The following is an excerpt from the Ancestry.com newsletter and if you haven't tried this yet, give it a go! It's great (there are 321 hits for White) and can be copied beautifully onto Excel. I found some family and I bet a lot of others will too. I hope! It's a free search for 10 days. Evelyn Quote U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE PRIVATE CLAIMS, VOL. 3 Responsible for the allocation of federal funds, the United States Congress received thousands of claims for money, land, or aid in the first seventy-five years of the Union. This database is the third volume of claims to the House of Representatives in the early nineteenth century. It contains a variety of claims, including applications for pension benefits, compensation for services provided to the government, land, and change in pension benefits. Each entry provides the claimant's name, the nature of the claim, and what action was taken by the House. In some entries, a residence is listed. Although most of the records are for claims in the first half of the nineteenth century, a few can be found from 1799. Including the names of nearly 20,700 men and women, this can be a useful source of information to researchers of early Americans. Source Information: House of Representatives. “Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives, Vol. III.” Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1853. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4565.htm Unquote