John White (1757 - 1846)

Born 18 Sep 1757 in Mansfield, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy (Tucker) White — married 19 Apr 1780 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 21 Dec 1846 at age 89 in Nelson, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

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John White is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P318320
Rank: Private

Private John White served with 13th Continental Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Biography

John White was born 18 Sep 1757, in Mansfield, Massachusetts ^[1] and is the son of John and Mary (Grover) White.

As a Revolutionary War patriot, John was a Minute Man from Mansfield that marched from Mansfield in response to the Lexington Alarm at the Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775. On April 23, 1775 he enlisted in Captain Moses Knapp's Company of Colonel Joseph Reed's 13th Continental Regiment of the MA Continental Line as a private. His unit remained in Boston and was stationed on Brookline Heights during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He served in engagements at Long Island, Harlem Heights and White Plains. He was reportedly among the last to escape during the retreat from Long Island.

In June of 1776 a plot against the life of George Washington occurred. The ringleader, Thomas Hickey, was arrested, confessed his crime and was sentenced to be hanged. When Hickey was hung, on June 28, 1776, John White was one of the guard of 52 men, picked from as many different companies, who performed that duty.^[2] He was honorably discharged on account of poor health on December 26, 1776.

He married Lucy Tucker on April 19, 1780^[3] and they moved to Packersfield (later Nelson), NH about 1781.^[4] John and Lucy had three children, John Jr (b. 1782), Lucy (b. 1785) and Isaac (b. 1790). His Find A Grave Memorial has links to those of family members.^[5]

John White died in Nelson on December 21, 1846,

John was buried at Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, New Hampshire.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
2. ↑ Major General Simon Goodwell Griffin. Celebration by the town of Nelson, New Hampshire (originally called "Monadnick no. 6" and incorporated as "Packersfield") of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its first settlement,1767-1917, New York: Evening post job Print. Office, Inc., 1917. Reprint: Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company, 1998, pages 153-157
3. ↑ Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0873757
4. ↑ NSSAR Patriot Biography, P-318320 http://patriot.sar.org/
5. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82238573.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all that have contributed to this profile of John White:

• John W Sigh, Jr for creating this profile and creating the Biography as part of the Profile Improvement Project.