Richard White (1585 - 1647)

Died Jul 1647 at about age 62 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Disputed origins:

No such son, Richard White (1587-1684) is mentioned in the will of the purported father, Robert White.^[1]

Nor do records supporting the birth/baptism of a son Richard appear in the Shalford church records.^[2]

The death reported about this Richard seems likely variant of that which is otherwise reported about early New England immigrant, John White, known son of Robert White.^[3] In his review of the immigrant John White (d. Hartford), Robert Charles Anderson identified the baptism of his son, John, Messing, Essex, 28 December 1623,^[4] but the son was not further identified as a man associated with the place Brookline, Mass. Of the son John bap. 1623, Anderson found "no further record."

Quite separately, John White, d. Brookline 15 April 1691 was the principal in an 1898 article by Thomas J. Lothrop, "John White of Watertown and Brookline, and some of his descendants," published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (volume 52).

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Richard White

Sources

1. ↑ Citing "records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume Weldon, 40," a transcription of the will was published in Frank Farnsworth Starr [and James J. Goodwin], Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (1915, reprint in 199?), 2:396-398 (in particular part); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
2. ↑ Frank Farnsworth Starr [and James J. Goodwin], Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (1915, reprint in 199?), 2:398-399 (in particular part); for baptisms at Shalford, author cites "Church Register..."; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014)
3. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 3:1976-1979 (John White); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014). Reports immigrant John White born "about 1597," son of "Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White of Messing, Essex," citing "NEHGR 55:22-31."
4. ↑ Citing "NEHGR 55:29," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-­1633, Volumes I­-III, 3 vols. (1995), 3:1976-1979 (John White); digital images AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).

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