Asa Carlos White

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There were 2 Asa Whites in Mount Holly during this time period. The other Asa was a few years older and went by Asa 1st on many of the records. The latter moved to Ludlow, VT which is just east of Mount Holly by 1814. Asa 2 may have joined the Baptist Church, which was organized in 1804 in Mount Holly, as there is a record of an Asa White, along with a John and Francis (his brothers?), buying pews there in 1820, in a History of Mount Holly, VT. Asa 2 is also known as Deacon Asa in some of the records.

He was born shortly before his parents moved to VT. His two brothers and two sisters were born in Hartland, Windsor County, Vt before the family moved to Mount Holly around March 1795.

Asa married Amarilla Peck in abt. 1806 in Vermont U.S.A.. Amarilla (daughter of Elijah Peck and Sarah Bradley) was born on 10 Jan 1784 in Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 08 May 1856 in Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.; was buried in Mechanicsville Old Cemetery, Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Amarilla was the daughter of Elijah Peck and Sarah Bradley. They had moved to Mount Holly from New Haven, CT and Elijah continued his work as a blacksmith. Amarilla's gr, gr, gr-grandfather, Henry Peck, was one of the original settlers of New Haven, CT coming there by June 1639 from England. Many of her other ancestors were also among the earliest settlers of New Haven Colony, also coming from England in the 1630s.

In some histories, Amarilla is listed as being born in Cheshire which is also in New Haven County, CT.

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There was a Dan Peck who was active in the Mount Holly Congregational Church , trying to keep it together after the minister left, until he himself left, about 1851. Dan Peck may have been a relative of Amarilla's. Or they may have been married in the Baptist Church. The records don't say.
No maarrriage record has been found in the Mount Holly records. The date is approximate, based on about a year before the birth of their first child.

possibly married in the Mount Holly Congregational Church or Baptist Church.

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Asa was a soldier in the Rev War and served as a drummer in the Battle of Bunker Hill at age 16. He had been a Minuteman and had previously marched with his unit from Groton, Ma to Cambridge during the Battle of Lexington-Concord on 19 Apr 1775. He also served as a private for several months after Bunker Hill. He served again as a drummer for 4 months in 1778 and then enlisted in the Spring of 1781 for 3 yrs and served until end of the War part of the time as a private and part as a corporal. Asa, Sarah, and Asa, Jr. then moved to Hartland, VT by 1788, where the other 4 children were born. He was probably trying to find a way to provide for his family as the economy was very poor after the war. There was no land to inherit from his father, and he was a 4th son besides. He probably worked in Hartland, Vt (about 50 miles NW of Groton, and along the Conneticut River) until he could save enough money to buy land somewhere. Asa, Sr. bought land in Mount Holly, VT in Nov 1794 and again in Mar 1795. He bought 60 acres each time. The land was in the area west of Mount Holly and near the foothills of the Green Mountains. They had just moved there when he died, leaving Sarah with 5 small children. He may have died in an accident while clearing his new land as happened quite often. It seems unlikely that he would have moved his wife and 5 young children, if he were suffering from an illness that would cause his death in 3 months.
On 3 Jan 1797, Sarah White, widow, was appointed guardian of Asa, John, Sally, Polly, and Francis White, heirs to the estate of Asa White with Jonas Hadley as Executor. The estate was fianlly settled in 1810, with John White as administrator and all but Francis, would have been at least 18, and were able to sign.

Asa married Sarah Moors on 7 Jan 1785 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Timothy Moors and Lydia Nutting) was born on 19 Nov 1759 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 30 Dec 1846 in Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.; was buried in Packer Cemetery, Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A... [Group Sheet]

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Sarah married Jonah Ives in 1797, and had 2 more children. Apparently, none of her children provided for her, after her second husband died, as she was a Town Charge of Mount Holly, VT in the 1830s. She had quit-claimed her dower rights (1/3 of the husband's Estate) to her oldest son by Jonah Ives, after Jonah, Sr died in 1824. She may have also quit-claimed her dowery rights to her children by Asa White earlier. Usually when dower rights were quit-claimed to a child, the child was to provide for the parent for the rest of their life. Apparantly Jonah Ives did not keep his signed contract to do so. He probably moved to the State of NY. She was finally able to claim a pension on Asa White's Revolutionary War service in mid 1846, with three of their children's help, but she died about six month's later at the age of 87.
Sarah's great, great-grandfather on her mother's side was John Nutting, Sr., one of the original settlers of Groton, MA. He was killed by the Indians in 1676, when Groton was burned during King Phillip's War. His house was one of the 4 houses where the settlers could take refuge in case of attack. The Indians burned the whole town, but the women and children managed to escape. Groton wasn't resettled for two years after the attack in 1676. Sarah was the 8th child of 10, all born in Groton. She had 4 older sisters, 2 older brothers, and 2 younger sisters.
Some of her other ancesters were among the earliest settlers of Andover, Cambridge, Watertown and Chelmsford; all in MA.

