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Phoebe White m. 1779? Burke Co. NC b. 1756? Culpeper Co. VA d. by Sep 1818? Claiborne Co. Miss. Terr. |
Nancy b. 1782? Burke Co. NC |
Benedict b. by 1785 Burke Co. NC d. by 1823? ?Claiborne Co. MS |
Phoebe b. Feb 12, 1786 Burke Co. NC d. May 8, 1838 ?Claiborne Co. MS |
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Margaret b. 1786? Burke Co. NC |
Richard b. by 1790 Burke Co. NC d. 1823 ?Claiborne Co.MS |
Joel b. 1790? Burke Co. NC d. after 1823 ?Claiborne Co. MS |
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?Joseph (Jr.) b. 1794 Burke Co. NC d. after 1823 ?Claiborne Co. MSMS |
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Part of Orange County became Culpeper County in 1748.
(see present day map
for location), which is bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west and the
Rappahannock River forms one of its eastern boundaries. |
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In 1771, father Thomas White and William Loving,
who had recently become the son-in-law of son James Taylor White, both appear on
the first tax list for Surry County NC Both men registered their stock marks in
February of the same year in Rowan County NC.
In 1776, father Thomas White moved to the Johns River (located in what would becomes Burke
Co. NC), living there for 24 years. William Loving moved to the Yadkin River in what would become Wilkes
Co. NC. |
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| Burke and Wilkes Counties were formed in 1777. Wilkes was formed from Surry County and Burke was formed from Rowan County. Compare Map of North Carolina Counties in 1775, with Map in 1780. | ||||
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In 1778, there are several land transaction on the middle fork of John's River in
Burke Co. involving father Thomas White Sr. and brother Thomas White Jr. |
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Capt. Thomas White Jr. served in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina. He
was commissioned or enlisted Jan 20, 1777 in Thomas Donohoe's Company of the 6th
Regiment, and mustered in 1779 in the 5th Regiment. |
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Joseph married Phoebe White, the daughter of William White,
brother of Joseph's father. In the 1790 Burke Co. NC Census for
5th Company, Joseph White is listed as a head of household of 7 white members: 1 male aged 16 and up (Joseph), 2 males under age 16 (Benedict, Richard), 4 females (wife Phoebe, 3 daughters), and seven slaves. He is listed in the same company as father-in-law William and George Holloway. About 1798, Joseph White and his family moved to Claiborne Co. MS, where his estate was administered Aug 8, 1814. |
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In 1792, father Thomas received one of the Spanish land grants in the Natchez
District in present-day Claiborne Co. MS and the family moved there. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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In 1798, a Thomas White and "Joseph and Reubin White",
brothers, obtained Tennessee passports to travel to the district of Natchez on
the Mississippi River. |
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On Aug 17, 1798, Joseph and others witnessed an indenture from the Armstrong family
to brother Thomas White [Jr.] that was recorded in the
District of Bayou Pierre for 400 acres bordering "Filmer and Abram Green
[sons of Thomas Green Sr.]
on NE ... and on NW by the south fork of Bayou Pierre" and was witnessed by
Ebenezer Smith, Davenport Wiseman and son Joseph White
[Jefferson Co. MS Deed Record]. |
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Bayou Pierre runs through what is now Claiborne Co.
(see present day map),
created in 1802 from Adams Co., Miss. Terr. and including the towns of Port
Gibson and Grand Gulf. It now borders Jefferson Co. (see
present day map
for location). |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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In 1804, Joseph claimed 214 acres of land in Claiborne Co. "on the Main Fork of
Bayou Pierre ... by virtue of the Third Section of the Act of Congress"
[McBee, Natchez Court Records, p. 537]. |
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The 1810 Census of Claiborne Co. MS, includes the following households: Thomas White, Nelson White, Reuben White, Larkin White, and Dempsey White. The Claiborne Co. Tax Roll for the same year has: Thomas White, 1540 acres in Bayou Pierre & Port Gibson, from a "Spanish & Donation" claim, having 21 slaves. Reuben White (brother), 100 acres in W. Bayou Pierre, from a preemption claim, no slaves. Dempsey White, 640 acres in W. Bayou Pierre, from a Donation claim (military), no whites or slaves. "Devenport" Wiseman [married to daughter Sophia], 352 acres in Big Sandy Creek, from a preemption claim, and 1 slave. |
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Daughter Phoebe White married Ralph Regan Jr. in 1808 and they are both buried in the
Regan Cemetery in Reganton, Claiborne Co. MS.
