Colonel Joseph M. White, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A125225  

JOSEPH WHITE, b. Abt. 1710, Ireland; d. February 11, 1808, Anson County, NC

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-27752

Joseph White was born about 1696, the son of Moses "Old Moses" White. He married Margaret Leeth, the daughter of John Leeth on March 31, 1735 in , New Castle, Newcastle County, Delaware. Margaret died about 1748.

Joseph was appointed the first Sheriff of Anson County, North Carolina about 1749.

Joseph married a second time about 1753 to Margaret's sister Elizabeth Leeth.

He is believed to have married a third time to Alvarilla Harper.

Joseph died about February 11, 1808 in Anson County, North Carolina. The Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette posted obituaries on February 11, 1808 stating: "Died at his seat in Anson County, Mr. Joseph White at the extreme age of 112 years."[1]

Notes

• Medley, in her History of Anson County, N.C. lists Joseph White as among the 1st to receive a land grant in Anson County. Joseph was granted land along the Savannah Creek in 1746. Information regarding Joseph and George White contradicts and needs further verification. Based on the date of the Savannah land grant, the most likely birth year for Joseph White, Sr. is 1696 in Ireland. Joseph immigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania with Moses White, his father, in 1722. Religious persecution was a major motivation for immigrating. (Moses remained in New Castle, Delaware where he taught school until his death in 1735. Source: Patricia White Bittner’s RootsWeb site) Arriving in America in 1722 would give Joseph time to meet and marry Margaret Leeth, who was born on 3/31/1735 in New Castle, Delaware, (Source: Boone White’s Rootsweb site) and to migrate to Anson County, N.C. by 1746. Medley states that Joseph White was named a justice of the peace for the county in 1748 and that he acted as sheriff until the 1st official sheriff of Anson County could be named. Joseph thereby played a major role in the formation of a government for Anson County (pages 17-18). At that time, a Justice of the Peace did just that—kept the peace within a community. Joseph was an attorney by profession. His great grandson, Joseph White, Jr., was the owner and operator of White’s Store located in the "fine antebellum community" of what is now known as White’s Store (page 247). (1)

Sources

1. Lois Smathers Neal, Abstracts of Vital Records fron Raleigh, N. C., Newspapers, 1799-1839, North Carolina Genealogical Society, 2012, Vol. I, Pg.529.
2. http://www.pathwaytoascension.com/caudles/chap6.htm
3. http://www.tnyesterday.com/families/white/awhite.html
4. Descendants of Adam White - PDF File