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About Alexander White, Sr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95830567/alexander-white has errors.
Research Notes
The Mayflower Society does not recognize the commonly asserted marriage of Jonathan White to Margaret Elizabeth Alexander. Her existence is unsupported by any primary sources, and she is most likely fictional. Please do not add her as a spouse to this profile, or her supposed children: Alexander and Margaret. [1]
Family
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Alexander White married on 21 Mar 1736 in Sussex, New Jersey to Mary McMurtrie (b: 18 Apr 1711; d: 1781) and their children included [2] ...
- William Holmes White, b: 1737; d: 1792 Oxford, Sussex, NJ; m: Martha Matilda Mason
- Elizabeth White, b: 1743
- Alexander McMurtie White, b: 04 Jun 1752; d: 1815; m: Mary Beavers
- Peregrine White, b: 1754
- Mary White, b: 1754; d: 1816; m: James Russell (not Joseph Beavers)
- Prudence White, b: 1756; d: 1803 Sussex, NJ; m: (tentative) James Clifford
- Samuel A. White, b: 16 Mar 1758; d: 21 Oct 1841 Briggsdale, Pickaway, OH; m: 04 Apr 1780 Jane Stewart
- Sarah White, b: 1759; m: Abner Calkins
- Henry White, b: 1762
- John White b: 1764.
Biography
Alexander migrated west, upon arriving in New Jersey from his birthplace of MA, he married Mary McMurtrie in N.J., 1736. He prospered as a shoemaker, farmer and lawyer. The Whites built a most imposing home in he Warren Co., NJ, region, proudly named WHITE HALL. General (George) Washington was sakd to have stayed at WHITE HALL en route to his army encamplent at Morristown, in 1780. William Henry Harrison, the Whig who opened up Ohio and Indiana for settlement after defeating the Shawnee Indians and Tecumseh at Tippecanoe, delivered a presidential campaign speech from the upper veranda of WHITE HALL.
Alexander White and his wife Mary saw three of their sons join the fight for the colonies' independence from England. "Oxford Township claims credit for the first two soldiers from our country to join the revolution...Captain McMurtrie and Lieutenant William White, both of whom were in the Sussex Co., committee of Safety, joined the Army at Bston right after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Lieut White is the son of Alexander White." That battle was fought June 17th 1775 and William White was approx 38 yrs old. Son Alexander also fought in the rev war. The youngest son, Samuel White, was 18 when he enlisted a year later.
Alexander White drew his last will and testament on Sep 7th, 1776, naming his wife Mary, and his son, William, his executors.
Origin notes
Alexander White, Sr. is not accepted as a child of Jonathan White by the Mayflower Society.
Please do not reconnect Jonathan White as father.
"The authors found no evidence to support the claim of Roscoe R. White in White Family Record (1939) pp 22-5, that onathan White m. 8 Aug 1708 Margaret Elizabeth Alexander, b. Ca. 1670 and had 2 children: Alexandr b. 8 Sept. 1709, and Margaret. Alexander is said to have d. Greenwich NJ in Sept. 17767 having had 10 children, including one name Peregrine. When Roscoe White submitted this lineage to the Mayflower Society, the only evidence offered was a record in a family Bible printed in 1870, with all entries in the same hand. The Society does not accept this lineage."[1]
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Alexander White, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1709 |
September 8, 1709
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Yarmouth, Barnstable County, MA, United States
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| 1734 |
1734
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Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States
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1736
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New Jersey, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
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1737
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New Jersey, United States
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1738
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New Jersey, United States
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| 1751 |
1751
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New Jersey, United States
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| 1752 |
June 4, 1752
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Bloomsbury, Warren County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
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1755
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Sussex, New Jersey, United States
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March 16, 1758
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Sussex, New Jersey, United States
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