Thomas White VII (1645 - 1706)

Born 1645 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Pratt) White — married 25 Mar 1672 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 11 Apr 1706 at about age 61 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

Thomas White, son of Thomas White immigrant to Weymouth and his unknown wife, was born say 1645. He married Mary _____ by about 1670.^[1]

"In 1993, Janet Ireland Delorey and Dean Crawford Smith argued that "the evidence seems to favor the conclusion that Macuth Pratt's 'daughter White' was the wife of Thomas (2) White" [TAG 68:29-31], but in 1996 Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn were less certain of this identification [Kempton Anc 1:498-500, 505-6]."^[1]

Marriage

Husband: Thomas White

Wife: Mary Pratt

Child: Thomas White

Marriage:

Date: 1669/1670

Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Name Thomas White Gender Male Birth 1644 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.

Marriage est 1669 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA to Mary Pratt.

Death 11 Apr 1706 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA.

Parents and Siblings

F. Thomas White abt 1599 - abt 1679

1.Captain Joseph White est 1636 - 1706

2.Hannah White est 1638 - 1723/4

3.Captain Samuel White abt 1642 - 1699

4.Thomas White est 1643 - 1706

5.Capt. Ebenezer White abt 1649 - 1703

Spouse and Children

H. Thomas White est 1643 - 1706

W. Mary Pratt - 1722/23

m. est 1669

No children listed

'Chidren, surname WHITE: ... THOMAS, born say 1643 (since his father is called Sr. in 1664 ...); died Braintree, MA 11 April 1706 (BVR, 696); married say 1670 MARY (_____), born say 1640, probably the "Mrs. White the aged" who was buried Braintree 3 January 1722/3 ...'

Thomas White of Braintree executed his last will on 28 March 1706, witnessed by Jacob Nash, Stephen French and William Trask, making bequests to:^[2]

• wife Mary White (half of homelands during her natural life, two cows & six sheep, the best of my silver, half of household goods at her disposal)
• son Thomas White (1 acre salt marsh in Braintree adjoining sd. Thos. White, 5 or 6 acres of fresh meadow and upland upon Small Brooke River, 1/4 of my outlands and cedar swamps, £30);
• son Samuel White (half of 20 acres adjoining his home landed bounded s. by Colnl. Hunt, half of a pond of salt marsh I bought of William Veasy, 1/4 of my outlands and cedar swamps);
• son Joseph White (half of the land adjoining Samuel's homeland, bounded s. on Col. Hunt, about 20 acres, half of the salt marsh bought of Wm. Veasy, 1/4 outlands and cedar swamps);
• son Ebenezer White (half of my housing and lands adjoining on both sides of the way, upland and meadow immediately, the other half after my wife's decease, 1/4 of outlans and cedar swamp, provided he pay £10 after my wife's decease to whom she shall dispose of it in her lifetime, and £10 to my grandson Thomas White, son of my son Thomas and 40s. to each of the eldest of my grandchildren of my sons & daughter when they attain to ye age of 21 years);
• daughter Mary Holebrooke (my young orchard, 3 acres adjoining my homelands, great brass kettle and a cow);
• residuum to be divided equally between four sons and daughter above named.

The will was proved on 16 May 1706.^[2]

Research Notes

Uncertain origins in terms of father and spouse of Mary (Pratt) White:^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. p. 341.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Last will and testament, ex. 28 March 1706, pr. 16 May 1706. Estate of Thomas White, images 81-2.
3. ↑ Delorey, Janet Ireland "Mary (Pratt) White of Weymouth, Massachusetts: Further Considerations" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Reference Volume 68 (1993), pages 29-31. Subscription

• 1.0 1.1 Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008), 1:502, 505.
• Bates, Samuel. Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. (Randolph, Massachusetts : D.H. Huxford, 1886), page 696.
• Estate of Thomas White, 16 May 1706. Suffolk County Probate Case No. 2972; Massachusetts, Suffolk County, probate records. "Probate and Family Court Department FILE PAPERS, Box 18 Case 2961 to Case 3150, 1 Jan 1636-31 Dec 1894," FamilySearch, Film # 102,992,159, images 79-84.
• Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, Pages 339-342.