First Generation 1. MEALS. MEALS and Sarah were married. Sarah died after 8 Oct 1720. Genealogy of the White Family, by Mrs. Jennett Nichols Vanderpool, Private Printing, Eaton, N.Y. 1899. p. 7. The following letter was written by Sarah Meals to her son-in-law, William White. New York, October 8th, 1720. Loving Son Wm. White. I am at this instant in a sick and low condition, and have therefore sent these lynes to let you know my wants, which are many and very great, having nothing to suppourt myself but what comes from the hands and means of my dau. Sarah Warn, to whom I have for a long time been, and so am yet, a very grievous Burthen and charge, and have nothing by which I can make the least gratification, wherefore I desire (as you will answer it to God and to your Conscience,) that you bestow what is reasonable Law or Equity is, or may be right. And as you can best judge of whatever it be in reason, would have you pay it unto my daughter, Sarah Warn, and I do hereby authorize her to give any legal discharge, which shall be as good and sufficent as if I had done the same in my own proper person. Pray fail me not herein, and you will highly oblige me, Who am Your Loving Mother-in-Law, Sarah Meals. MEALS and Sarah had the following children: +2 i. Elizabeth MEALS. +3 ii. Sarah MEALS. Second Generation 2. Elizabeth MEALS. Elizabeth MEALS and William WHITE were married in Esopus, Ulster, New York. William WHITE (son of WHITE) was born in 1666 in , , England. He died in 1750 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut. Genealogy of the White Family, by Mrs. Jennett Nichols Vanderpool, Private Printing, Eaton, N.Y. 1899 p. 7 - 11. In the year 1679, there sailed from the Isle of Wright, three brothers, bound for the then almost unknown county of North America. Their names were Peter, James and William White. William was the youngest of the three brothers, being only 13 years of age when he came to America. They were of Quaker parentage and belief and probably, had left England with the intentions of joining the Quakers that had, at that time, made a settlement at New Castle, Delaware. Peter and William soon went to Manhattan Island, (which at that time was merely a trading post), but only remained there a short time, when they sailed up the Hudson River to Esopus, Ulster Co, N.Y., which is situated about ten miles north of Poughkeepsie, and teh same distance southeast of Kingston. William married Elizabeth Meals, a daughter of one of the Dutch settlers of Esopus, N.Y. A family of seven children were born to them. Two daughters died and their names are unknown. They had been residents of Esopus, N.Y. for a period of sixty years, when in 1748, with their sons and their sons's wives and children, wit their flocks and their herds, they journeyed eastward to Connecticut. Elizabeth MEALS and William WHITE had the following children: +4 i. Isaac WHITE. 5 ii. William WHITE. 6 iii. George WHITE. 7 iv. Joshua WHITE. 8 v. Benjamin WHITE. 3. Sarah MEALS. Sarah MEALS and WARN were married.