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Facts and Events
References
- Bicknell, Thomas Williams. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. (New York: The American Historical Society, 1920)
111-113.
Nicholas White, immigrant ancestor and founder, was born in England, and is first of record in the American Colonies in 1643, when he was made a freeman in Dorchester. In 1647 he purchased land in the part of Dorchester called Uncaty, now Milton, and built a house there. His purchase subsequently involved him in considerable litigation, the records of which give an interesting sidelight on an attempted land swindle in the infancy of the Colony. Before he had lived at Milton, Mr. White was sued by one Hutchinson, who claimed a prior title. Mr. White sued Woolcot, from whom he had bought the land, and obtained judgment against him, and Woolcot gave bills to satisfy it. Unknown to White, at the same time, he petitioned the General Court for a stay of proceedings and the annulment of the bills and the petition was granted. White then sent a petition stating the facts of the case, but the outcome of this is not known, though it is thought likely that he regained possession of the property, from records in 1659 and 1663, which mention White's land. In 1652 he mortgaged a part of his land to John Gill, of Dorchester, and at that time was living in Dorchester. In October, 1655, he was a resident of Taunton, and in 1657 took the oath of fidelity there. He was very early an owner in the Taunton Iron Works, and was prominently connected with them for many years. He also owned a quarter of a saw mill on Mill river. This mill caused annoyance by preventing the free passage of fish up the river, and the court ordered that the owners make sufficient passage for the herring. He was one of the original sixteen purchasers of Block Island, or New Shoreham, in 1661, and went in April of that year with the others in a ship sailing for that place. He probably disposed of his right soon afterward, as his name is not in the first division, September, 1661. In 1668 he was one of the company which purchased the land called Taunton North Purchase, embracing the present town of Easton, nearly all of Mansfield and a large part of Norton. In 1672 he was among those who bought the Taunton South Purchase, consisting of Dighton and part of Berkley. Nicholas White was a large owner in Taunton's industries, and was of the wealthiest men of his day in the town. He married, about 1643, Susanna Humphrey, daughter of Jonas and Frances Humphrey, of Dorchester.
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- Cleaver, William Jessup. The ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup: 172 allied families. (Westfield, Indiana: W.J. Cleaver, c1989 (Baltimore, Maryland : Gateway Press))
933-36.
- Frederick J. Nicholson, The Family of Jonas1 Humphrey of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
68: 14-22.
- Baxter, James Phinney, and Robert Trelawny. The Trelawny Papers. (Portland, Maine: Maine Historical Society, 1884)
Ser 2 Vol 3 182.
- The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
17:196-97.
- Lothrop, Thomas J. (Thomas Jackson). The Nicholas White family: 1643-1900. (Taunton, Massachusetts: C.A. Hack & Son, 1902).
- Nicholas White, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
Case # 300.
married about 1643 SUSANNAH FOSTER, baptized in Wendover, Bucks., 14 July 1616, living in 1661/2 when her step-father, Jonas Humphrey, left her a token legacy, daughter ofTHOMAS and ELIZABETH (SEAMER) FOSTER.
- Misc.
Mass. Bay Colony Records 4:1:260
Transcript of Dorchester TR 1 : 106
inventory of the estate of Thomas Gatlive, June 1663, includes "...Land at Milton bought
of Goodman White" valued at £140.
Taunton Proprietors Book 2:8 & 2:62
Suffolk Deeds 7:250-51 & 8:386
- ↑ Nicholas White, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Bristol County). Probate records 1687-1916; index, 1687-1926. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968)
Volume 2 pages 9-12.
link Administration on the estate of Nicholas White of Taunton was granted to his son Nicholas on 14 October 1699. Nicholas White's personal property was appraised 13 July 1697, by Thomas Harvey and Ezra Dean and amounted to £52 2s 6d, making the total inventory £295 Is 6d returned to court by Nicholas White, administrator on the estate. The brothers John, Joseph and Nicholas White agreed to the division of their father's estate on 28 October 1698. John White received sixty acres of land at his home and at Hart's meadow, eight acres on the east side of Hart's brook, threefourths of a North Purchase share, half a town share, four acres of his father's home lot, a third of Hart's meadow, and movables, including a fifth part of a share in the old iron works, valued in total at £55 15s. Joseph White received twenty-five acres behind Prospect Hill, twenty-two acres at his house, twenty-two acres of land and meadow at Rumford, eight pounds in movables, including a fifth part in the old ironworks, two acres of meadow at Babbitt's brook, three fourths of a share in the North Purchase, half a share of a town purchase right, four acres of meadow at Scaddings, and six acres of land and three acres of swamp near widow Eddy's, totaling the same as his brother. Their sister Elizabeth, by then Pratt and a widow, received £38 4s according to her receipt dated 29 October 1698 and presented almost a year later on 14 October 1699.
inventory 2:9
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