Thomas White, Sr.

Biography

Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey, by Stillwell, John Edwin, 1853-1930, comp (Publication date 1903). Person # 2. Page 255. < Archive.Org >

2THOMAS WHITE, brother to Peter White, 3, was a carpenter, and bought land of Thomas Potter and Judah Allen, 6th month (Aug), 1675. The tradition is that he was from Deal, Kent Co., England , and settling on the Jersey shore named the place after that from which he had come.

1684/5, Jan 21. The inventory of his personal estate was made by Thomas Potter, Samuel Dennis, and Symon Charles, amounting to L140-2-0.

1684/5, Feb 4. Letters of administration were granted on the estate of Thomas White, to his son Samuel White of Shrewsbury.

1685. Accounts entered against September Court. Thomas Leonard vs. Samuel White, administrator to the estate of Thomas Thie[sic], deceased, in the account of debt due by said deceased. L2 , 4sh. od. Freehold Book of Deeds, B, Page 34.

1729, Oct 11. In a deed given by the executors of his son, Amos White, they state that Thomas White owned the "farm at Deal", whereon he died.

Issue

• 5 Samuel White, died about 1698; married Elizabeth Wardell
• 6 Thomas White, died 1712; married, first .....; second Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Cole
• 7 Amos White, died 1729/30; married, Feb 2, 1708, Hannah, daughter of Janet Mills.

Origins

It was previously assumed that Thomas White, the immigrant, was the father of Samuel White and of Peter White, and grandfather of Thomas White and of Samuel White, who married Elizabeth Wardell, and of Amos White, the first mentioned Samuel White being the father of these three sons. This was deemed to be the relationship between the different individuals mentioned, because real estate that had been acquired by the elder Samuel, as oldest son of Thomas, the immigrant, is found in the possession of the second Thomas, and presumably it could only have gotten there by the law of primogeniture. In reality the law referred to was strictly carried out, but, through the death of the son Joel White born to Samuel White, the property next went to Thomas as brother and not son of Samuel White.

There is no proof whatever that there were two Samuels, the one of the second generation having been the father of that Samuel who married Elizabeth Wardell. In fact, the evidence at hand, and particularly the expression made use of in the will of Peter White, appointing "cousins Samuel White and Thomas White as supervisors and assistants to their Aunt", requires that we regard Thomas White, the immigrant and Peter White, as brothers.

Who the parents of these men were we do not know.

Issue of Unknown Father

• 2. Thomas White, died 1684/1685; married......
• 3. Peter White, died 1697/1698, married Mary Worthley
• 4. William White (possibly) married, by license dated Aug 23, 1669, Katherine Dower, or Downs