Saturday, March 29, 2014

Surname Saturday - WHITE (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 7th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #889, who is Lydia WHITE (1686-????)
.   [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through four generations in this WHITE family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)
13.  Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944)

26.  Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1884)
27.  Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931)

54.  Samuel Vaux (1814-1880)
55.  Mary Ann Underhill (1816-1883)

110.  Amos Underhill (1772-1865)
111.  Mary Metcalf (1780-1855)


222.  Burgess Metcalf (1741-1816)
223.  Jerusha --?-- (1750-1817)

444.  Michael Metcalf (1706-1771)
445.  Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751)

888.  Michael Metcalf, born 10 October 1680 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 05 March 1761 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.  He was the son of 1776. Michael Metcalf and 1777. Elizabeth Bowers.  He married 21 March 1705 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
889.  Lydia White, born 10 May 1686 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Michael Metcalf and Lydia White are:
*  Michael Metcalf (1706-1771), married 1728 Melatiah Hamant (1704-1751)
*  John Metcalf (1709-1791), married 1733 Tamar Daniels (1714-????)
*  Joseph Metcalf (1714-1759),. married 1739 Deborah Adams (1716-????).
*  Jonathan Metcalf (1716-????), married (1) 1733 Hannah smith (1712-1744); (2) 1742 Mary Adams (1722-????).
*  Elizabeth Metcalf (1718-1758), married 1737 Gideon Ellis (1714-1800).
*  Lydia Metcalf (1721-????), married 1747 Hopestill Lovell (1711-1776).

1778.  Joseph White, born 17 December 1662 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 August 1757 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 31 May 1681 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1779.  Lydia Copeland, born 31 March 1661 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 08 May 1727 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 3558. Laurence Copeland and 3559. Lydia Townsend.

Children of Joseph White and Lydia Copeland are:
*  Joseph White (1683-1737), married 1711 Prudence Smith (1691-1784)
*  Lydia White (1686-????), married 1705 Michael Metcalf (1706-1771).
*  Thomas White (1688-????), married 1710 Deborah Reed (1696-1750).
*  Hannah White (1691-1761), married 1711 Moses Aldrich (1690-1761).
*  Mary White (1692-????).
*  Abigail White (1693-1720), married 1712 John Thompson (1689-1760).
*  William White (1697-????), married 1721 Elizabeth Thayer (1695-????).
*  Benjamin White (1701-1741), married 1720 Mary Thayer (1701-????).

3556.  Joseph White, born about 1636 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 23 March 1706 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 19 September 1660 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
3557.  Lydia Rogers, born 27 March 1642 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died after 04 December 1704 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 7114. John Rogers and 7115. Judith.

Children of Joseph White and Lydia Rogers are:
*  Joseph White (1661-1662).
*  Joseph White (1662-1757), married 1691 Lydia Copeland (1661-1727)
*  Lydia White (1662-1696), married 1681 Samuel Cook (1659-1752).
*  Thomas White (1665-1748), married 1687 Mehitabel Thornton (1665-1704)
*  Samuel White (1666-1760), married 1687 Ann Bingley (1670-1738)
*  John White (1668-1725), married 1719 Sarah (1670-????).
*  Ebenezer White (1670-1726).
*  Mary White (1674-1758), married (1) 1691 Ebenezer Hill (1664-1734); (2) 1742 Seth Chapin (1668-1746).
*  Ann White (1678-1743), married 1698 William Trask (1674-1746).
*  Experience White (1680-1769), married 1702 Ephraim Millard (1676-1769).
*  Hannah White (1681-????), married 1701 Samuel Warfield (1673-1752).

7112.  Thomas White, born about 1599 in England; died before 28 August 1678 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1635.
7113.  Unknown

Children of Thomas White and Unknown are:
*  Joseph White (1636-1706), married 1660 Lydia Rogers (1642-1704)
*  Hannah White (1638-????), married 1659 John Baxter (1639-1719).
*  Samuel White (1642-1699), married 1666 Mary Dyer (1641-1716).
*  Thomas White (1644-q706), married 1670 Mary (1640-????).
*  Ebenezer White (1649-1703), married 1670 Hannah Phillips (1654-1727).

Resources used to define these families include:

(1)  George Walter Chamberlain, Early Families of Weymouth, Massachusetts, (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984), Page 731 and on.

(2)  C.S. Williams, Descendants of Thomas White of Weymouth MA, 1630-1907 (New York, 1907).

(3)   Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton (1817-1879) (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996), pages 492-515.

(4) Robert Charles Anderson, George E. Sanborn, Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society,2000-2011), Volume VII, pages 339-342.

(5)  Janet Ireland Delorey, "Thomas White (4) of Mendon and Uxbridge Mass," The American Genealogist, Vol. 67, no. 3, April 1992, pp 90 ff.

(6)  Massachusetts Town Vital Record Books.

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