Person:Thomas White (24)

'Anne Looman.--Thomas White, aged about 60 yeares & ... saith, they were with Mrs. Anne Looman of Weymouth ... deposed 20th October, 1659.'

'THOMAS WHITE, carpenter, born about 1599 (called "about 60" in 1659 ... [Suffolk Probate #215]); died Weymouth, MA between 5 July 1679 when he wrote his will and 28 August 1679 when his inventory was taken (Suffolk Probate #1111); married say 1635 (based on 1636 Weymouth land grant) (_____) (_____), born say 1615, died say 1650.'
In the early 1900s, researcher Elizabeth French Bartlett 'demonstrably eliminated as the New England immigrant' a number of English Thomas Whites, including those from families in Ravenstone, Buckingshamshire and Fiddleford, Dorset. Thomas' English orgins are still unknown.

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THOMAS WHITE
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1635 (based on admission to freemanship on 3 March
1635/6 [MBCR 1:371]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Weymouth.
OCCUPA TION: Carpenter [NEHGR 53:393, citing a deed of 1678 to Samuel White, apparently unrecorded].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Weymouth church prior to 3 March 1635/6 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 3 March 1635/6 (second in a sequence of three Weymouth men) [rvt:BCR 1:371]. Oath of allegiance at Weymouth, 1678 [SCC 974].
EDUCATION: Signed a deposition [SPR 1:333]. Signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at £1 2s. 6d. [SPR 12:3 16].
OFFICEHOLDING: Deputy for Weymouth to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 18 April 1637, 2 November 1637, 6 May 1657, 11 May 1670 [MBCR 1:192, 205, 3:422, 4:1:286, 4:2:448]. Massachusetts Bay assessor, 15 November 1637 [MBCR 1:209]. Suffolk grand jury (as "Thom[as] White Senior" ), 30 July 1672 [SCC 127]. Coroner 's ju1y , 1 November 1675 [Kempton Anc 1 :498, citing MA Arch 39:457].
His inventory included "1 musket" valued at 20s. [SPR 12:316].
ESTATE: In 1636 "Thomas White" was granted a great lot of 21 acres at Weymouth [Weymouth Hist 1:199]. In the Weymouth land inventory of about 1643, "Thomas White" held five parcels: "fourteen acres in the Westemeck first given to himself'; "one acre of salt marsh which was frrst given to William Reade"; "one acre of salt marsh by Burying Island first given to Mr. Newman"; "twenty and one acres amongst the great lots first given to himself'; and "one acre ... which said land was allowed him of consideration of land laid out for the country highway" [Weymouth Hist 1:193].
In his will, dated 5 July 1679 and proved 28 August 1679, "Thomas White Senior" bequeathed to "my son Joseph White all my wearing apparel"; to "my son Samuel's wife Mary my great Bible '; to "my granddaughter Lidya White my brass kettle; to "my grandchild Hannah Baxter my brass pot"; to "my grandchild Mary White my pewter platter"; to "all my now grandchildren five shillings in money each of them and all of them as they sl1all come of age"; to "my son Ebenezar White five pounds in money toward the education of my grandchild Ebenezar White provided that my son Ebenezar brings hi1n up to learning fit for the ministry"; to "our reverend Pastor Mr. Samuel Torrey twenty shillings in money"; "that twenty acres remaining in the upper division of Weymouth Town Commons equally betwixt my son Samuel and Ebenezar"; "all my money and moveables of what quantity and quality soever it shall be apprized as money and my five child1·en Joseph, Samuel, Thomas, Ebenezar and my daughter Hannah, shall have equal alike portions"; "in case Elder Edward Bate shall be living when I decease, I give him ten shillings in money"; "my son Samuel White to be sole executor”; "my friend Thomas Dun to be my overseer" [SPR 6:288].
The inventory of the estate of "Thomas White late of Weymouth now deceased," taken 26 August 1679, totalled £176 17s., of which £5 was real estate: "20 acres of land, £5 [SPR 12:316].

Samuel White, son of Thomas White, died Without surviving issue and, in his will of 2 December 1698, included bequests to his close relatives: "Mary my beloved wife" (land, moveables and "four negro servants, Frank, Ziporah, Charles & Margaret"); "Samuel White, my cousin, son to my eldest brotl1er Joseph White"; "my cousin Ebenezer White, my brother Ebenezer White's son"; "Thomas White, my brother Thomas White's son"; "John White, my brother Joseph White's son"; "Ebenezer White, my brother Joseph's son"; "Experience White, daughter unto my brother Joseph White"; "Hannah, daughter unto my brother Joseph White"; "my brother Joseph White and my brother Thomas White and my brother Ebenezer White and my sister Hannah Baxter and my cousin Joseph White, son to my brother Joseph White, and Mary White, daughter to my brother Thomas White, & Hannah Dyer, daughter unto my sister Hannah Baxter"; "Thomas White & Samuel White and Ann Traske, children of my brother Joseph White"; "Samuel White and Joseph White & Ebenezer White, sons of my brother Thomas white"; "Mr. Ebenezer White and Thomas White and Samuel White and Joseph White and Benjamin White & Hannah White & Abigail White and Experience White and Elizabeth White, children of my brother Ebenezer White"; "Mr. Joseph Baxter and John Baxter and Samuel Baxter, sons of my sister Hannah Baxter"; "Mr. Benjamin Ruggles, my wife' s sister's son"; "my beloved wife Mary White to be sole executrix; "my brother Ebenezer White and my brother Joseph Dyar to be overseers"; "Lidia Cook and Mary Hill, daughters unto my brother Joseph White" [SPR 14:81-82].
BIRTH: About 1599 (deposed on 21 October 1659 "aged about sixty years" [SPR 1:333]).
DEATH: Between 5 July 1679 (date of will) and 26 August 1679 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: By about 1635 ____ ____. She was living as late as about 1649, when her youngest child was born, but was not named in her husband's will in 1679.
ASSOCIATIONS: In 1996 Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn discussed tl1e evidence relevant to the English origin of Thomas White (without reaching any conclusion) [Ke1npton Anc 1 :493-96].
COMMENTS: On 26 April 1642, "Thomas White" was one of the agents of the town of Weymouth in the land settlement with the Indians [Weymouth Hist 1 :173-74; SLR 13:349-50].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1879 Gilbert Nash published an account of this family in the Weymouth Gazette, based on family records; this was reprinted in 1899 [NEHGR 53:392-96].
In 1996 Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn compiled a comprehensive account of this immigrant and his family, with a line of descent through his son Joseph; this account includes information on office holding and landholding derived from the unpublisl1ed Weymouth town records [Kempton Anc 1 :493-506].

p. 183 (and also 199): Thomas White had 21 acres in Weymouth in 1636.
p. 203: Took oath of allegiance to His Majesty, Charles II in 1678-79.

Capt. Thomas White was born in England, the exact date of his birth unknown...
It is of record that he came to America in 1630, for in that year we find him as a citizen of Weymouth, Mass.
An early writer has stated that he was a son of William White, who came over in the Mayflower and who according to tradition left his son Thomas in England to be educated....

There is no record as to the name of his wife or where she came from or the date of her death or place of burial, but is undoubtably true that she was of Weymouth and that she died and was buried there...

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He was made a freeman in 1635...
In 1635 he was designated as Captain Thomas White and was in command of a military company for the maintenance of peace with the Indians.
Year after year he was selected to represent Weymouth in the General Court at Boston (1637-1657 continuously; and again for one term in 1671).
He died in Weymouth in August 1679.

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