Person:John White (312)

Rev. John White
m. 1570
  1. Elizabeth White1564 - Aft 1648
  2. Mary White1570 - 1637
  3. Rev. John White1575 - 1648
  4. Martha WhiteAbt 1577 - Aft 1648/49
  • HRev. John White1575 - 1648
  1. Unknown White
Facts and Events
Name Rev. John White
Gender Male
Christening[2] 6 Jan 1575 Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage to Unknown
Death[2][1] 21 Jul 1648 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Reference Number? Q1702142?


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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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References
  1. John White (colonist priest), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Heninger, Hattie Walton. Links of Walton History, Private publication (1972).