Rev. John White, of Gloucester

ID: I6881 Name: John White Reverend Surname: White Given Name: John Suffix: Reverend Sex: M Birth: 2 Jul 1674 in Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts Death: 1760 in Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts Burial: 1760 Gloucester, Essex Co., Massachusetts _UID: 208CFAAAE21BD6118724B5B86A52743EBA06 Change Date: 28 Dec 2010 at 18:40:34

Marriage 1 Abigail Mather b: 16 Apr 1677 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts c: 20 Apr 1677 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Married: ABT 1690 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts

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Rev John White Memorial

Birth: 1677 Death: Jan. 16, 1760

First settled minister in Gloucester. Died in the 58th year of his ministry. He was a Harvard graduate, married three times with 11 children, all by his first wife. He came to Gloucester in 1702, leaving his position of chaplain at Fort Saco, Maine to come to Cape Ann. During his ministry, the town separated into four parishes. His home, the White-Ellery house, built in 1710, still stands in Gloucester and is a museum. It is one of only a few First Period buildings still extant in Massachusetts.

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Parents:

 Joseph White (1642 - 1725)

 Hannah Scarborough White (1643 - 1721)

Burial: First Parish Burial Ground Gloucester Essex County Massachusetts, USA

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John White (1677 - 1760)

Rev. John White
Born 1677 [location unknown]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Joseph White and Hannah (Scarborough) White
Brother of Mary White, Joseph White, Hannah (White) Davis, Samuel White, Benjamin White, Frances White and Samuel White
Husband of Lucy (Wise) White — married 9 Jun 1703 (to 5 Mar 1727) in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
Husband of Abigail (Mather) White — married 26 Aug 1727 (to 10 Dec 1748) in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusettsmap
Husband of Alice (Norwood) White — married 1 Jun 1749 in Ipswich, Essex, MAmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Lucy (White) Moody and John White
Died 16 Jan 1760 at about age 83 in Gloucester, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Reverend John White, of Gloucester, was born about 1677. [1]He graduated Harvard 1698, was ordained minister at Gloucester April, 1703 and served at the First Church of Gloucester, Mass. until his death[2]16 Jan. 1760, age 83.[3] [4]He was buried at First Parish Burying Ground in Gloucester. John's once vandalized gravestone was removed for safe-keeping and plaque is in place, which adds the following historical information: He came to Gloucester in 1702, leaving his position of chaplain at Fort Saco, Maine to come to Cape Ann. [5]

His first wife, whom he married about 1703 in Gloucester, Massachusetts was Lucy Wise, daughter to 'the excellent John Wise'. [6]She died March 5, 1727 in Gloucester and was mother to all his children. [1]

He married in 1722 in Gloucester. [7]as his second wife the widowed Abigail Blake (née Mather), daughter of Rev. Increase Mather.[8] [1]Abigail died 10 Dec 1748 Gloucester MA[9]

His third wife was Mrs. Alice Norwood, to whom he was married on June 1, 1749. She survived him. [1] [10]He died in Gloucester in 1760. "White: John, Rev., Jan. 16, 1760, in his 83d y."

The following notice of his death is in the Gloucester records : The Rev. Mr John White who had been settled a minister in this town from the 21 day of October 1702 as appears by Votes of the Town on Record deceased in his chair about eleven of the clock in the forenoon on the 16 day of January 1760 being the 59 year after his beginning his ministry here and the eighty third year of his age.[11]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the allied families, with tracings of English ancestry, Vol II Underhill, Lora Altine Woodbury. Publisher Cambridge, Priv. print. at the Riverside Press, 1910. P. 1053
↑ History of Gloucester, Massachusetts, by John J. Babson, i860: 224.
↑ Gloucester - Deaths - Massachusetts Vital Records Project Online database of images and transcriptions courtesy of John Slaughter.
↑ Honorable Thomas J. Lothrop of Brookline, NEHGR 52(1898):421-426, John White of Watertown and Brookline and Some of His Descendants, https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-....
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #55412444
↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCC9-L83 : 9 February 2018), John White and Lucy Wise, 09 Jun 1703; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0547505 IT 1.
↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCHC-DL2 : 9 February 2018), John White and Abigail Blague, 26 Aug 1727; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0823641 V. 1-2.
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/68613:7853?ssrc=p....
↑ Find a Grave web site, "Electronic," https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/18534420:60525.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-9GMF : 3 November 2017), John White and Alice Norwood, 01 Jun 1749; citing Marriage, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011153.
↑ Gloucester Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1642-1780: 312
Pierce, John. "Historical Sketch of Brookline", Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, 1814) Vol. 2, Page 156