Ammi White

1754 - 1820  (65 years)

• Name	Ammi White
  Born	18 Oct 1754	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Feb 1820	Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire U.S.A.   [2]
  Buried	Pratt Cemetery, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire U.S.A.   [3]
  Notes	[maryabwhiteanc.ged] He and his cousin, John, (a son of Mark White, Jr.) were in the Battle of Lexington/Concord on 19 Apr 1775. They were both in Captain David Brown's Company. Ammi is said to have killed an British soldier with an ax. One story by William Emerson said, "a country youth, on his way to join the provincial forces, was approaching the battle site with hatchet in hand when a dying Redcoat stirred. Frightened, the young man-a twenty-one-year-old Minuteman named Ammi White-struck the soldier with his ax." Another story by Mrs. Peter Barrett, the colonol's daughter-in-law, told a nineteeth-century interviewer that the Redcoat was trying to drown himself in a puddle of water and begging someone to kill him and Young White put the soldier out of his misery. Emerson watched Ammi White and observed that he was bothered by the event through his life. His cousin John was also bothered by the war and nearly turned pacifist after experiencing combat. In later years he often said he had found war, to be "a great calamity" and the life of a soldier uncongenial to his nature, and "though he discharged his musket many times...he hoped he had killed none of the enemy." He became a storekeeper and a Deacon in his church in Concord. (The Minutemen and Their World.) Ammi moved his family to Westmoreland, NH in 1799, where he farmed quietly for the rest of his life. He purchased the estate of Jonas Butterfield, settled in 1796. Nathan Estabrooks of Putney purchased it and in 1800 it was conveyed to Ammi White, a cabinetmaker, from Concord, MA; whose farm consisted of all the lands in the Westmoreland Depot (Forest Hall) area. Charles White acquired his father's homestead by will prior to 1827 and sold it in 1848 to Samuel Dorr.[maryabbywhite.FTW] He and his cousin, John, (a son of Mark White, Jr.) were in the Battle of Lexington/Concord on 19 Apr 1775. They were both in Captain David Brown's Company. Ammi is said to have killed an British soldier with an ax. One story by William Emerson said, "a country youth, on his way to join the provincial forces, was approaching the battle site with hatchet in hand when a dying Redcoat stirred. Frightened, the young man-a twenty-one-year-old Minuteman named Ammi White-struck the soldier with his ax." Another story by Mrs. Peter Barrett, the colonol's daughter-in-law, told a nineteeth-century interviewer that the Redcoat was trying to drown himself in a puddle of water and begging someone to kill him and Young White put the soldier out of his misery. Emerson watched Ammi White and observed that he was bothered by the event through his life. His cousin John was also bothered by the war and nearly turned pacifist after experiencing combat. In later years he often said he had found war, to be "a great calamity" and the life of a soldier uncongenial to his nature, and "though he discharged his musket many times...he hoped he had killed none of the enemy." He became a storekeeper and a Deacon in his church in Concord. (The Minutemen and Their World.) Ammi moved his family to Westmoreland, NH in 1799, where he farmed quietly for the rest of his life. He purchased the estate of Jonas Butterfield, settled in 1796. Nathan Estabrooks of Putney purchased it and in 1800 it was conveyed to Ammi White, a cabinetmaker, from Concord, MA; whose farm consisted of all the lands in the Westmoreland Depot (Forest Hall) area. Charles White acquired his father's homestead by will prior to 1827 and sold it in 1848 to Samuel Dorr.
  Person ID	I5091	Devin Timber
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Thomas White,   b. 21 Apr 1722, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. Aft 26 May 1780, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age > 58 years)
  Mother	Hannah Faulkner,   b. 12 Mar 1726/27, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 26 May 1780, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 53 years)
  Married	04 Feb 1747/48	Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Notes	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.
  Family ID	F1799	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S04459] Groton VR and CR. QUAY 2 [S04608] Westmoreland VR. QUAY 2 [S04573] The Cemetary Records of Westmoreland, NH, Westmoreland, NH Historical Soc., (Westmoreland, NH), p. 113. QUAY 2