Family of John WHITE and Mary LEVITT

Husband:	John WHITE (1600-1684)
Wife:	Mary LEVITT (1601-1666)
Marriage	Dec 26, 1622	Messing, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Husband: John WHITE

Wife: Mary LEVITT

Name:	Mary LEVITT
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1601	Messing, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Death	1666 (age 64-65)	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Note on Husband: John WHITE

John White migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640)

John, his wife Mary, and children Nathaniel and Mary immigrated to America on the ship "Lyon", leaving England 22 Jun 1632. Three of John White's sisters came to New England with their husbands - Mary, wife of John Loomis; Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin; and Anne, wife of John. John and his family arrived in New England, September 16, 1632. They settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John was admitted freeman on March 4, 1633. They lived on 30 acres of land on "Cow Yard Row". The library building of Harvard University now stands on this property. He was appointed surveyor of highways, Cambridge on 3 Nov 1634 and one of the first selectmen 3 Feb 1634/1635. With Thomas Hooker in June, 1636, they joined a group of men, women and children that left Cambridge and traveled through wilderness 110 miles to Hartford, Connecticut, with no guide but a compass. Some of the women were carried on litters. They drove 160 head of cattle and carried on their backs their packs, arms and utensils. The journey took nearly a fortnight. John White appears as one of the original proprietors. His lands were a 2 acre homelot, 40 acres of meadow, 32 acres of uplands, 10 acres of swamp, and 150 acres of upland on Hockanum (east of the Great River). In 1642 he was chosen one of the selectmen [or orderers], and again in 1646, 1651, 1656. After Rev Hooker's death in 1647 there were dissentions in the church at Harford between Rev Stone and Elder Goodwin. They were unable to settle their differences and eventually on Apr 18, 1659, 60 persons from Hartford and Wethersfield signed an agreement to remove to Hadley. John White was 5th on that list so was probably one of the leaders of the movement. He was among those selected to go and lay out homelots. He served as selectman in 1662, 1663 and 1665. In 1664 and 1669 he served as Deputy or Representative to the General Court or Legislature of Massachusetts at Boston. John became a selectman in Hartford and Hadley as well as Deputy for Hadley to the Massachusetts Bay General Court, 3 Aug 1664, and 19 May, 1669. He returned to Hartford by 1671 after he was dismissed from the Hadley church. He joined the Second Church at Hartford, where he became elder of the church. In 1676 and '77 he and his eldest son Nathaniel {of Middletown} were members of a council called to try to heal the church difficulties. John is listed on the obelisk erected in 1837 in the Center Church Burial Ground in Hartford as an original founder of the town. In his will, dated 17 December 1683 and proved 6 March 1683/4, "Mr. John White of Hartford" bequeathed to son Nathaniel £30, movables, and part of "my ox pasture"; to son Daniel White £20; to son Jacob White part of "my ox pasture" and moveables; "I empower my executor to give to my daughter Hixton according to his discretion as he shall see her need calls for"; "and whereas formerly I intended to give one parcel of meadow land in great Ponset to Stephen Taylor, yet now being forced to pay a great sum of money for the redemption of his house & home lot, I now see cause to dispose of that land for payment of that debt, and shall leave it to my executor with the advice of the overseers to give either to him or the rest of my daughter Hixton's children as he shall see cause"; to "my grandchild Stephen Taylor" various moveables; to "Sarah White the daughter of my son Nathanaell" £5; to "the Reverend Mr. John Whiting my honored pastor" £5; residue to be divided "among my grandchildren (viz) Jonathan Gilbert son of my daughter Mary, my son Nathaniell's children, my son John's children, my son Daniell's children & my daughter Sarah['s] children, their sons to have as much more as their daughters"; "my wearing apparel be divided amongst my sons"; "my son Nathaniell White" to be sole executor and "my beloved friends Ensign Nathaniell Stanly and Stephen Hosmer" to be overseers The inventory of the estate of Elder John White deceased 23 January 1683[/4]" totalled £190 9s., of which £48 was real estate: "his lots in the west division," £12; "his oxpasture lying on the east side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld," £18; and "his oxpasture lying on the west side of the highway leading to Wathersfeld"

 

John White and Mary Levit had eight children:[1] John White baptized 28 Dec 1623, Messing, Essex, England. No further record. Mary White baptized 16 Jul 1626 at Messing, Essex, England, died 16 Dec 1650; married Jonathan Gilbert. Phillip White baptized 21 Dec 1628; Philip is identified as a daughter in her baptism record, Messing, Essex, England. No further record.[3] Nathaniel White born about 1630, died 27 Aug 1711. He married first Elizabeth Unknown. He married second the widow Martha (Coit) Mould. John (again) White born about 1636, died 15 Apr 1665; married SARAH BUNCE, before 1659 probably at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Daniel White born about 1638, died 27 Jul 1713, married Sarah Crow Sarah White born about 1641, died 10 Aug 1702. She married first Stephen Taylor of Hatfield who was buried on 8 Sep 1655 in Hatfield. She married second Barnabas Hinsdale of Hatfield on 15 Oct 1666. He was slain by the Indians on 18 Sep 1675. She married third Walter Hickson of Hatfield. Jacob White born at Hartford 8 Oct 1645, died before 12 Dec 1701. He married Elizabeth Bunce.

Note on Wife: Mary LEVITT

Mother of John White Jr., Mary (White) Gilbert, Phillip White, Nathaniel White, Daniel White, Sarah (White) Hickson and Jacob White

a son, John WHITE baptized 28 DEC 1623, Messing, Essex, England [no further record] a daughter, Mary WHITE baptized 16 July 1626, Messing, Essex, England a daughter, Philip WHITE baptized 21 Dec 1628, Messing, Essex, England a son, Nathaniel WHITE born about 1629 in England a son, John WHITE, born about 1636 a son, Daniel WHITE born about 1638 a daughter, Sarah WHITE born about 1641 a son, Jacob WHITE born 08 Oct 1645, Hartford, Connecticut

 

Father: William LEVITT "yeoman of Messing, Essex, England", died about 1626[1] Mother: Margaret, died 1633