This is the site that Canada Girl shared with us. She does not have the book personally. She looks at books available on the internet through Brigham Young at the library site that this URL takes you too. See down lower for URL. .·:*¨¨*:·.~* Ginny *~.·:*¨¨*:·. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Canada Girl" <canadarock1970@gmail.com> To: <white@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [WHITE] Peter White Family of New Jersey. > The internet link to this book is > > http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH9&CISOPTR=15068&REC=14 > > It was also at my local library. Thanks for sending the info. > > Cori Leigh > > On 5/13/07, Virginia L. (Ginny) Keefer <ginnykeefer@cox.net> wrote: >> >> Peter White of New Jersey from 1670 and of William White and wife, >> Deborah >> Tilton, 1906 by James A. White >> >> When this book was written, the author thought Thomas White was the >> father >> of Peter White. Just as the book was being prepared for press, the author >> received a letter from Rev.. William Hance who had put years of >> painstaking >> and enthusiastic work into this family research and could be relied upon >> to >> be accurate. This ERROR shows in the words of the book in the following - >> Peter shown as son of Thomas instead of brother to Thomas. Make the >> correction in your work as you read the words below. >> >> Rev. Hance stated the descent as follows; >> Thomas of the first generation; Administration granted to his son, >> Samuel, >> February 4,1684; had 3 sons:- Samuel who married Elizabeth Wardell, and >> left >> a son, Joel, as appears from his Will proved July 5, 1698; Thomas, who >> administered on his brother Samuel's estate, and whose own Will, dated >> Nov. >> 9, 1712, was proved December 4, 1712; and >> Amos, who married, in 1708, Hannah Mills, and died 1729-30. >> Peter, brother to above Thomas of the first generation, died 1697-8. He >> married Mary Worthley, and was father of Peter White [3.] >> >> There is a picture of Vincent and Mary White and their children. >> >> It is the aim of this book to furnish a record of genealogy of that >> branch of the White family which traces its descent through William White >> and Deborah Tilton White, who came to the Province of New Brunswick with >> other Loyalists in 1783. >> >> The family lineage is herein traced back to 1670. In that year, Thomas >> White, carpenter, came to America from Deal, Kent County, England. In >> 1675, >> he bought land in Monmouth County, New Jersey from Thomas Potter and >> Judah >> Allen. He died in 1683-4, leaving two sons; Samuel and Peter. He also, >> possibly, had a third son, William, for the county records show that one >> William White was a grand juror in 1678, and for the marriage of William >> White and Mary Katherine Dower. >> >> Peter White [2] is the ancestor of William White, the Loyalist. His >> brother, Samuel, patented land in Shrewsbury by the Sea, where the Tucker >> family, who also came from Deal, England had land. The site of this land >> is >> now called Deal [1906], New Jersey. Peter White [2] owned land in what is >> still known [1906] as Shrewsbury, situated some fifteen miles from Deal, >> NJ. >> This land , or part of it, was conveyed by him by deed from Sarah Parker, >> a >> widow, and her sons, George and William, May 10th, 1668. >> >> Although Samuel [2] is not in the line of descent which this book is >> designed to record, it may be of interest to mention that he died in >> 1697, >> leaving three sons. Thomas, his eldest, was twice married, but the author >> was not able to ascertain either the name or date of death of his first >> wife, the name of his second wife was Elizabeth Cole, he dies in 1712. >> The >> second son, Samuel, married Elizabeth Wardell, he died, leaving a Will >> which >> is recorded in New Jersey Archives, page 288. The third son, Amos, >> married >> December 2nd, 1708, Hannah Mills, and died in 1729 or 1730. >> >> Peter White [2] died in 1697. His will bears the date, March 20th, >> 1697, >> and was probated June 10th, 1697. His wife's name was Mary and by her he >> had >> ten children, three sons and seven daughters; Peter was probably his >> eldest >> son and married Abigail Lippincott, who was the daughter of Remembrance >> and >> Margaret [Barbour] Lippincott. She was born September 17th, 1625 and was >> alive on October 19th, 1734. Peter White [3] died in 1733, his Will bears >> the date February 14th, 1733 and was proved May 2nd, 1733, and is >> recorded >> at Trenton in Book II, folio 478. Robert, another son, married Margaret >> Hartshorne and died May 10th, 1747. Thomas, the only other son, died in >> 1747; his wife's name was Christian. Mary, one of Peter's [2] several >> daughters, was born January 19th, 1673, married Richard Lippincott, >> October >> 12th, 1695 and died May 12th, 1723. Ann, another daughter, was twice >> married, first to