Henry White, II, "the Quaker"

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Henry White II (son of Henry White & Rebecca Arnold) was a leading Quaker, North Carolina colonial official, and Christian poet.

• Not the same as Henry White, of Bruton Parish
• Not the husband of Mary Taylor

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-430

Henry White II (ca. 1642 to 3 October 1712) was married twice: [1]

By his first wife Mary were daughters

1. Ann (1669),
2. Elizabeth, and
3. Elkanah (1679),
4. and sons Robert (1674),
5. and twins James (1676) and
6. John (1676)

NOTE: Only sons Robert and John survived childhood.

By his second wife, Damaris Morison, were daughters

1. Mary,
2. Damaris,
3. Content, and
4. Naomy, and sons
5. Henry III,
6. Arnold II, and
7. Isaac.

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Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dgburt&id=I335

Henry WHITE (Henry WHITE2, William WHITE1) was born 1635 in Virginia, USA, and died 19 SEP 1706 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.

He married

1. MARY ABT 1668. She was born ABT 1640, and died 03 MAY 1679 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.
2. Damaris PAGE ABT 1681 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA, daughter of Isaac PAGE and Damaris SHATTUCK. She was born ABT 1659 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, and died 07 NOV 1722 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.

Children of Henry WHITE and MARY are:

• 2 i. Ann WHITE was born 05 DEC 1669 in Little River MM, NC.
• 3 ii. Elizabeth WHITE was born 29 DEC 1673 in Little River MM, NC, and died 01 DEC 1728 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA. She married Amos DAVIS 26 JUN 1690 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA. He was born ABT 1670, and died 14 DEC 1716 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA. She married James NEWBY 16 MAY 1719 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA, son of John NEWBY and Magdalene. He was born 1672 in VA or NC, and died 01 NOV 1760 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA.
• + 4 iii. Robert WHITE was born 02 JAN 1674 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA, and died 16 NOV 1732.
• + 5 iv. John WHITE was born 20 JUL 1676 in Little River MM, NC, and died 25 JAN 1717 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.
• 6 v. James WHITE was born 20 JUL 1676 in Little River, North Carolina, USA. He married Sarah ALFORD 02 NOV 1703 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA.
• 7 vi. Elkanah WHITE was born 04 APR 1679 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA, and died BEF 1706.

Children of Henry WHITE and Damaris PAGE are:

• 8 i. Mary WHITE was born 15 OCT 1682 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died AFT 1706.
• 9 ii. Damaris WHITE was born 06 FEB 1684 in Little River, Pasquotank Co., NC, and died 18 JUN 1720 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA. She married John SYMONS 08 AUG 1700 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA, son of Thomas SYMONS and Rebecca WHITE. He was born 22 MAY 1678 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA, and died JAN 1742 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.
• 10 iii. Content WHITE was born ABT 1687 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died AFT 1706.
• + 11 iv. Henry WHITE was born 25 JUN 1690 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died 02 APR 1739 in New River, Watauga, North Carolina, USA.
• + 12 v. Arnold WHITE was born 30 SEP 1693 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died ABT 1751 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.
• 13 vi. Mary WHITE was born SEP 1696 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died 05 MAY 1723. She married William EVERGREEN MAR 1721 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA. He was born ABT 1696.
• 14 vii. Isaac WHITE was born 24 JUL 1700 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died 02 SEP 1715.
• 15 viii. Naomi WHITE was born 30 SEP 1704 in Little River, North Carolina, USA, and died 09 NOV 1771. She married James NEWBY 12 JUL 1732 in Pasquotank, North Carolina, USA. He was born 14 SEP 1710 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA, and died 01 NOV 1760 in Perquimans, North Carolina, USA.

