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Rev. John White MA

Born before 6 Jan 1575 in Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Son of John White and Isabel (Bawle) White

Brother of Mary (White) Terry, Josias White BD, Martha (White) Moore, Stephen White and Elizabeth (White) Gardner

Husband of Anne Burges — married 1606 [location unknown]

Father of John White Jr., Samuel White, Josiah White and Nathaniel White

Died 21 Jul 1648 after age 73 in Dorchester, Dorset, England

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Biography

John White was born before 6 January 1574 at Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, England.^[1] He was christened 6 January 1575 at Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England.^[2] He was the son of:

John White, yeoman,^[3]
and Isabel, dau. of John Bawle of Lichfield, Staffordshire.^[3]

Massachusetts Bay Company...^[3]

Wikipedia -- "John White (1575 – 21 July 1648) was the rector of a parish in Dorchester, Dorset, England. He was instrumental in obtaining charters for the New England Company, and the Massachusetts Bay Company. He took a close personal interest in the settlement of New England. [. . .] White himself never sailed to America. About 1623 he interested himself in sending out a colony of Dorset men to settle in Massachusetts, allowing nonconformists to enjoy liberty of conscience. The attempt by the Dorchester Company to plant a colony at Cape Ann with Thomas Gardner as Overseer, at what would become Gloucester, Massachusetts, did not prove at first successful; in the previous decade, only about 500 English colonists had established a foothold, and this Company was wound up by 1625. White then recruited emigrants from the western counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon, who set sail a few years later as a better-supported expedition and organized church aboard the ship Mary and John."

John attended Winchester College (aka Wykeham's School) in 1595 and then entered New College, Oxford University where he received his B.A. 12 April 1597 and an M.A. 16 Jan 1600/01. He became the rector of Trinity parish in Dorchester and soon after vicar of Fering both in 1605^[4].

Siblings

Josias, rector of Hornchurch, Essex, 1614–23. Josias was the father of James White, merchant of Boston, Massachusetts.^[3]

Marriage

He married Anne Burges,^[3] sister of John Burges in 1606. Wikipedia, citing Oxford DNB, states that Anne was the daughter of John Burges of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.^[3]

Anne (Burges) White died circa 1645.

children

John and Agnes had four sons, who are listed in Vis. of Hants., 1634.^[5] They're also named in the will of Mary Terry will, dated 1637.^[6]

1 .John White, Rector of Pimperne, Dorset (bp. 27 Dec 1607 Stockton, Wiltshire - d. aft. 1672),

baptised by John the Patriarch's brother in law John Terry who was rector there. Educated at St Catharine's College Cambridge from 1631, he earned his BA in 1634/5,^[7] and an MA in 1638.

His appointment as rector of Pimperne was approved by Parliament on 7 July 1646, but church records show his institution as 15 September 1646 and his patron to be Rev Charles King. According to Rose-Troup he may also have served as curate in charge in Dorchester during his fathers absence in London.

He quit his living at Pimperne during the Restoration, and appears to have assisted Mr Lamb at Bere Regis 1662-65, as Calamy refers to him in 1665 as living at the tithing of Holt in the parish of Wimborne Minster in Dorset and to be 'late curate of Beer'.^[8] This appears to tie up with the assessment of a 'Mr White' at Beer Regis for hearth tax (4 hearths) and then the appointment of Thomas Baskett as curate of Beer in 1665. Calamy's final reference is to him being licenced as a Presbyterian at Morden in Dorset on 8th May 1672 but no record has so far been clearly identified of his marriage or death.

2. Samuel White (d. 1660),

goldsmith with a shop in Dorchester by 1640 and of sufficient stature within the community by that date for the Corporation to entrust repair of one of the Maces carried by Serjeants of the Mace at the ordination of the Mayor.

He married twice. First to Sarah, dau. of Edward Cuttance of Weymouth. Issue: Hester.^[5]

m.2 [...]. Issue: Anne and Samuel.

Samuel may have died in 1661, as town accounts show payment for silver work commissioned on town maces was being made to 'Mr Samuel Whites wife'.

3. Josiah White (d. 1674), merchant of Dorchester & Rouen.

m. Margery, dau. of Nicholas Hallett of Bradpole. Issue: John (bef. 1634).

4. Nathaniel White, unmarried in 1634 Visitation, which describes him as a captain.^[5]

appointed executor of his fathers meager estate and appears to have contracted heavy debts as a merchant. In 1647 £20 of his debts was left as a bequest in the will of Samuel Bushrod, son of Richard Bushrod (1575-1628), to Samuel's destitute niece called Mary Whitefield.

Nathaniel is said to have been in Captain Joyce's troup which hotly pursued Charles II after the battle of Worcester on 3 Sep 1651. Interestingly there is an entry in Dorchester records dated 13 Feb 1651/2 when he is referred to as Captain Nathaniel White and paid £3. 9s 1d the balance of his fathers account due from the Brewhouse. And "out of our respect to his father and family it is ordered that he shall have given to him the sum of £5 and more as a boone at his departure towards Garnsey" . This suggests that he left Dorchester after the Civil War.

