Sgt. Thomas White, of Braintree

He was made a freeman of the Colony Oct.12,1681, came to Braintree before 1693 when he was elected tithingman. He took the oath of allegiance at Braintree as a Braintree resident about 1678 (Vol.29 Boston Record Comm. Reports).

S.P.16-146: Will of Thomas White of Braintree "being weak" etc. To wife Mary, half my housing & lands adjoining, both upland & meadow on both sides of the way, not before given, and 2 cows, 6 sheep, one of my best swine & half household goods to be at her dispose. To son Thomas as addition to what already, which is considerable, a piece of salt marsh 1 acre adjoining his meadow & 5 or 6 acres fresh meadow & upland lying upon Smelt Brook river adjoining his own land extending to a rocky run northerly and so upon a square line to Smelt Brook river, & 1/4 part of my out woodlands and cedar swamp & £36 in money. To son Samuel, half a piece containing about 20 acres adjoining his home lands, south on land of Col. Hunt, & half a piece of salt marsh bought of William Veasey & 1/4 of my outlands and cedar swamp. To son Joseph, half the piece of land adjoining my son Samuel's homeland bounded Southerly on Col. Hunt, containing about 20 acres & half a piece of salt marsh bought of William Veasey & 1/4 of outlands & cedar swamp. To son Ebenezer, half my housing & lands adjoining, on both sides of way both upland and meadow, to be enjoyed by him immediately after my decease & other half after my wife's decease & 1/4 part of outlands & swamp provided he pay £10 after my wife's decease to whom she shall dispose of it in her life time, and also £10 to my grandson Thomas White, son of son Thomas and also 40 shillings to each of the eldest of my grandchildren of my sons & daughters at 21. To daughter Mary Holbrook, my young orchard containing 3 acres adjoining my homelands & my great brass kettle & my cow. Remainder of moveables to my four sons equally. Sons Samuel & Ebenezer executors. Mar.28,1706 - May 16,1706. Witness: Jacob Nash, Step. French, Wm. Nash.

-147: Inventory, Apr.19,1706: To the homestead housing & lands & meadow, £200. 20 a. adjoining Col. Hunt & Samuel White £40. 5 a. at head of Joseph White's pasture £10. 6 a. cedar swamp £20. outlands £10. 3 1/2 acres salt marsh £35. Total £444/7/6, taken by Ephraim Hunt & Jacob Nash.

Sources

1. Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008), 1:502, 505. 'Chidren, surname WHITE: ... THOMAS, born say 1643 (since his father is called Sr. in 1664 ...); died Braintree, MA 11 April 1706 (BVR, 696); married say 1670 MARY (_____), born say 1640, probably the "Mrs. White the aged" who was buried Braintree 3 January 1722/3 ...'
2. Bates, Samuel. Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. (Randolph, Massachusetts : D.H. Huxford, 1886), page 696. 'Thomas White, dyed [th]e eleventh day of April 1706.'

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This line is NOT directly related to William "Mayflower" White - they arrived 15 years later, at Weymouth.