. Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. : 1638-[1909] .... s at a meeting January 17, 1753, and waschosen one of the officers. He cleared up a few acres, planted anorchard and built a house in the south part of what is now Heath, andwhich is believed to be the house where his son, Dea. James, lived anddied. March 4, 1771, the town of Charlemont voted to accept of theland Col. Jonathan White gave for a burying-place. After he returnedfrom the war he lived most of the time in Leominster, but often passedfrom one town to the other. On one of these jour
. Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. : 1638-[1909] .... s at a meeting January 17, 1753, and waschosen one of the officers. He cleared up a few acres, planted anorchard and built a house in the south part of what is now Heath, andwhich is believed to be the house where his son, Dea. James, lived anddied. March 4, 1771, the town of Charlemont voted to accept of theland Col. Jonathan White gave for a burying-place. After he returnedfrom the war he lived most of the time in Leominster, but often passedfrom one town to the other. On one of these journeys he was detainedover Sunday at Deerfield. He went to meeting in the morning, in hishomespun frock, and, as he passed up the aisle no pew-door was openedto welcome him : so he went to the wood-pile and got a block of wood ;this he laid on the floor near the pulpit, seated himself on it andlistened attentively to the long sermon. At the noon recess the peoplemade his acquaintance, and, finding that his station in life was not sohumble as they had at first supposed, treated him with great o C/5 <V CaS _G aco oU JOHN WHITE. 67 When the afternoon service began many doors were thrown open to re-ceive him but he disregarded all invitations and took his seat of themorning. In their old age, Col. White and his wife lived with their sons inHeath and are buried in the South burying ground among his kindredof later generations. His wife died Nov. 23, 1788 ; he died Dec. 4,of the same year. Children : 548. Jonathan/ bapt. June 10, 1733 ; d. in infancy. 549. Jonathan, b. Apr. 26, 1734 ; d. Dec. 2, 1736. 550. Esther,5 b. June 11, 1736 ; d. Dec. 7, 1738. 551. Esther,5 b. Oct. 15, 1738 ; d. Jan. 5, 1739. 552. Jonathan, -K 553. David,5 +. 554. James, -K 555. Asaph, -K 556. Esther, -f. 557. Abigail,5 +. HANNAH4 (151), b. in Lancaster, Mar. 14, 1710; m. May 15,1729, Joseph Woods of Lancaster, son of Samuel and Alice Woods ofGroton, Mass. The following is a petition made by Hannah
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