Edith (Macomber) White (1763)

Born 27 Apr 1763 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Biography

Edith was a Friend (Quaker)

Edith was born 27d 4m 1763 [27 Apr 1763].^[1] She was the daughter of Philip Macomber.^[1]

She married John White, son of John and Mary White, on 4d 12m 1788 [4 Dec 1788].^[2] The following excerpt is from the records of the Nine Partners monthly meeting:^[2]

Nine Partners Fourth day of the Twelvth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty Eight [1788].
Whereas John White son of John White and Mary his wife and Edith Macomber Daughter of Philip Macomber and Susannah his wife both of Nine Partners, Dutchess County … declared their intention of Marriage … at the Nine-Partners … consent of Parents … allowed of by said Meeting … [signed] John White Junr. Edith White …
witnesses …

Hannah Macomber Lydia White Mary Coffin Mary Akin Mary Post Judith Coffin

Elizabeth Barnard Elizabeth Bowne

John White est? Philip Macomber Yarner Macomber Abishai Coffin Barnabas Macomber Tripp Mosher

Residence

• 1850 - Raisin Township, Lenawee, Michigan.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 96.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Nine Partners Digest. 1769 - 1798. A book of testimonies, marriages, births, deaths, removals and the manumission of slaves. Canadian Friends Historical Association. 2015. [https://www.cfha.info/NPdigest1769-98.pdf#page=127 page 127.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8J-5G6 : 22 December 2020), Edith White in household of James Haviland, Raisin Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to The Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1929) Vol. 1, Page 152. Birth record.