WHITE, Philip, s. Andrew and Mary, [born] Nov. 20, 1717 [sic, see Samuell] [dup. Nov. 20, 1718].
[Note: the compilers' comment to see Samuel is caused by Samuel's recorded birth 12 Aug 1717. The original is on p. 25 and does give the date 12 Aug 1717 for Samuel, while Philip's original is lower down on the page and does say 20 Nov 1717. So, clearly, one of the dates has been misrecorded. Source:Jackson, Francis. History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800, p. 461, chooses to change Philip to 1718, but this appears arbitrary and probably wrong. (It is known Jackson had a hand in compiling the "town copy with additions", so it is assumed the reported dup. showing 1718 represents his work.) Studying the sequence of births on p. 25, no other date is recorded on the page is later than than 1717 so it would appear the entire page was written before 1718. If this is correct, Philip's birth could not have been in 1718, that was just somebody's guess to fix the problem. While Philip's birth is recorded with other births about the same time in 1717 as his recorded date, Samuel's immediately follows some births in 1716 and is itself followed by several siblings of a family that apparently just moved to Newton, so dates jump back to 1711 and then work their way back to 1716, before resuming a mostly chronological sequence that eventually includes Philip. It seems far more probable that Samuel was born in 1716 than that Philip was born in 1718.]
