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?Margaret Denton m. 1739? VA b. 1725? VA d. 1803? ?Claiborne Co. Miss. Terr. |
Capt. Thomas (Jr.) b. Oct 22, 1740 VA d. Jan 3, 1813 Claiborne Co. MS |
Lucy b. 1742 VA d. MS? |
Rachel b. Jun 6, 1745 VA d. 1819? Burke Co. NC |
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Joseph b. 1746? Orange Co. VA d. by Aug 8 1814 Claiborne Co. MS |
Mildred b. 1751? VA d. MS? |
Susannah b. 1753? VA d. Aug 24, 1827 AL |
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Benjamin b. 1756? VA d. Aug 24, 1827 AL |
Agnes b. 1757? VA d. |
Urcilla "Urstly" b. 1762? d. after Dec 1806 ?Jefferson Co. TN |
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Reuben b. 1765? VA d. by 1834? ?Claiborne Co. MS |
Margaret Ann b. 1766? d. |
Thomas D. b. 1768? VA d. aft. 1823? ?Claiborne Co. MS |
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Thomas is sometimes identified as Thomas Lilly White or Thomas White, Sr. |
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Brother James was most likely named for James Taylor (1635-1698), a wealthy and
powerful leader of King and Queen County. Father Thomas owned 200 acres of land adjacent
to Col. James Taylor II (1674-1729), who was "charged with 4,000 acres", in St.
Stephen's Parish, King and Queen County, Virginia in 1704. |
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King and Queen County Virginia was formed in 1691 from New Kent County.
The county was named for King William III and Queen Mary of England.
King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in the US to have
recorded a larger population in the 1790 census than in the 2000 one.
Map of Virginia about 1676
shows the location of New Kent County between the York and James Rivers. |
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Dedication of Memorial Tablet to James Taylor,
Jun 6, 1933 at the King and Queen County courthouse. |
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Son Capt. Thomas White Jr. served in the Revolutionary War from North Carolina. |
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Caroline County VA was formed in 1727 from northern and western parts of
King and Queen, King William and Essex counties.
See present day map
for location of Caroline County, and
present day map
for location of Essex County. |
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Between 1732 and 1745, Caroline County court records show that Thomas White
served on twelve jury panels. |
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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 1766, daughter Rachel married Thomas Parks (1740-1819) in VA and both are said
to be buried in the Jaynes Family Cemetery a couple miles from the village of Table
Rock in Burke Co. NC. |
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Brother James Taylor White and nephews William and Reuben, along with
John Holloway,
and William Loving were members of a SC militia
defeated at Marr's Bluff SC, at the hands of Regulators, on July 25, 1768.
William White is wounded, losing use of his right arm
so that he cannot continue trade as a cooper (barrel maker). Excerpt from the book The South Carolina Regulators by Richard Maxell Brown gives a background and summary of the incident. |
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In 1771, Thomas White and William Loving,
who had recently become the son-in-law of brother James Taylor White, both appear on
the first tax list for Surry Co. NC. Both men registered their stock marks in
Feb 16 of that year in Rowan Co. NC. In 1776, 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. His
brother Gabriel Loving is listed in the 1790 Wilkes Co. Census
Seventh Company with
10 members, including 2 male children under 16, the other children female, listed
next to two Parks households, relatives of Thomas White's son-in-law Thomas Parks. |
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In 1778, there are several land transactions on the middle fork of John's River in
Burke Co. involving Thomas White (Sr.) and Thomas White Jr. |
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On Nov 18, 1778, one Thomas White claimed a 389 acres of land in what was then
in Rowan Co. NC, and became Sullivan Co. TN in 1779. The exact location was described as
"on the west side of Potts Creek" [NC Land Grants, File no. 1829].
On Jul 12, 1780, a John Holloway,
possibly John Holloway born about 1719 and
a John Holloway Jr. obtained two land grant bordering or near this grant. One
of the grants was described as 200 acres in Sullivan County "lying on two entries
made by Nathan Page" and "bounded" by a Thomas White [NC Land Grants, File
nos. 627, 679]. |
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Sullivan Co. was created in 1779 from the far northeast corner of Washington
Co. NC and is now in the state of Tennessee
(see present day map
for location). |
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Son Benjamin married Martha Jobe about 1780 and moved to Giles Co. TN about 1810.