Supporting data

On September 25, 1663 obtained from the Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, Knt., who at that time claimed the right of granting land in North Carolina, a patent of 700 acres in that province, which is described as being "on a small creek called Corawtucks, that falls into the Kecoughtank River." In the patent the water courses are described by their Indian names, but this land was situate in what was afterwards Pasquotank Precinct, the river referred to being the Little River, as appears by a deed dated April 16, 1717, when his eldest son, Robert White, in consideration of 100 Pounds, conveyed to Robert Lowery "all that land lying and being within the patent of the s'd Robert Lowery, which belonged to the s'd Robert White as eldest son of Henry White, dec'd & which was granted to his father in a King's patent, bearing date ye 25: 7br (September) 1663. In 1696 the authorities of North Carolina granted to "Mr. Henry White" a tract of land in Pasquotank Precinct containing 100 acres.
The first mention of a Friends meeting at Little River was at the Monthly Meeting on 7-10-1681. At that time, the Meeting met at the house of Henry Prows. The Monthly Meeting circulated here every other month during 1681 and 1682 when it was divided into two Monthly Meetings (Pasquotank & Little River MM and Perquimans MM).

After the friendly division of the MM, Pasquotank & Little River MM continued to meet at Henry Prows' house until c. 1696. When the MM met on 9-5-1696, it was held at the house of Henry White. Little River meeting met at the house of Henry White from 1696 until it was laid down on 2-5-1705. The MM met here 1696-1702. Little River meeting was opened again on 2-19-1716. Mr. White was one of the most prominent members of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting. The first book of records of that meeting is principally in his handwriting, and besides the matter usually entered in records of that character, contains copies of several wills and an original sermon in verse entitled "The Fall of Man", written and recorded by Henry White. The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held at his home at Little River, and the following record on his death shows in what estimation he was held by his neighbors: "Our Dear and Well-Belove friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd of ye 8 mo.1712, having been aged about 77; A True and faithful man to God's Everlasting Truth.

Biography

The following is from a very old book in the San Diego Public Library.
It is called "The Ancestry of Samuel Stockton White....With Accounts of The Families of White, Newby, Rose, Cranmer, Stout, Smith, Stockton, Leeds, Fisher, Gardiner, Matthews, Elton, Revell, Stayce, Tonkin, Carey and Johnson" by William Francis Cregar. Philadelphia, 1888. 161p.

Chapter I.

White Family

The White family were among the early arrivals in Virginia, and presum- ably came from England, as the name at that early date was not so general in Ireland, and the profession of the first settler of the name rendered it improbable that he was an Irishman. He was the Rev. George White, a clergy- man of the Church of England, who in June 1635 obtained a grant of 200 acres on the "Ranzemund River", and subsequently other large grants of land in what was then New Norfolk County, but which has since been subdivided. In 1637 his wife Blanche and their son Peter were mentioned, and in 1648 allusion is made to a wife Margaret. In 1639 a James White obtained a grant of 350 acres in James City County, which was "bounded on the west by the Church Yard." What relationship these persons bore to the Rev. Mr. White, the first of the name in the province, the compiler is unable to say as the county records of wills, conveyances, etc., were either destroyed or lost during the late war; but it seems highly probable that they were in some way connected with him, and possible were brothers of Henry White, ancestor of the North Carolina family, who arrived in the province about the same time and took up land in the same county.

Unfortunately the compiler has not been able to connect them with any family in the "Old Country", nor to obtain any information about the Rev. George White which would afford a clew to the ancestry of the other of the name in Virginia, though he visited England twice, when he examined all the likely sources of information, including the registers of the Perogative Court of Canterbury, which contain wills from all parts of the kingdom; besides examining the local wills of the County of Wilts, and the parish registers of Charlton, in that county, where a family of Whites resided, among whom the name of Henry is frequently found. Owing to the great number of English families of the name, he was reluctantly obliged to give up the quest as he felt convinced that all researches, short of an investigation of the family history of all the Whites in the three kingdoms, must prove futile unless evidence whould be discovered in Virginia which would identify them with some particular locality.

