Thomas White

1722 - Aft 1780  (> 58 years)

• Name	Thomas White
  Born	21 Apr 1722	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 26 May 1780	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Notes	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.
  Person ID	I5157	Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Mark White,   b. Abt 1689, England ,   d. 05 Oct 1758, Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Mousall,   b. 26 Mar 1693, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 May 1765, Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 72 years)
  Married	13 Nov 1712	Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Notes	It is unclear how Elizabeth met Mark White. There are no records showing that he belonged to any of the White families living in Charlestown during the early 1700s. Perhaps he worked for the Mousall family after he immigrated from Great Britain. The Mousalls had quite a bit of land by this time. Charlestown was the point of entry for many immigrants coming to New England during the great migration of 1635 and after. There were many young men who came to New England to work and establish themselves, when they couldn't get land in England. This was a common practice in the 1600s and 1700s.He may have been a younger son and/or indentured himself to someone in Charleston to earn his passage. No records have been found on any indentureship or on his passage from Great Britain so far. Since the Mousalls were quite well established in Charlestown and Mark White was a poor yeoman, he may have been working for them on their land. The very first mention of Mark White is on their marriage record which is in the Charletown Vital Records.
  Family ID	F1797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Faulkner,   b. 12 Mar 1726/27, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 26 May 1780, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 53 years)  [5]
  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.
  Children	1. Thomas White, Jr.,   b. 09 Mar 1749/50, Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. Cheshire County, New Hampshire   2. Hannah White,   b. 14 Feb 1751/52, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 22 Jul 1827, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire U.S.A.  (Age 75 years)   3. Ammi White,   b. 18 Oct 1754, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 Feb 1820, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire U.S.A.  (Age 65 years)   4. Francis White,   b. 29 Jun 1757, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 14 Aug 1839, Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont U.S.A.  (Age 82 years) + 5. Asa White,   b. 08 Jan 1760, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts U.S.A. ,   d. 20 Jun 1795, Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.  (Age 35 years)   6. Molly White,   b. 31 Jul 1762, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   7. Elizabeth White,   b. 11 Mar 1765, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 25 Mar 1765, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   8. Mehitable White,   b. 19 Jan 1767   9. John White,   b. 11 Aug 1770
  Last Modified	17 May 2012
  Family ID	F1799	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S04380] Concord VR to 1850. [S04614] Genealogy of the White Family, White, Thomas, (1895). [S04513] Middlesex Co. Land Records Vol. 73, p362. [S04374] Charlestown, MA VR to 1850. QUAY 2 [S04333] Vital Records of Acton Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Henry Edwards Scott, Editor, (New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston MA; 1923), page 240.