Will

Date: 29 Mar 1648 Dorchester, Dorset
Proved: 14 Jun 1649 London

John made his will on 29 Mar 1648 in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It reads (spelling is as shown in will):

Johannis WHITE: Imprs: [Impremise:] I doe wth all humble reverence and thankfullnes, acknowledge and adore ye infinite goodnes and mercie of God whoe hath bene pleased to sett mee apart unto this greate worke of the Ministery of his Gospell in such aplace where I have found his gracious hand wth mee that mye Labors have bene well accepted and produced such effects as I have cause to looke upon wth my comfort and thanekfull acknowledgmt and hath borne mee upp wth his owne hand in despite of ye powere and Malice of those that have endeavoured, as much as lay in them, to hinder mee in my course

2ly: ffor the people wherein he hath intrusted mee I bequeath unto them those truthes That I have from time to time delived unto them as the Counsells of God in ye bowells of Jesus Christ, beseeching them that they soe adhere and cleave unto them as the grounds of their faith and rules of their practice and suffer not themselves to bee carried upp and downe wth every winde of Doctrine wth howsoever seemingly plausable at ye first vewe by the Novelty thereof will certenly prove a meanes in time of unsetling of them from the maine foundations, and this I lay upon them as my stricter charge of the observation thereof they shall give an account to Christ Jesus at the last day. As for my outward estate wth the Lord hath intrusted mee wth all as it is but small and therein most agreeable to mine owne desires soe I am in that respect troubled at nothinge more, then that I want meanes to testifie my thankefull acknowledgement of the favors and honors wth I have receaved from this people in the space of fforty three yeares, wherein God hath bine pleased to continue mee Minister amongst them

3ly: I give and bequeath unto Mr. ffrederick LOSSE of Dorchester Phisitian one peece of my plate such as my fowre sonnes by ioint consent shall thinke fitt as an acknowledgement of his faithfull love and greate paines and care that he hath taken about mee.

4ly: I doe hereby appointe & ordaine that the remainder of that little plate wth I have left may bee soe disposed amongst my foure sonnes in such proportion as they shall agree of amongst themselves that every one may receave some share thereof to bee kept by them as a remembraunce of mee.

5ly: I give and bequeath to my foure sisters Anne DRAKE, Martha MOORE, Elizabeth ALLEN, and Mary WHITE to each of them the sum of Twentie Shillings.

6ly: I give unto Arthur HACKMAN my servant the some of Ten shillings as an acknowledgement of his faithful service.

7ly: I give unto Hannah MOUNSELL my Maidservant the some of Thirtie shillings as an acknowledgement of her great paines shee hath taken about mee in my weaknes.

8ly: And lastly All the rest of my goods and Chattells I give and bequeath unto my youngest sonne Nathaniel whome I appointe sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I require him wthin one month after my decease to distribute amongst the Godly poore of the parish of Trinitie and St Peeters in Dorchester the some of ffortie shillings accordinge to his discretion, As for ffunerall expenses as I never liked the affected solemnities thereof, soe I require that there be order taken by my Executor, that as much as may bee my ffunerall may bee solemnized with all privacy wthout any sermon or ringinge of Bells. And now Lord Jesus come quickly / John White Sen / Signed sealed acknowledged by the above named Mr John WHITE As his Last Will and Testament the Twentie Nineth day of March Ano 1648 in the presence of / Memorandu that the word (my) in the three and twentith line [Note in the original text] and the words (foure) and (Anne Drake) in the nine and Twentith line were interlined before the signinge and sealinge hereof in the prece of Jno:WHITEWAY, Gabriell REVE.

The will was proved at London before Robert Wiseman Doctor at Law and Surrogate to the right worshipful Sir Nathaniel Brent Knight Doctor of Law and Master or Keeper of the Prerogative Court the 14th day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and forty nine by Oath of Nathaniel WHITE the deceased son and executor therein named. To whom Administration of all and singular the goods chattels and debts of the said deceased which any manner or way concern the same wil was granted and committed he being first legally sworn well and truly to administer the same.^[9]

Death and Legacy

Rev. John White is remembered as the, Patriarch of Dorchester.^[6] He, 'died suddenly on 21 July 1648 at Dorchester, Dorset, and was buried three days later under the south porch of St. Peter's Church, where the plaque above has been erected in his honour. Virtually destitute the corporation had to give his executor £5 to distribute to the poor in his name, and they had the porch 'hung with black at the funeral and for a month afterwards'.^[6]

Sources

↑ Stanton St John at Wikipedia
↑ Rose-Troup, Frances. John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester and The Founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Page 19.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 Wikipedia contributors, "John White (colonist priest)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_White_(colonist_priest)&oldid=996738852
↑ Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 and Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Visitation of Hampshire, 1634
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 Patriarch of Dorchester & Founder of Massachusetts
↑ recorded in the alumni under John Whyte
↑ Edmund Calamy's Account of Ministers and others ejected and silenced - 1660/2
↑ Russell, Michael, transcriber, "Will of Rev John White 1574-1648" January 2009, Web accessed September 10, 2014

John White MA (bef. 1575 - 1648)

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