I. Henry White, 1st of James City, County, Virginia, planter, was as has been previously stated, probably the brother of James and John White. His name first appears July 4, 1649, when he received a grant of 200 acres of land "lying in Black Water, upon the easternmost branch, poynting up to Upper Chipoakes, in the County of James Cittie, bounded east upon the s'd swamp, north upon the Land of Francis England, south towards the land of Peter Wall, and west into the woods." September 25, 1663, when styled "Senior", - the grant to his son, was styled "Junior", which is afterwards referred to, bearing the same date and being recorded on the same page, - he obtained a patent for 200 acres on the south side of the Carolina River. In February (12th mo., O.S.) of that year he, together with Peter Gill, obtained a grant of 1000 acres in Charles City County, and May 9, 1666, one for himself alone of 1800 acres in Accomac County. It is probable that Henry White did not long survie this purchase, but the absence of any county records for that period renders it impossible to ascertain the exact year of his decease.

Issue of Henry White, 1st and _______ ______, his wife: i. Henry, of whom hereafter. ii. Arnold, of Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina; m. Mary ______ who d. in March 1678-9. He d. 3d mo (May) 23, 1690, leaving issue an only son Arnold. In his will, for which see Appendix II, he mentions his brothers, Henry White and Thomas Symons. See Appendix I. No. 3. iii. [a daughter], m. Thomas Symons, of Symons Creek, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle Co, North Carolina.

II. Henry White, 2d, of Little River, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina, planter, (son of Henry, 1st, and ______,) born in 1635, and, September 25, 1663 obtained from the Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, Knt., who at that time claimed the right of granting land in North Carolina, a patent of 700 acres in that province, which is described as being "on a small creek called Corawtucks, that falls into the Kecoughtank River." See Appendix II. In the patent the water courses are described by their Indian names, but this land was situate in what was afterwards Pasquo- tank Precinct, the river referred to being the Little River, as appears by a deed dated April 16, 1717, when his eldest son, Robert White, in consider- ationof 100 Pounds, conveyed to Robert Lowery "all that land lying and being within the patent of the s'd Robert Lowery, which belonged to the s'd Robert White as eldest son of Henry White, dec'd & which was granted to his father in a King's patent, bearing date ye 25: 7br (September) 1663. In 1696 the authorities of North Carolina granted to "Mr. Henry White" a tract of land in Pasquotank Precinct containing 100 acres.

Mr. White was one of the most prominent members of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting. The first book of records of that meeting is principally in his handwriting, and besides the matter usually entered in records of that character, contains copies of several wills and an original sermon in verse entitled "The Fall of Man", written and recorded by Henry White. The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held at his home at Little River, and the following record on his death shows in what estimation he was held by his neighbors: "Our Dear and Well-Belove friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd of ye 8 mo.1712, having been aged about 77; A True and faithful man to God's Everlasting Truth."

Henry White, 2nd married, first about 1660 Mary ______, who died 3rd mo. (May) 3, 1679, when he married secondly in 1680 Demaris Morrison, who died 9th mo. (November) 7, 1722.

Issue of Henry White 2nd, and Mary _______, his first wife. i. Margaret, b. 1662; m., 4th mo. (June) 24, 1679, Solomon, son of Richard Pool, of London, from whom descend Dr. Pool and Hon. Walter Pool, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. ii. Ann, b. at Little River, 10th mo. (December) 5, 1669. iii. Elizabeth, b. at Little River,10th mo. (December) 29, 1673; m. first 4th mo. (June) 24, 1690 Amos Davis, [** my BHA51'] and secondly, James Newby. [** my BHA51"] See that family, Chapter II. iv. Robert, of whom hereafter. (twin) v. James, b. at Little River, 5th mo. (July) 20, 1676. vi. John, (twin), b. at Little River, 5th mo. (July) 20, 1676; m. Elizabeth dau of John Newby. [** my BHA53] See that family, Chapter II, and Appendix I, No. 5. vii. Elkanah, b. at Little River, 2d mo. (April) 4, 1679.

