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Rev. John White
chr.6 Jan 1575 Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, England
d.21 Jul 1648 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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m. 1570
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John White (1575 – 21 July 1648) was an English clergyman and the rector of a parish in Dorchester, Dorset. He was instrumental in obtaining charters for the New England Company, and the Massachusetts Bay Company. He took a personal interest in the settlement of New England. His parishioners founded Salem, Massachusetts. 'A man of great godliness...he had a very strong sway in this town. He greatly set forward the emigration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where his name lives in unfading remembrance'. Rev. John drew up a family pedigree which is preseved in the Hampshire Visitations dated 1634. He states he was descended form Thomas White of Pulve near Farnam, and from “a younger brother of hte Whites of Southwickie, County Hampshire” but does not give the intervening ancstors.
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