Buried w/ 2nd husband Jonah Ives, Packer Cemetery, Mount Holly, Rutland County, VT

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They moved to Hartland, VT sometime just after their son Asa was born in March 1786. Their other four chilldren were born in Hartland. They probably went north to Vermont for a better opportunty to obtain land. The economy was in chaos just after the Revolutionary War, and many went north to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Asa's father had already sold all his land, and didn't have any property to leave to any of his sons.

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He was a blacksmith at Mount Holly, VT. Vol I of the Land Records for Mount Holly says that "Elijah Peck of Ashford, County of Windham State of Conneticutt" sold land in Mount Holly on 3 Oct 1801. (Mount Holly was formed from a gore and part of Wallingford and Ludlow in 1792, and earlier records can't be found for Mount Holly.) On 15 Sep 1804, Job Peck (Elijah's oldest son) sold land to Elijah Peck and both were of Mount Holly.

[The land record information was sent by Carroll R. Tarbell, Mount Holly Town Clerk, on 6 Dec 1977 to Dorothea Heid. Mr. Tarbell has written a town history of Mount Holly which Marg McEuen purchased in 1992, shortly after Mr. Tarbell's death.]
One source says he died 19 Feb 1805. This may have meant that he was buried then.

Elijah married Sarah Bradley on 10 Apr 1781 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Jabez Bradley and Esther Beach) was born on 29 Nov 1760 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died in in Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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On 7 Feb 1799, Amarilla's mother, Sarah BRADLEY Peck, bought land in Mount Holly. At that time she was of Hamden, New Haven County, CT.

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maryabbywhite.FTW] Elijah and Sarah had nine children: three boys and six girls. Two of their daughters, Lue and Harriet, also died in 1805, the same year as their parents and are buried with them in the Old Mechanicsville Cemetary.

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Thomas was named as one of the surveyors of highways in the Acton town meeting of 7 Mar 1748. This was shortly after he received some of his father's land, as only landholders could vote and hold office. Thomas obtained a Retailer's licence for 1748-1750 from the Middlesex County, MA Court of Sessions, for Acton. He sold his land in Acton to Daniel Locke of Cambridge for L253 and moved to Groton at the end of 1750 , after his first son, Thomas Jr., was born. On the land records in Middlesex County, Thomas White of Acton is listed as being a cooper. Apparantly Thomas became an innkeeper when he moved to Groton. There are records in the Middlesex Court of Sessions that show Thomas applied for and received a license to be an innkeeper in 1753-1763. The Land Records show him selling land in Groton on 6 Jan 1763 when he sold 100 acres that he owned on the west side of Snake Hill Road to John Frost, Jr. in South Groton, and on 28 Sep 1767 when he sold 107 acres in Groton near the Commons to a merchant from NYC. These records list him as being a cooper again rather than an innkeeper. When Hannah died in May 1780, she is listed as being the wife of Thomas, not his widow, which probably means he was still alive at the time. Exactly when he died remains unknown.
Thomas was born 3 years after his parents moved to Concord. They were living with Elizabeth's widowed Aunt Mercy HETT Butterick. Her husband was William Butterick. The Buttericks had land near the North Bridge on the Concord River, where the first Battle of the Revolutionary War took place between the Minutemen and the British on 19 Apr 1775. The headquarters for the Battlefield National Park is in a later Buttrick home, and Thomas was probably born in a house nearby.
So far no record of where Thomas died and when has been located in the Groton, MA area. There is no record of him in VT where his sons, Asa and Francis, moved by 1790. It is possible that he went to live with one of his daughters and her husband if he outlived his wife, Hannah, who died in 1780. But there is no record of his death or burial in the Westmoreland, NH cemetary records where Ammi and Hannah are buried. Records of his daughter's, Molly's and Mehitable's marriages do not seem to be recorded at Groton, though a Mehitable (Hetty) White married in Westford, MA in 1794. Westford is near Groton. Hannah married John Farnsworth, and they moved to Westmoreland, Cheshire County, NH., as did Hannah's brothers, Thomas Jr, and Ammi. A mention of Thomas being alive in Groton is in a land record where he appeared before a J.P. in Cambridge on 18 Oct 1772 to acknowledge the land deed for the 100 acres that he sold in Groton in 1763. He also sued Nathan Smith of Wesford in April 1780 and the case is in the Superior Court Records that he recovered damages. That is the last record of Thomas White of Groton that has been found so far. There is a Thomas White who married a Mary Buttrick in Concord, MA in 1785; but it has not been determined if this was the same Thomas White as the one from Groton.