Issue of Henry White, 2d and Damaris Morrison, his second wife. i. Mary, b. at Little River, 8th mo. (October) 1682; d. without issue. ii. Damaris, b. at Little River, 12th mo. (February) 1684; m. 6th mo. (August) 8, 1700, John, son of Thomas Symons. [** see my BGA71'] iii. Content. iv. Henry, b. at Little River, 4th mo. (June) 25, 1690; m. 3d mo. (May) 1727, Ruth Keaton; removed to New River, and d. 2d mo. (April) 2, 1739. [** my BGB71] See Appendix I, NO. 6. v. Arnold, b. at Little River, 7th mo. (September) 1693; m. and settled in Perquimans County, N.C. [** my BHA73] vi. Mary, b. at Little River, 7th mo. (September) 1696; m. 1st mo. (March) 1721, William Evergreen. vii. Isaac, b. at Little River, 4th mo. (June) 24, 1700; d. 7th mo. (September) 2, 1715. viii. Naomi, b. at Little River, 7th mo. (September) 1704; m. 5th mo. (July) 1782, James, son of James Newby. [** my BHA51] See Chapter II.

Son of Henry White and Rebecca Arnold. Married 1) Mary Moore, 5 children 2) Damaris Page, 8 children

Biography

Henry White, 2d, of Little River, Pasquotank Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina, planter, (son of Henry, 1st, and ______,) born in 1635, and, September 25, 1663 obtained from the Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, Knt., who at that time claimed the right of granting land in North Carolina, a patent of 700 acres in that province, which is described as being "on a small creek called Corawtucks, that falls into the Kecoughtank River." In the patent the water courses are described by their Indian names, but this land was situate in what was afterwards Pasquotank Precinct, the river referred to being the Little River, as appears by a deed dated April 16, 1717, when his eldest son, Robert White, in considerationof 100 Pounds, conveyed to Robert Lowery "all that land lying and being within the patent of the s'd Robert Lowery, which belonged to the s'd Robert White as eldest son of Henry White, dec'd & which was granted to his father in a King's patent, bearing date ye 25: 7br (September) 1663. In 1696 the authorities of North Carolina granted to "Mr. Henry White" a tract of land in Pasquotank Precinct containing 100 acres.
Mr. White was one of the most prominent members of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting. The first book of records of that meeting is principally in his handwriting, and besides the matter usually entered in records of that character, contains copies of several wills and an original sermon in verse entitled "The Fall of Man", written and recorded by Henry White. The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held at his home at Little River, and the following record on his death shows in what estimation he was held by his neighbors: "Our Dear and Well-Belove friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd of ye 8 mo.1712, having been aged about 77; A True and faithful man to God's Everlasting Truth."

References

• http://rea-williams.com/getperson.php?personID=I6507&tree=tree1
• ] Pasquotank (Symons Creek) MM, Vol I, William Wade Hinshaw, Page 124 (Reliability: 3).

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Henry White obtained a patent of 700 acres in Pasquotank County from Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, in 1663, making him one of the early settlers of North Carolina.

He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting.The first book of records of that meeting is principally in his hand writing, and besides the matters usually contained in records Quarterly Meetings, contains copies of several wills and an original sermon in verse entitled "The Fall of Man", written and recorded by himself. This piece of writing is credited by the North Carolina Museum of History as being the first poem written in North Carolina. http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/seventeenth.html

The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held in Henry's home until he built, according to Winslow's History of Perquimans County, "the first Quaker church in Perquimans, thought to be Little River Monthly Meeting , which was about where Woodville is situated". Henry gave land for the building of a school alongside the meeting house which was the first school built in North Carolina, where he also taught.

The entry in Quaker records noting his death, reads "Our Dear and Well-Beloved friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd ofye 8 mo.1712, having been aged about 77; A True and faithful man to God's Everlasting Truth."

Henry married Mary Croshaw, about 1660, and had the following children:

Margaret (1662-1679) Ann (1669- ) Elizabeth (1673 - ) Robert (1674- 1732) James (1676 - ) twin John (1676- 1717) twin Elkanah (1678-1706)

After Mary died about in 1679, he married Demaris Page Morrison in 1680 and they had the following children.

