John White of Lunenburg

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John White, in his own words

If he could speak to us today, John White might describe his life as follows. I was born about 1720, undoubtedly in the Colony of Virginia, and by 1760 was living in Lunenburg County with my wife, Phoebe Carter, and 3 teenage sons. Our home was on Reedy Creek, south of present-day Victoria, and we were parishioners of Cumberland Parish. After Phoebe died, probably in the 1780s, I married Penelope and had two more sons. The older boys were too old to fight during the Revolution, and my younger ones, too young. At the outbreak, I owed the Petersburg store of British merchant Wm. Cunningham & Co. £8.17.31⁄2. Since the war did not extinguish the debt, I had to pay it many years later.

Carter and John stayed nearby in Lunenburg while my other sons were later in Georgia, Kentucky, and elsewhere. I lived to be about 70. Since I had given all my land to my older boys, by 1791 all I had was some personal property to leave to my wife and her sons. Born an Englishman, I died a Virginian. The family of John White

This table recaps the family of John White, my paternal great great great great great great-grandfather (eight generations). Only the wife from whom I descend is shown.

• His parents Unidentified
• His wife 341 Phoebe Carter

His children

• William White (c.1743-1818)
• 170 Carter White (c.1745-1833)
• John White (c.1747-1796)

John and his wife, Phoebe, whom we presume to be Phoebe Carter, were the parents of three known sons. John married second Penelope and they had two sons named in John’s will. Because the Cockerham family was so closely connected to the White family, John’s second wife may have been Penelope Cockerham, a daughter of Minor Cockerham. After her father died, her uncle John Cockerham gave livestock to Penelope and her two sisters 3 September 1763.

• Daniel Green White
• David White