Mr. Sutton and secondly to J___ Cheshire, February >> 14th, >> 1692. From the record of th! >> is second marriage, it appears that the following persons were witnesses >> to the ceremony; Peter White and Mary his wife; father and mother of the >> bride; John Worthley; Samuel White; Thomas White; Peter Tilton; Margaret >> Lippincott; Elizabeth White; junior; Sarah Reape; Jane White; Mary White; >> junior; and Elizabeth White. A third daughter, Elizabeth, was born >> January >> 28th, 1680, and married Joseph Lippincott, august 17th, 1701. Sarah was >> the >> name of a fourth daughter but the writer had been unable to glean any >> information concerning her beyond her name. Another daughter named Jane >> married Thomas Garwood, July 28th, 1673. There were two other daughters >> referred to, but not named in their father's Will; they probably died >> young. >> >> The children of Peter White [3] and Abigail [Lippincott] White are as >> follows; Britton born November 17th, 1712 and married October 19th, 1754 >> to >> Dinah Corliss; Benjamin who married Mary Morris; Peter [4] who married >> Huldy Tabor January 22m 1747; Ruth who married Joshua Bund or Bond; Sarah >> born May 21, 1715 married October 22, 1737 to Jacob Corliss; Hannah who >> married Job Cook, a son of Ebenezer and Mary [Patterson] Cook; Dorothy >> who >> married Amos Chandler April 30, 1739; and Elizabeth and Abigail. >> >> The children of Peter White [4] and Hulda [Tabor] White were; >> Benjamin, Philip. Vincent, Aaron, John and Susan. >> >> Benjamin White [5] eldest son of Peter White [4] was born December 20, >> 1749, and married Amah Ball, March 16, 1775 and died December 23, 1842. >> His >> wife, Amah, died April 21, 1816. >> >> The Rev. White Hance received copies of several papers. Among them was >> an indenture of apprenticeship signed by John Craddock, Benjamin White >> and >> Peter White, of the Township of Shrewsbury, bearing the date of 18th >> March >> 1766, in which it is witnessed that Benjamin White, son of Peter White >> and >> Hulda, his wife, with the consent of his father and mother, doth put >> himself >> an apprentice to John Craddock, 'to learn ye artt and mistery of ye trade >> he >> now followeth, that is, that of cordwainer or shoemaker and tanner, and >> with >> him to "Serve form he date hereof the full term of three years" and 'Ten >> Months". >> >> Rev Hance also found a fragment of a letter which apparently was >> written >> to Benjamin White, dated St John's , Parr Town, September 15, 1784, and >> signed, "Your loving brother, William White". In this letter he speaks of >> liking " the place amazingly well" and of having a son, Philip, named >> after >> his own brother. Rev. Hance also found a fragment of a letter which >> apparently was written to Benjamin White by his sister, Susan, as it >> contains the following, " My kind love to Amy and all the children," and >> is >> signed " your loving sister till death, Sukey White". >> >> Also, there is a letter which would seem to have been written to >> Benjamin by his mother, Huldah, although the letter is in a fragmentary >> condition, and without address or date. It reads; " July ye 14, 1791. >> Dear >> Son, _ I rite, having this opportunity to let you know that I am in good >> health as can be expected for so old a woman as I am. I had a hard spell >> of >> sickness last spring, but I lived through it, and thank God, for His >> merciful goodness." >> >> There was also found a letter addressed to Benjamin White, Dartmouth, >> near Long Plain, and dated July ye 15, 1791, signed "your loving brother >> till death, John White " in which John speaks of having recently returned >> from traveling eleven hundred miles among the nine nations Indians", >> where >> he states his intention to visit his brother, Benjamin, in a year of two >> if >> nothing happens." >> >> Philip White [5], son of Peter White [4] and Huldah White, was born >> 1756; married 1. ___ by whom he had a son, John, who was born December 8, >> 1772 and married Susan, daughter of Gilbert Lane, married 2nd October 29, >> 1773, Jane Miers, by whom he had a daughter, Susan, born Mar 6th, 1775. >> >> Etc etc >> >> This book has many pages. I will look in the index to help New Jersey >> White researchers to help. Too much to type it all. New England >> Genealogical >> Society at Boston, MA has two copies of this book. There should be many >> more >> as the author stated he gave a copy to all who could prove to him they >> descended from this family. Ask your reference librarian to contact large >> libraries in your area regarding interlibrary loan of a copy of this book >> if >> possible. >> >> Ginny Keefer >> >> PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WHITE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Cori Leigh Landry > > PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WHITE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >