Henry White (1652 - 1713)

Born 1652 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England

Husband of Mary (Weeks) White — married before 1680 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 17 May 1713 at about age 61 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Biography

Henery White Dyed May: 17th: 1713^[1]

Administration of estate:^[2]

Estate divided among:

Children of William White, deceased, eldest son.

Josiah White, second son.

Elizabeth Thorp, first daughter.

Patience Farrington, second daughter.

Submit Bullard, third daughter.

Child of Jerusha White, deceased, fourth daughter.

Hannah Morse, fifth daughter.

Rebecca Bullard, sixth daughter.

Abigail Petta, seventh daughter.

Rest Kingsberry, eighth daughter.

Using Source list from Torrey's New England Marriages, to find evidence of his parents. {Dorchester 31; Sv.; Reg. 14:57; Stevens-Miller 275; White (G WHI pamph); Thayer (1835) 172; Weeks (1885) 36; Dorchester Ch. Rec. 196}^[3]

• William the son of Henery White was born 7 Feb 1684, in Dorchester, Massachusetts.^[4]

• "HENRY, Dorchester, s. perhaps of Edward of the same, by w. Mary, d. of William Weeks of the same, had Return, who d. Dec. 1680; Josiah, b. 14 June 1680; William, 7 Feb. 1684, bapt. 5 July 1685; Elizabeth bapt. 22 Aug. 1686; Submit, b. 9 Dec. 1688; Jerusha, 19 Feb. 1690; Josiah, again, 30 Dec. 1692; Sarah, 11 Oct. 1693; Ann, 6 June 1695; Rebecca, 10 Dec. 1696; and Abigail, 25 Mar. 1698. "^[5]

• 11 May 1683, Henry White and his wife Mary, deed land to George Sumner. The land had belonged to her father William Weeks, and had been her portion of his estate.^[6]

• Mary Weeks, daughter of William Weeks and Elizabeth b. 10 Nov 1656, m. Henry White^[7]

• Thayer, Elisha, Family Memorial: Part I, Genealogy of Fourteen Families of the Early Settlers of New England; Part II, Genealogy of Ephraim and Sarah Taylor (Hingham, Mass.: J. Farmer, 1835) Can't get on line.

• Weeks (1885): Chapman, Jacob, Leonard Weekes, of Greenland, N.H., and His Descendants 1639–1888 (Albany: J. Munsell’s Sons, 1889) Not on pg 36

• Weekes, Robert D., Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes (Newark, N.J.: L. J. Hardham, 1885) not on p 36 either

• William, son of Henry. Dorchester church record: 5 July 1685 baptized. This also names his (William the son's) mother as dtr of William Weeks^[8]

Analysis: Only Savage mentions the possibility that he might be a son of Edward White and Mary There is no proof or evidence.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Dorchester, V1 p 128. Online at American Ancestors
2. ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. AmericanAncestors.org Online database. Probate of Henry White, file no. 3484.
3. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.
4. ↑ Dorchester Vital Records till 1850. V1 P1, Online at American Ancestors
5. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692. Volume #4
6. ↑ "Genealogical Notes." New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 14:57
7. ↑ Holman, Mary (Lovering), Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1948–52); also Torrey, C.A., “Notes and Corrections to Stevens-Miller Genealogy (1948),” typescript (n.p., 1949)
8. ↑ Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England 1636–1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891)

• Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. AmericanAncestors.org Online database. Probate of Henry White, file no. 3484.