Mary (1682- ) Damaris (1684 - ) Constant ( ) Henry (1690- ) Arnold (1693- ) Mary 1696- ) Isaac (1700 - 700) Naomi (1704- )

As with many early Quakers, whose names were not placed on gravestones, the actual burial site of Henry White is not known. He is listed here because of his close association with the Little River Meetings. In addition, Ellen Winslow, author of A History of Perquimans County noted that ...."today a Quaker burying ground can be seen on a small eminence on the right side of the road going towards the old Weeks home across Little River.....Here in tranquil peace lie numbers of old residents of Quaker faith, probably in their midst the renowned Henry White and certainly Joseph Jordan".

Another source for Henry is, "The Ancestry of Samuel Stockton White....With Accounts of The Families of White, Newby, Rose, Cranmer, Stout, Smith, Stockton, Leeds, Fisher, Gardiner, Matthews, Elton, Revell, Stayce, Tonkin, Careyand Johnson" by William Francis Cregar. Philadelphia, 1888, Part II, 161p.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 April 2021), memorial page for Henry White (1635–3 Aug 1712), Find a Grave Memorial no. 95486741, citing Little River Friends Cemetery, Perquimans County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Jan (contributor 47388195) . 

• Hinshaw, Vol. I, page 107, "Elizabeth Newby, 2nd w. of Jeams & dt. Henry White, d. 12-1-1728, aged about 55 yrs."

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Henry White obtained a patent of 700 acres in Pasquotank County from Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, in 1663, making him one of the early settlers of North Carolina.

He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, being a minister and recorder of the Little River Quarterly Meeting.The first book of records of that meeting is principally in his hand writing, and besides the matters usually contained in records Quarterly Meetings, contains copies of several wills and an original sermon in verse entitled "The Fall of Man", written and recorded by himself. This piece of writing is credited by the North Carolina Museum of History as being the first poem written in North Carolina.

http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/seventeenth.html

The quarterly and monthly meetings were usually held in Henry's home until he built, according to Winslow's History of Perquimans County, "the first Quaker church in Perquimans, thought to be Little River Monthly Meeting , which was about where Woodville is situated". Henry gave land for the building of a school alongside the meeting house which was the first school built in North Carolina, where he also taught.

The entry in Quaker records noting his death, reads "Our Dear and Well-Beloved friend Henry White, Departed This Lyfe ye 3rd ofye 8 mo.1712, having been aged about 77; A True and faithful man to God's Everlasting Truth."

Henry married Mary Croshaw, about 1660, and had the following children:

Margaret (1662-1679)
Ann (1669- )
Elizabeth (1673 - )
Robert (1674- 1732)
James (1676 - ) twin
John (1676- 1717) twin
Elkanah (1678-1706)

After Mary died about in 1679, he married Demaris Page Morrison in 1680 and they had the following children.

Mary (1682- )
Damaris (1684 - )
Constant ( )
Henry (1690- )
Arnold (1693- )
Mary 1696- )
Isaac (1700 - 700)
Naomi (1704- )

As with many early Quakers, whose names were not placed on gravestones, the actual burial site of Henry White is not known. He is listed here because of his close association with the Little River Meetings. In addition, Ellen Winslow, author of A History of Perquimans County noted that ...."today a Quaker burying ground can be seen on a small eminence on the right side of the road going towards the old Weeks home across Little River.....Here in tranquil peace lie numbers of old residents of Quaker faith, probably in their midst the renowned Henry White and certainly Joseph Jordan".

Another source for Henry is, "The Ancestry of Samuel Stockton White....With Accounts of The Families of White, Newby, Rose, Cranmer, Stout, Smith, Stockton, Leeds, Fisher, Gardiner, Matthews, Elton, Revell, Stayce, Tonkin, Careyand Johnson" by William Francis Cregar. Philadelphia, 1888, Part II, 161p.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 April 2021), memorial page for Henry White (1635–3 Aug 1712), Find a Grave Memorial no. 95486741, citing Little River Friends Cemetery, Perquimans County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Jan (contributor 47388195) .