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John White

Male 1755 - 1829  (~ 79 years)


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  • Name John White 
    Birth Between 1750 and 1755  North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth 2 May 1753  Granville County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death Between Jun 1829 and Oct 1829  Whitley County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Siblings 10 siblings 
    Person ID I7361  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
    Last Modified 14 Apr 2019 

    Father Richard White   d. Aft 17 Jul 1775, Bute County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Elizabeth   d. Aft 1775, Franklin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F755  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Shelton,   b. Abt 1760, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1824 (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Children 
     1. Richard White,   b. North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Hardin County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Harrison White,   b. 28 Feb 1790   d. 7 Nov 1853 (Age 63 years)
     3. John Calvin White,   b. Between 1793 and 1795   d. Aft 1870 (Age ~ 78 years)
    +4. Dempsey White,   b. Abt 1798, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1860, Hardin County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 63 years)
    +5. Nicholas White,   b. 15 May 1802, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 1876, Redbird, Whitley, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F4812  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2018 

    Family 2 Mary Hendrick   d. 1785 
    Marriage 1775  [2
    Children 
    +1. Charlotta "Lottie" White,   b. 1781, Franklin, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Feb 1872, Whitley County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     2. Hendrick White,   b. Abt 1783   d. Aft 1850, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years)
    Family ID F7689  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 May 2016 

  • Notes 
    • Called "John Calvin White" in some sources.

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      According to "familywest" on ancestry.com, his first marriage to Mary Hendrick is recorded in the Hendrick family Bible.

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      From Ancestry of Elizabeth Louise White by Steven C. Perkins:

      He was probably born 1750-55, as Nancy Jonckheere states that in 1777 he sold land inherited from his father, Richard. Was this the 330 acres in Bute County that he was devised? At that time he was stated to be a planter from Craven County. CHECK

      He was probably born in Warren County, N.C., and about 1798 he came to the portion of Knox that is now Whitley County. He died between June and October 1829, based upon his appearance in Whitley County Court as a Commissioner in June and an Order in October that his son, Dempsey, return court records. CHECK whitley order book 1 for his signature. He is probably in an unmarked grave at Redbird; there is a marker for a John White, but the date of death appears to be 1896.

      A John White was a taxpayer in Warren County, North Carolina in 1784. North Carolina Taxpayers, supra, v.2, p.217. A John White was a purchaser at an estate sale in Franklin County, N.C., confirmed in June of 1796, Bradley, Will Book B of Franklin County, North Carolina 1784-1804, 929.375654 qB811b 1988, p.16 and at a sale on 10 January 1799, p.38.

      A John White is on the Knox tax rolls for 1804, with 300 acres of 2d class land on the Cumberland, 2 horses and 6 slaves. A John White appears in the 1810 and 1820 Knox County censuses, and in Lincoln County before that; a John White is on an 8/3/1790 Lincoln tax list. John White and John White, Sr. appear on an 1816 Knox County tax list. A John White appears on a 1788 Fayette County tax list, as do two Williams and a James. Some Pre-1800 Kentucky Tax Lists, supra, p.11. CHECK

      On 28 September 1826 he granted Demcey (sic) White (a Whitley County resident) a Power of Attorney to deal with legacies he might be entitled to from the estates of his father, Richard White, or his mother, Elizabeth, in Franklin County, North Carolina. Whitley County Deed Book 1, p.145-6. Mark White was stated to be the Executor of Richard and Sherrod Celly/Kinney the administrator of Elizabeth. Decker (p. 305) says that Knox County Revolutionary War Veterans included John White of Virginia, and says that he is thought to have settled in Knox in about 1804; if so, that would not [may not] be our John.

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      The "Demcey" White mentioned above is almost certainly the Dempsey White who is recorded in Collins's History of Kentucky as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for Whitley County in 1833, 1835, 1838, and 1839; he was a son of this John White, and his daughter Nancy White (1838-1928) was the second wife of Patrick's greatX3-grandfather William Henderson Parker (1824-1898).

  • Sources 
    1. [S840] Ancestry of Elizabeth Louise White by Steven C. Perkins.

    2. [S286] "familywest" on ancestry.com, "Ancestors (for my DNA matches)".