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Name Abel White
Gender Male
Birth? 1758 New Hampshire
Marriage to Unknown
Death? 1823 Greenup Co., Kentucky

BIOGRAPHY: Abel White received pay for service in Capt. Carlisle's Co. in Col. Timothy Bedel's Regiment in New Hampshire in 1776. The following year he was a private in Capt. John Cole's company, Col. Ashley's Regiment, which marched fro Westmoreland, N.H., for Ticonderoga on the alarm, 28 Jun 1777 (N.H. Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1:264, 2: 48).

     Abel White is listed as a member of the Congregational Church in

Middletown, Rutland Co., Vermont formed in 1784. He is also on the 1785 list o freemen for the same town. He is next found as head of a family in Chemung Town, Montgomery Co., N.Y., in the Federal Census of 1790, and in that of 1800 he is in Middletown, which in 1808 became the town of Addison.

    In an article published in the American Genealogist Vol. 48, no. 4, Oct.

1972 in an article entitled "ABEL WHITE (ca. 1758-1823) From New Hampshire to Kentucky" ,the author, J. Bradly Arthaud, M.D. states that Abel had two wives b legend but no name is given on his will dated 3 Oct. 1823 and probated 10 Nov. 1823 in Greenup Co. Kentucky. Sarah Comfort is allegedly one of his wives name but there is no documentation for proof of that. The family group sheet listed in this family history is taken from this will (the wife unnamed, only referred to as 'wife')

BIOGRAPHY: Abel White received pay for service in Capt. Carlisle's Co. in Col. Timothy Bedel's Regiment in New Hampshire in 1776. The following year he was a private in Capt. John Cole's company, Col. Ashley's Regiment, which marched fro Westmoreland, N.H., for Ticonderoga on the alarm, 28 Jun 1777 (N.H. Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1:264, 2: 48).

     Abel White is listed as a member of the Congregational Church in

Middletown, Rutland Co., Vermont formed in 1784. He is also on the 1785 list o freemen for the same town. He is next found as head of a family in Chemung Town, Montgomery Co., N.Y., in the Federal Census of 1790, and in that of 1800 he is in Middletown, which in 1808 became the town of Addison.

    In an article published in the American Genealogist Vol. 48, no. 4, Oct.

1972 in an article entitled "ABEL WHITE (ca. 1758-1823) From New Hampshire to Kentucky" ,the author, J. Bradly Arthaud, M.D. states that Abel had two wives b legend but no name is given on his will dated 3 Oct. 1823 and probated 10 Nov. 1823 in Greenup Co. Kentucky. Sarah Comfort is allegedly one of his wives name but there is no documentation for proof of that. The family group sheet listed in this family history is taken from this will (the wife unnamed, only referred to as 'wife')