GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF MAINE

Genealogical and Family History
of the
STATE OF MAINE

Compiled under the editorial supervision of George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D.

LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
New York
1909.

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[Transcribed by Coralynn Brown]

[Many families included in these genealogical records had their beginnings in Massachusetts.]

WHITE

William White, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1610 in England, and is said to have come from county Norfolk. He landed at Ipswich, Mass. in 1635, and with others settled in Newbury. In 1640 he removed to Haverhill, where he was one of the first settlers, and a grantee of the Indian deed of Haverhill, dated Nov. 15, 1640. It is said that this deed was both written and witnessed by him.
He married (first) Mary _____, the motehr of his only child. She died Sept. 22, 1681; he married (second), Sept. 21, 1682, Sarah Foster, widow, who died in Ipswich in 1693. He died Sept. 28, 1690.
Child:
John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of William White, was born about 1639 and resided in Haverhill, where he died Jan. 1, 1668-69, aged twenty-nine. He married, in Salem, Nov. 25, 1662, Hannah French, who married (second) Thomas Philbrick. According to a provision in the will, the care of the only son devolved upon the grandfather, William White.
Child:
John, mentioned below.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) White, was born March 8, 1663-64. He married, Oct. 24, 1687, Lydia Gilman, daughter of John Gilman, and granddaughter of Edward Gilman, who came from Norfolk, England, and settled first in Hingham, and later in Ipswich. He was an influential man, being town clerk in 1690. He owned a garrison house in 1690, erected as a defence against the Indians. He was a representative of Haverhill to the general court eight years, between 1700 and 1719 [trans note: do they mean 18 yrs?]; captain of the Haverhill company; magistrate of the county court. He acquired much property in trade and merchandise, and owned much real estate.
Children;
1. John, born Sept. 11, 1688, died Aug .19, 1705.
2. Mary, born June 24, 1690, died 1777; married May 10, 1711, James Ayer.
3. Hannah, born 1691, married Jan. 17, 1711-12, Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover; died 1775.
4. William, born Jan .18, 1693-94, mentioned below.
5. Samuel, born Dec. 23, 1695, married Ruth Phillips.
6. Nicholas, born Dec. 4, 1698, died 1772.
7. Timothy, born Nov. 13, 1765.
8. Elizabeth, born Nov. 16, 1702, died 1760; married Rev. Amos Main, of Rochester, N. H.
9. James, born April 16, 1705, settled in Atkinson, N. H.; died there 1788.
10. John, born Sept. 8, 1707, died May 10, 1745.
11. Joseph, born Oct. 21, 1709, died April 4, 1713.
12. Abigail (twin), born Oct. 21, 1709; married March 5, 1727-28, Moses Hazen, died 1792.
13. Lydia, born Sept. 11, 1711, married Nathaniel Peaslee.
14. Joanna, born March 31, 1714, died Nov. 2, 1714.

(IV) Deacon William (2), son of John (2) White, born Jan. 18, 1693-94, died Dec. 11, 1737. He was a clothier and lived at Haverhill. He was called deacon and esquire, and is said to have served as representative to the general court in 1733-34. It is said, too, that he planted the first potatoes in Haverhill in 1718, and raised four bushels, but knew not how to make use of so large a quantity, and gave them to his neighbors.
He married, June 12, 1716, Sarah, born Jan. 28, 1692, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Emerson) Phillips, of Salem, goldsmith, and sister of Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover.
Children:
1. William, born April 12, 1717, married Rebecca Stoddard; died 1773.
2. Samuel, born Sept. 15, 1718, died Aug. 21, 1801.
3. John, born Feb. 7, 1719-20, mentioned below.
4. Nathaniel, born Nov. 23, 1721, died young.
5. Sarah, born Sept. 17, died Sept 19, 1723.
6. Timothy, born Sept. 23, 1724, died Sept., 1791.
7. Mary, born April 30, 1726, married Rev. John Chandler.
8. Sarah, born March 9, 1727-28, married ____ Thompson, of Billerica.
9. Phillips, born Oct. 28, 1729.
10. Ebenezer, born Aug. 2, died Aug. 7, 1731.
11. Anna, born Oct. 24, 1732, died June 26, 1737.

(V) John (3), son of Deacon William (2) White, born Feb. 7, 1719-20, died in Methuen in 1800. He married (first) Miriam (Hoyt) Hazen, widow, of Haverhill. He married (second), Feb. 18, 1767, Elizabeth, born March 23, 1746, 47, daughter of Joseph Haynes, a trader and farmer of Haverhill.
Children:
1. William, born Aug. 1, 1754.
2. Moses, born June 29, 1756.
3. Miriam, born Sept. 27, 1758, married John Bodwell.
4. Elizabeth, born July 19, 1760, married Jacob Hall, of Methuen.
5. Sarah, born Sept. 3, 1762, married James Wilson, of Worcester.
6. Lydia, born 1764, died young.
Children of 2d wife:
7. Rebecca, born Nov. 10, 1768, married David Morse.
8. Joseph Haynes, born June 5, 1772.
9. Nathaniel Hazen, born July 17, 1774, married Nov. 17, 1803, Charlotte Hazen, daughter of Judge William Augustus Atlee; died Dec. 25, 1804.
10. Daniel Appleton, born June 7, 1776.
11. Charlotte, born March 18, 1778, died unmarried.
12. Polly, born March 6, died May 3, 1780.
13. Trueworthy, born Sept. 3, 1781.
14. Mary, born Oct. 29, 1784, married Dec. 31, 1816, Stephen Webster Marston; died July 30, 1836.
15. Anna, born July 28, 1786, married Nov. 28, 1811, Jonathan Kimball Smith.
16. George, born March 12, 1790, died umarried.

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