Peter White

History of Addison County, Edited by H. P. Smith, D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1886. Page 470 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY

• CHAPTER XXIV. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LEICESTER.
  • Page 473 TOWN OF LEICESTER. Peter White was an early settler near the Salisbury line, on the road leading to Lake Dunmore.
  • Page 477 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY. Epidemic of 1813 etc.--The epidemic of 1813 was unusually severe in Leicester. The first victim of the dread disease was a soldier of the War of 1812, who was on his way home on a furlough. He was taken ill while in
  • Page 478 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY. Leicester, and was placed in the house and under the care of Dr. Gile. His throat and tongue were terribly parched and swollen. He died within twenty-four hours. Jonas Barker died of it. Mr. White, then town clerk (living on the east road), and his wife both died of it, the husband, who died in the morning, surviving his wife but a few hours. They left six children.

--------------------------------------------------- Note: according to the reference to the wife on page 478 that would be Eunice Sawyer White.