Photo of her grave marker. |
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Brother Capt. Thomas White Jr. died Jan 3, 1813, and
is buried in the White Family Cemetery which is in Claiborne Co. MS about
4 miles south of Port Gibson. |
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After Joseph died, widow Phoebe White married Joseph Powell on Dec 24, 1816 in
Claiborne Co. She may have then married Henry M. White on May 22, 1821
in Claiborne Co. MS. |
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A letter of attorney to brother Benjamin White from Joel, Richard and Phoebe White,
three children of Joseph and Phoebe White,
as the heirs of William White was dated Sep 5 1818 in
Claiborne Co. MS and recorded received by the Burke Co. NC Court in Oct 1818.
Richard White is listed in 1823 as a Claiborne Co. household in a
List of Births
and Deaths in which he reports the death of two blacks. |
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In 1820, "Joel White" is listed in the Caliborne Co. MS Census,
page 14,
submitted in Aug 1820. He is a single male aged 26 to 45 with 3 slaves. |
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A Richard White [son?] married Martha White on Mar 21, 1821 in Claiborne Co. MS. |
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In 1823, the son-in-law Ralph Regan and daughter Sophia Wiseman of brother Thomas
Jr., and Joseph's son Richard White all reported slave births and deaths on consecutive
entries on Page 4 of
Claiborne Co. List of Births and Deaths for 1823. |
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In the 1823
Tax Rolls for Claiborne Co. MS there are assessment records
(levied on polls or persons, and slaves) for Joseph and his sons, Sarah White [sister-in-law],
nephews Thompson, Nelson and Larken (estate), Reuben [uncle?], and possible brothers of
wife Phoebe (sons of William White), and William White Jr. |
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In the
Claiborne Co. Tax Roll for 1823 three of Joseph's sons are listed together
on page 5 as follows: Richard White, owning 320 acres in Big Black, with one poll (white person) and 5 slaves, Joel White, with one poll and no slaves, and Joseph Jr. with one pol and 2 slaves. |
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Nephew Thompson married Susan Herring Jan 13, 1822 and on Apr 11, 1838 married
Susanna Graddick (1803-1847). Thompson and Susanna are buried in White Cemetery in
Claiborne Co. MS. Photo of his
grave marker. |
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Uncle William White died in Jul 1818 in Burke Co. NC
as the patriarch of the White family in NC. His obituary described him as a man
of "almost unrivalled memory and integrity". From the Burke Co., N.C. Court Minutes,
"William White, decsd. July 1818, July 1820 Will pr. by oath of Robt. M. Murrell." William Davenport was appointed Executor. On Sep 5, 1818, William's daughter Cary Milburn in Louisiana transfered her power of attorney to Joseph's brother Benjamin White, which was given to William Davenport in NC on Oct 26, 1818. The same day, Phoebe White, Joel White, Richard White, children of Joseph and Phoebe, and others sent a Letter of Attorney to Benjamin White recorded rewceived in Burke Co. NC. On Sep 7, 1818, Sarah White [sister-in-law] and a Samuel White in Mississippi transferred their power of attorney to the same Benjamin White in NC, which was recorded as received in NC Oct 26, 1818 [Gifford White, p. 74]. |
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Sons Richard, Joel and Joseph White (Jr.) and the estate of "Lott Mason" are listed
consecutively on page 5 lines 33-36 in the
1823 Claiborne Co. Tax Roll. Richard White had 320 acres in the Big Black area
with one poll and 5 slaves, and the estate of "Lott Mason" had 160 acres in Big Black
with no polls and 2 slaves.
A "Lot Mason" is listed with the Whites in the 1818 letter of attorney to Benjamin
White [M.L. Vineyard, p. 363]. |
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SOURCES: DAR record, No. A124318. Northern Neck Grants, Virginia State Archives, Book G. Genealogy Trails, 1790 Census, Burke Co. NC, website, transcribed by Linda Natale, 2020. Genealogy Trails, Claiborne County 1810 Tax Rolls, website, transcribed by Lee Kohler, updated May 8, 2018. Genealogy Trails, Claiborne County 1823 Tax Rolls, website, transcribed by Lee Kohler, updated May 9, 2018. Jefferson Co. MS, Deed Records A1 1798-1818, v. 5, 1800. MSGHN, "Claiborne County, Miss. Marriages", website. McBee, Mary Wilson, Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Abstract of Early Records, Greenwood MS, 1953. Poe, Allan, letter in "The Records, from Virginia to Old Burke Co. N.C.", publ. in Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2 by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC, 1997, p. 256. Vineyard, Maribeth Lang, & Wiseman, Eugene M., Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2, Franklin NC, 1997, pp. 77-90. Virginia Land Patents, Book 8, p. 16. Thomas, Abishai et al., "Roster of the North Carolina troops in the Continental Army", copy of a register taken from original muster and pay rolls 1791, Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 16, pp. 1002-1197. on Univ. of NC website. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. |
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