The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-04

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The eleventh name signed on the s:sia ~
ID flower Compact November II. IL 800 while
of Cape codd. was william White. He
brought with him a family o lye per-
sons, but some of thesa must have been
servants. This William White lived but
IA short time .af ter landing, dying the first
4 winter he spent in thejs New world,
William White married Anna Fuller
February s. 1872 He had two SONG, the
eldest, Resolved w hits. was born in Eng
pilgrim In m strange land Is said TO
H have been the first English child TO be
& born in New England . a#
34gs II we win turn To- the English lineage
& u the White family we find that they
& desc ended from Thomas is hite !son5 Of
who purchased the manor OF TUX ford,
/ hut resided at IYoodhead. County Rut-
i land. He married Anna Cecil, eldest sis
& ter OF William. Lord Burleigh, Lord High
x Treaststtr Of England lis son. 81 :
John White, Knit. Of Tuxford. wa & sheriff
ut ~ ~J,S r1a pey no
5@1 His grandson, ] Ohm. OF Tlxford, ma r;
4 rled Jane. daughter OF Sir, Thomas Wiz
Hanson. of Great Markham. 1t "a from
Il his John w hite that William White. the
emigran,. descended. As Is giysn By
Burke. there were thres Johns In suc-
Y cession.4 IN the will OF sBlsho d Jonn
White Ison OF the I bird John. which was
dated 16s1. 1t lludesf to SRi son. not cal II
ed by name, who had left his country
and his Church This tells the st1ry,
4 his sfirst 81 knessa5 after landing at ~ ~
Il mouth With his wife. yet he left a recon-
OF an honorable lineage. such as his
---.descendants must a pprec.ate .5S9g
a Resolved White grew up and S$s~'arried
a daughter Of sNVii liam Vase !, IS oi.e 9 &
y the early settlers iof Ma ssa chuset It's: Blu +
IA all trace Of him disappeared and, the de-
scendants 8of all the Whites OF New Eng
8 land nre through Pcregrinc. Upon the
peculiar circumstance 0 4 being the frst
"a born Englishman at Plymout b.. "A he obs
& tanned d large grant OF land and priVi-.
& leges, and when the patents for \ ~ yfnouthi
"a Colony was granted to the 81. Body OF
81 Freemen,,, three tracts or land were re-
served for the rchasers or Old Com!
n crsf vs.
IN 1866, Prence being. Governor: g ne
ri tition was made by the Kings CAA-
!, missloners in behalf OF Lieutenant Pere-
grine White, and the court granted unto
Il him 200 acres OF land lying and being a
4 the path that goes 4 from Bird cwater to-
the bay Adjoining the bay line fsce New
England Records) But was not
1 through this Peregrine White that the
Virginia family came, but through an
VI Uncle. John White, who was then lY-
ling In Virginia. who landed at Norfolk
4 about 1916. ~ ssS&
John Nicholas White grandson 4of this
John, the emlgranD was son q. r ebert '
4 and Mary White. born at Norfolk, Va
on the sd OF November, 119S. To E.hinl
and his wife, Paulina F. =. w hltc, was
II born Virginia Ann, 26th Noyenl Der. SIS ::
also Sarah Eliza, 26th Noyemb es, 1881. and
her twin sister, Mary Imogine I'eristcrn
Il p. T. Ehite was born tho lotn :. o. NoYein-
Il ber 1897; John Nash on he, lot h OF I. No
a ye1nber, 1884; William Lambeth and Jose-
phine (twins) were born on Il ho 18th Of
March. 1870: Robert Cary. born on the 18th
!. OF { June, 1874. I'll d Il "
Peristeria still survives. as does WI liam
j
+ daughter'of the late George Hamilton
II Jones, and the latter arrled Mr.. Pow.
tatan Weisiger, Sot Virginia, but now OF
a New York city. s IsSll 8 559s53, 4i.3Sa
There we're seyefal other prominent
members OF the family, all descended
Z Tie earliest being Alexander White, born.
1885, in Kappa hammock county, ie, was
q delegate from Virginia to the Conu.
mental Congress 17s6 to IT'S, and then se y
TO tho arst United States Cong ress. Y. l ~
e 1893 He died 81 Mnoav !, Non li his
son. francis White, was in Congress-
from 1919 TO 1916. The present Henry
r Kirk White, born 1864, In sight OF - "a Y
ford, the home OF the Lees. and not lnr
from Wakefield, the birthplace o. Was, Y,
ington, has risen to eminence IA the Jaw Jaw
rs we'll az a. olented W.T. ~ /"
IN Birmingha Ala. s 1,a,a
IN 1896, the authorities Of NORTH lsafos
lima granted to Henry While "a lraGl W
land in Pasquotank precin co &C, hI,l prs
about ono hundred acres. Z Was q q q 9
prominent member Of the Society .,.I
u Friends. ana as a minister,s started 4. the
hrst church there, called he s,l.lttle gltlYer
NeetingB House.. 1.-THE first book Of recorus
\ OF that meeting being In his handWrltlnss:
and we'll preserved, There arr. lflallSg "
the name IN tle old \, siaIe va
can mention the eminent inrlst, Hissh
Lawson White, who was horn III J re- re-
dell county, North Carolina Qcto Der W.
ia. Il After graduating In aw he moved Z. g
Is Tennessee 8. and In 31sol was g ppolntea
Il ssanfed the State many years in Congress-
Until his B death In lsl0 George Henry
White. 8of North Carolina, was q so a. me
,hwver, congressman and wa 9 8. 8. Grand.
master of the Masons I'M Mort Ca roma
1 ~ N ne northern branch, ot the Yi,lte
,anI,v there seams no limit. They have
furnished fu INDUSTRIOUS men an all the pro-
te ain Who have scattere soyer the en-
tire Country. The celebrated sIshop
White first Potestant Epscopfaa M , dIreat
descenda ni OF the Plymouth, family
The arms We give are descrlh s i, py
burke i7as sl4l,lest a Cheyron. air, ne
tween three lions rampant, or
Cssst. out OF " ducal coroAet,S arg a.