Person:William White (32)
William White
b.abt 1590 England
d.21 FEB 1621 Plymouth, MA
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  • H.  William Whiteabt 1590 - 1621
  • W.  Susanna Fuller1594 - BET 1654 AND 1675
  1. Resolved Whiteabt 1615 - aft 1687
  2. Peregrine White1620 - 1704
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Name William White
Gender Male
Birth? abt 1590 England
Alt Birth? 10 Nov 1591 Leiden Netherlands
Death[1] 21 FEB 1621 Plymouth, MA
Alt Death? 14 MAR 1621 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? 15 MAR 1621 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States


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William White was a Mayflower passenger who settled in Plymouth Colony in 1620. He was born probably in England (year unknown) and died on the 21st of February, 1621, in Plymouth Colony.

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Ancestry

The ancestry of William White of the Mayflower is not known. Incorrect royal lineages have been given for him, as well as an incorrect identification of him as the son of Rev. John White of London. William Bradford wrote that William White came on the Mayflower with his wife "Susanna". There is a marriage record in Leyden on 27 January 1612 for a William White, woolcomber, and an "Anna" Fuller, sister of Samuel Fuller. The marriage was witnessed by Sarah Priest and Samuel Fuller. This record, however, does not relate to the Mayflower passenger, as commonly claimed. The reasons for this conclusion are as follows: A William White had Sarah Priest witness his marriage; a William White in 1621 witnessed the marriage of Sarah Priest. However, the William White of the Mayflower was dead in America and could not have witnessed Sarah Priest's marriage. It would therefore appear that this is not the William White who came on the Mayflower. Susanna, widow of William White, married second Edward Winslow. Anna Fuller was baptized in 1577, and Edward Winslow in 1595. It is most unlikely that 25-year old Edward Winslow would marry a woman 18 years older than him for his first wife. Children of William White were buried in infancy in 1613, 1615, and 1616. These deaths indicate it would be most unlikely they had a child Resolved in 1615. Susanna, wife of William White, is not Susanna Tilley either, another common claim. That "theory" was disproved in Pilgrim Notes & Queries 1:1.

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References
  1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    Citing Thomas Prince, A Chronological History of New England

  2.   William White (Mayflower passenger), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
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