Joane WEST b: 1606 in England

• Married: 28 MAY 1627 in Burton, Drayton, Somerset, England

Children

• 1. John WHITE , Jr b: WFT Est. 1623-1649
• 2. Joanna WHITE b: ABT. 1630
• 3. Elizabeth WHITE b: WFT Est. 1623-1649
• 4. Thomas WHITE b: WFT Est. 1623-1649
• 5. Sarah WHITE b: 1643
• 6. Hannah WHITE b: WFT Est. 1623-1649
• 7. Josiah WHITE b: ABT. 1643 in Salem MA
• 8. Ruth WHITE b: 8 SEP 1644 in Salem MA
• 9. Mary WHITE b: ABT. 1637 in England
• 10. John WHITE , Jr. b: 1628
• 11. Thomas WHITE b: ABT. 1630 in England
• 12. Elizabeth WHITE b: ABT. 1631 in England
• 13. Joanna WHITE b: 24 FEB 1631/32 in England
• 14. Sarah WHITE b: 9 APR 1643 in Salem MA
• 15. Hannah WHITE b: WFT Est. 1624-1651 in Wenham MA

Returned to England briefly, c. 1648-1653, apparently to settle some problems with family holdings. On his return to Massachusetts, he moved farther out, to Lancaster, MA, where he remained.

John White was of Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1638, but it does not appear that John White ever lived in Salem proper. As all his grants of land were located in Wenham, it is conclusive that he lived there, as that town was in the jurisdiction of Salem until 1648 --- the same as Beverly until 1674 --- going under the general name of Salem.

John White is first mentioned in Lancaster on 1 May 1653, when he and others subscribed to "Rules for Proportion of Meadow." He had twenty acres of land allotted to him on the Neck between the lots of James Atherton on the south and John Lewis on the north, and as the "Annals of Lancaster" state, his house stood on the east end of said lot.... The house was burned first by the Indians in 1676 and again by accident in1816; it was rebuilt by Deacon Samuel F. White.

WILL OF JOHN WHITE, Lancaster, MA.

These present witness the Last will and testament of John White o fLancaster in the countie of Middlesex in New England yeoman, being under the sensible decayes of nature and weake and low in Respect of the outward man, and the sensible symptoms of an aproaching change (togather with the advise of frends) hath moved thereunto to the setting his house in order to the dispossing of those outward blessings the Lord in mercy hath betrusted him with amongst his surviving children, for ye mutial Good & future peace.

And first in order to this his last will he hath & hereby doth commit& commend his soul to Almighty God that gave it him & his body to the common burying place here in Lancaster & after his body being ordly and decently interred and the charge thereof defrayed togather with all due debts as also the following legasies which are to be discharged out o fthe movable Estate; the housing and lands and Rest of the movable goods to be as followeth:--- first, it is his will that his daughter Hanna have one hundred acres of his second devision of upland and part of it lying neare Ealsabet River, and all that part of his second devision of meadow that lyeth at Wataquadoke, togather with commons and common Right due to one hundred pound Estate on the Town booke. And the house and barne and other out housing togather with all the Rest of the lands, meadows commons and common Rights within the bounds of Lancaster, both first and second devision afrementioned to be as aforesaid to his son Josiah, and his daughter Hanna, their heires and assignes forever.

And in Reference to his farm at Wenham, it is his Will hereby declaredt hat his daughter-in-law Ruth White sometime wife to his late deseased son Thomas White, shall have and enjoy the said farme during the time ofher natural life (one half of it) and the other halfe until her son Thomas White com to the age of twentie one years, and then he to enter possession of one halfe, and at the death of the said widow, the two daughters are to enter possession of the other half, to be to the said widow her son and daughters as aforesaid, theire heirs and assignes forever. Provided always that if the said Widow change her condition by marriage, then the said farme to be the said childrens in proportion as aforesaid --- And in Reference to his daughters Joane, Elizabeth, Marie and Sara, who are disposed of by marriage, and have Received portions:---Yet notwithstanding it is his will hereby declared that they have everie one twentie shillings;---

Hanna, his youngest daughter who hath lived with him from her childhood, and been a nurse to him in his old age, it is hereby declaredto be his will that she have the bed shee useth, togather with all the furniture belonging to it.

The debts and Legasies aforesaid being fully discharged out of the movables estate as aforesaid by the aforesaid Josiah White, who is here by willed and declared to be sole Executor, of this last will of his aforesaid father, to see this his said Father's will truly & faithfully performed in all due parts of it, the remainder of the afores'd moveables to be the s'd Josiah's. The fores'd John White, notwithstanding his great weakness, yet being of a competent measure of understanding & sound memory doeth hereby declare this to be his last will and Testament. And in witness hereof hath hereunto put his hand & seale this tenth day of March oen thousand six hundred seventie two-three.

                                            his

                                  John    X    White & seale

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  Sealed signed and delivered

  In the presence of

    Roger Sumner

    Ralph Houghton

White, Almira Larkin, GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WHITE, 3 Vols,(Haverhill, MA: Chase Brothers, Printers, 1900), 1:11-13. Also found in WC.rootsweb.com, submitted by KarenSullivan<ksullivan@@hvc.rr.comSource: WC Project Rootsweb.com; per ChuckGleason,<CGleason11@@aol.com> John White came to US in August 1639 landing at Salem, Mass. He moved to Wenham, MA in 1642 and then to Lancaster, MA in1653. He was a carpenter.

Sanborn, Melindi Lutz Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records Supplement, 1644 - 1691 Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1998; @R1@

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