A name given from the color of the hair or complexion. It may be also local, derived from the Isle of Wight, on the coast of Hampshire, England, so-called from the Welsh gwydd/o> wood from its primitive forest.
b.abt.1558 Shalford & Messing, Essex, England; parents ukn
chris.May 17, 1560 Shalford, Essex, England
d.1617 Messing, Essex, England
m.June 24, 1585 Shalford, Essex, England Bridget Allgar
b.1562 Shalford, Essex, England d/0 William and Margaret Allgar
d.aft.June 24, 1605
CHILDREN (all born Shalford, Essex, England) included:
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b.abt.1596 Shalford, Essex, England; s/o Robert and Bridget (Allgar) White
d.Jan. 23, 1684 Hartford, CT
m.(1)Dec. 26, 1622 Messing, Essex, England; Mary Levett
m.(2)May 28, 1627 Drayton, England; Joane West
b.Apr. 16, 1606 Drayton, Somerset, England; d/o Richard West and Maudlin (Magdaline)Cooke
d.May 18, 1654 Lancaster, MA
m.(3)1679 Mary Phillips
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NOTE: Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire page 231: WHITE, WHYTE, WHITTE, WHIT, John, yeoman, with James Phipps, (father of Gov. William Phipps) bought of Edward Bateman of Kennebec "a certain large tract of land near the river of Kennebec at a place called Negwusset, lying between that and the river called Munsweague which was the easterly bound; there they lived many years, built houses and otherwise improved it, and died seized of the whole except a certain neck of land called Jeremiah Squam's Neck which they sold in 1679 to Sr.William Phipps."
His wife died and he m.before Oct. 4, 1679, Mary, widow of his partner James Phipps.
Sir William Phipps' legatee Mary claimed the tract "Cherysequamy Neck"__"as by deed from John White and Mary his wife formerly the wife of James Phipps of Kennebec deceased; dated Oct. 4, 1679 [McHa nd G Reg. VIII 202]
He died before 1722 when his son Peter, then of Milton, Mass. sold one half of his portion, which was two fifths of the Moiety or half of the tract, to Paul Dudley. He testified to the foregoing facts and that his father had eight children of whom four had died without issue. His portion was that of the eldest son. [York Deeds XI, 15.] Perhaps Paul White, taxed at Milton, Mass. 1681-3, was another of those children. Peter gave his age as 67 in 1727, which places his birth about 1660; as William Phipps is known to have been born in 1650 we may locate the partners on the tract before that date.
From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: JOHN, b.Eng., 1600, came from Shalford, county of Essex, and settled Cambridge, Mass., 1632, removed Hartford, Conn., 1636, removed Hadley, Mass., 1659, returned Hartford, Conn., where he died 1683.
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