Thomas married Hannah Faulkner on 04 Feb 1747/48 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Ammi Ruhamah Faulkner and Hannah Ingalls) was born on 12 Mar 1726/27 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 26 May 1780 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried on 27 May 1780 in Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Hannah's great grandfathers, Edmund Faulkner and Rev Francis Dane were among the earliest settlers of Andover, MA and very prominent citizens there. The latter was Abigail Dane's father. Hannah's grandmother, Abigail was tried and convicted in the Salem Witch Trials and sentenced to death. She would have been hanged with the others, but she was 3 months pregnant with her last child, and the Puritans would not kill an unborn child, no matter what they thought about the mother. So Abigail remained in jail under deplorable conditions along with two of her daughters, Dorothy and Abigail, Jr. John Osgood and Nathaniel Dane posted a bond to bail out the two girls, but Abigail stayed in jail. She was released only after she petitioned Gov Sir William Phipps in Dec 1692 from the jail. She was a woman of high intelligance and was literate and so was able to write her own petition. When she had her baby in Mar 1693, she named him Ammi Ruhamah (meaning "let my people go free" or "mercy for my people" according to some sources). Abigail wasn't pardoned until Jul 1703 by the House of Representatives after she had petitioned Gov. Phipps again.
Ammi Ruhamah married Hannah Ingalls in Andover and they lived there a few years. Hannah was their first born. The family moved to Littleton, MA after about 3 years in Andover. They moved to Acton, MA in a few more years, and Ammi Ruhamah had a mill in the south part of the town. Acton is just of Concord; and was part of Concord until 1735. Hannah's brother, Francis, was a very prominent citizen in Acton and was also a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Four of Hannah's & Thomas' sons: Thomas, Jr.; Ammi; Francis & Asa were Minutemen and marched to the Lexington-Concord area from Groton during the first battle with the British on 19 Apr 1775. Ammi was in Concord and was directly involved in the first battle. Thomas, Jr. also marched from Groton, but was in a different unit than his brothers. Francis and Asa also fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill with their unit from Groton. Other family memebers were in other battles in the Revolution from their frespective areas.

Hannah was the oldest child of Ammi Ruhammah and Hannah Ingalls Faulkner. The family moved to Acton, MA abt 1738, where she married Thomas White, son of Mark and Elizabeth Mousall White. Their first child, Thomas, was born in Acton before they moved to Groton, MA in 1750, where they lived until Hannah's death. Their other children, all born in Groton, were: Hannah, Ammi, Francis, Asa, Molly, Elizabeth, Mehitable, and John. Elizabeth and possibly, John, died young. Ammi, Francis, Asa, and possibly Thomas all were in the Rev. War. Thomas and Hannah had an Inn in SE Groton during the War.
[Find a Grave memorial #80147734]

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Hannah's great grandfather's, Edmund Faulkner and and Francis Dane, who was Abigail Dane's (Hannah's grandmother) father, were among the earliest settlers of Andover, MA which is near Salem. Abigail DANE Faulkner was tried and convicted in the Salem Witch Trial's. She would have been put to death, but was pregnant with Hannah's father, Ammiruhammah, at the time. The Puritans would not put an unborn child to death, so Abigail remained in jail. By the time she had Amniruhamah in Mar. 1693, the witch hysteria had passed. She named him Amniruhamah which is supposed to mean "mercy for my people". Abigail wasn't pardoned until about 7 years later. Amniruhamah married Hannah Ingalls in Andover and Hannah, their first child, was born there. The family moved to Littleton, MA and then to Acton, MA where Amniruhamah had a mill in the south part of the town. Acton is just west of Concord, MA; and was part of Concord until 1735. Hannah's brother, Francis, was a very prominent citizen in Acton and was a Col. in the Revolutionary War. Four of Hannah's & Thomas' sons: Thomas, Ammi, Francis and Asa were Minutemen and marched to the Lexington-Concord area during the first battle with the British on 19 Apr 1775. Francis and Asa also fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Timothy married Lydia Nutting on 26 Apr 1743 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of Jonathan Nutting and Mary Green) was born on 20 Nov 1723 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in Nov 1812 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Timothy and Lydia had 12 children born in Groton. They had nine girls and three boys. One of their daughters, Lydia, died soon after birth and they named another girl, Lydia, two years later. It was quite common to name a child after one who had died.

Amos married Elizabeth Leek on 19 Jan 1740/41 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Leek and Mary Winston) was born in Jan 1718/19 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 24 Apr 1791 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Amos and Elizabeth had twelve children: five sons and seven daughters. One of their daughters, Sarah, died soon and they named another daughter after her the next year. All their other children lived to marry, and most stayed in CT.

Jabez married Esther Beach on 13 Nov 1754 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Moses Beach and Esther Tyler) was born on 16 May 1731 in Connecticut; died on 09 Jan 1794 in Connecticut U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

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Jabez and Esther had nine children, four sons and five daughters.