He is the only son that did not move to Natchez District in the 1790's. When
William White died in 1818 in NC, several of his heirs
living in MS and LA transferred their power of attorney to Benjamin. |
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On Jul 11, 1788 the 389 acres of land in what became Sullivan Co. TN in 1779
was granted (almost a decade later) to a Thomas White [NC Land Grants,
File no. 1829]. |
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Son Thomas Jr. married Sarah White, who was a
granddaughter of brother James Taylor White. In the
1790 Burke Co. NC Census for 3rd Company, "White, Thos Jr." is listed as a
head of household of 7 members: 1 male aged 16 and up (son Thomas), 2 males under age 16 (grandsons Nelson, Thomas), 4 white females (wife Sarah White, 3 daughters). Son Reuben White is listed in the same Company, near "White, Thos Jr.", his brother. Reuben is head of a household of 5 members: 1 male aged 16 and up (Reuben), 2 males under age 16, 2 white females (Reuben's wife, 1 daughter). |
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Son Joseph married Phoebe White, daughter of
William White. 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 (sons Joel, Richard), 4 females (wife Phoebe, daughters Phoebe & 2 others), 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. in what used to be the Natchez District, where his estate was administered Aug 8, 1814. |
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In 1792, Thomas received one of the Spanish land grants in the Natchez District in
present-day Claiborne Co. MS and many in the family moved there. |
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The 1792 Census
of the Natchez District was translated from the Spanish handwritten records. In the "Bufalo Creek" subdivision there was a "Lily White" household with 2 whites, no blacks, and no land. This area is now approximately within Wilkinson and Adams Co. MS. In the "Second Y Sandy Creek" subdivision that is now in Adams and Franklin Co. there was a "Mateo White" household with 3 whites, 9 blacks on 2000 arpents of land [approx. 1680 acres]. This was the son of James White, who came to Natchez with his parents in May 1782. |
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By Dec 7, 1797, "Thos. Lilly White" owned land on a branch of Bayou Sarah, 45 mi.
SSE of the Fort of Natchez, when a Spanish grant to John Commack was claimed
adjacent to his and Daniel Clarks [McBee, p. 495]. By 1807 this land was in
Wilkinson Co., formed in 1802 from a part of Adams Co. and a part of West
Feliciana LA, south of the town of Natchez (See
present day map
for location of Wilkinson Co. and
present day map
for location of West Feliciana Parish). Bayou Sara no longer exists because the
Mississippi River now runs through it. |
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A Spanish patent of 500f [arpents] situated on "Bayou Sara" was granted to
"Thomas L. White" on May 20, 1794 and, after his death, granted to the "Legal
representatives of Thomas L. White" according to the Mar 1807
certificate record
(see line for Vol. 4, Page 260) [American State Papers, vol. 1,
register B, p. 894]. |
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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 (son?) 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, an indenture from the Armstrong family to Thomas White was
recorded in the District of Bayou Pierre for 400 acres bordering "Filmer and
Abram Green [sons of Thomas Green Sr.]
on NE ... and 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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On Nov 2, 1801, son Reuben purchased an "improvement 3 miles from Bayou Pierre, 2
miles from Storey's Mill on same creek, for $120" [McBee, pp. 360, 377]. |
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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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According to his will dated Feb 21,
1803, six of his daughters were married; Lucy (John Angle), Mildred (William Hightower),
Susanna (Bartlett Henson), Urcilla [or Urstly in the will] (Capt. John Baker,
1758-1806), and Agnes (Simpson). |
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Son Reuben White is listed as a head of family in the 1810 and 1816 Claiborne Co.
Census. In 1810 Census
page 406, submitted on Dec 10, 1810, Reuben heads a household of 14 members: 1 male aged 26 and under 45 (Reuben b. 1765+) 2 males under age 10, (b. 1800+), 3 males aged 10 and under age 16, (b. 1795+), 1 female under age 10, (b. 1800+), 1 female aged 26 and under 45 (wife), 2 other free persons, and 4 slaves. Reuben is not in the 1834 Claiborne Co. Tax List. But in 1823, he is listed as a household in a List of Births and Deaths in which he reports the birth of a black (left side on line 18). |
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A letter of attorney to son Benjamin White from Joel, Richard and Phoebe White,
three children of son Joseph White and his wife Phoebe White [probably deceased]
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 (27th line from bottom
on left side). Richard, Joel and
Joseph White and the estate of Lott Mason are listed consecutively on page 5
lines 33-36 in the
1823 Claiborne
Co. Tax Roll. A "Lot Mason" is listed with the Whites in the 1818 letter of
attorney [M.L. Vineyard, p. 363]. |
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SOURCES: American State Papers, Documents, ... of the Congress of the Unitied States, ... 1789-1809, vol. 1, Gales and Seaton, Washington DC, 1832, register B, p. 894. Genealogy Trails, Claiborne County 1810 Tax Roll, website, transcribed by Lee Kohler, updated May 8, 2018. Genealogy Trails, Claiborne County 1823 Tax Roll, website, transcribed by Lee Kohler, updated May 9, 2018. Jefferson Co. MS, Deed Records A1 1798-1818, v. 5, 1800. McBee, May Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Book F, p. 495. McBee, Mary Wilson, Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Abstract of Early Records, Greenwood MS, 1953, pp. 260, 360, 377. MSGenWeb, Natchez District Early Pioneers, "WHITE, Thomas", website. Miss. State Archives, "Various Records, 1820-1951", database with images, Family Search website, Oct 3 2019, Claiborne census returns 1823, Jackson MS. North Carolina Land Grants, TN Sullivan Co. File #1829, website. Northern Neck Grants, Virginia State Archives, Book G. Genealogy Trails, 1790 Census, Burke Co. NC, website, transcribed by Linda Natale, 2020. 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. Rowland, Dunbar, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917, Madison WI, pp. 85-89, 1816 Claiborne Co. Census. U. S. Census, Claiborne Co. MS, 1810, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 406. 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. White, Gifford E., James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. Will of Thomas White Sr., Claiborne Co. Will Book A, Feb 21, 1803, probated Oct 6, 1804, Excerpt. |
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