in 1703. ll, William Davis, the Old Henry White place, and Elias Downes (in the process of becoming John Waller). None of those had a known Croshaw connection. William Davis, was either the brother or brother-in-law of the wife of Henry White, Decd., for his son John inherited most, if not all of the White land from his Aunt Sarah White. The White land, identified in Pamunkey Neck patents as early as 1670, fit no description of land obtained by either King's patent or Indian deed by Major Joseph Croshaw or his family and in-laws. Henry White of Mattaponi was not the Henry White of Bruton Parish (namely Williamsburg and its environs). Henry of Mattaponi was married to a Sarah. Henry of Bruton Parish was married to Mary Croshaw. The two Henrys were likely of similar age, but one was a man of substance in a highly civilized environment, while the other was carving out a plantation on the open frontier with Indians all around.

The land where Henry White of Mattaponi was located--on the South bank of the Mattaponi River on Chickahominy Indian land--was initially a 1654 patent of 2,000 acres to Francis & Mannering Hammond, Cavaliers from England during Cromwell's Commonwealth. (In 1660 the House of Burgesses required Major General Mannering Hammond, his brother having died, to get permission from the Chickahominy to keep the land, and to satisfy any claims the Indians had for reimbursement.) In 1667 John Talbott and Elias Downes received a patent for 1,600 acres which adjoined the Hammond patent on the upriver side. In 1696 John Waller bought 939 acres, including all the Mattaponi River frontage, from Downes, who had title to entire tract. By then, Davis Davenport had a plantation and landing adjoining Downes on the upriver side.


I If William White of Bruton identified himself as a "Carpenter," he was a Master Carpenter and a Great Planter, and he was a member of the elite, or his son Joseph, who obtained a 900-acre patent in 1694, including land that Joseph Croshaw had given his father William White and hundreds of additional acres, would not have served as a Bruton Parish vestryman. These Whites were far superior in social level to frontiersman William White who adjoined the Talbott-Downes land on the Mattaponi. 

Captain John West, Jr., who also married a daughter of Joseph Croshaw, was located at West Point at the tip of Pamunkey Neck, seventeen miles as the crow flew ESE of Davis Davenport's plantation and landing of 1696. The twists and turns of the Mattaponi River required at least twenty miles of water travel between Captain West's manor and Davis Davenport's landing. Sea going ships could go fifteen miles further upriver beyond Davenport Landing until the river silted up from upland cultivation and runoff. West, son of Captain John West, Sr., one time Royal Governor of Virginia, grew up on a York County plantation next door to Major Joseph Croshaw's, so his marriage to Unity Croshaw, the Major's daughter, was par for the course.
 

Henry married Mary Croshaw, daughter of Maj. Joseph Croshaw and Unknown

Henry White

  • Marriage: Rebecca Arnold

 

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