White Family Tree - 1898

The White Family Tree

by Mrs. E.S. Whitman

Chenango Union, June 30, 1898

 

The White family dates far back into early English history.  Through a long line of ancestry the names that are given below are representative of a branch of the White family tree, of which these are records.

 

In 1620 William White and wife, a daughter of Governor Edward Winslow, came over in the Mayflower, and while in Cape Cod harbor, before landing, Peregrine White was born.  He married a daughter of William Bassett of Danbury.  Captain Peregrine White died July 20, 1704 in Mansfield.

 

His oldest son, Daniel White, married Hannah Hunt of Danbury in 1673. 

 

John White oldest son of Daniel White, was born in 1675.  He married Sarah Howlands, a descendant of the Howlands of the Mayflower.

 

Ezekiel White, a son of theirs, was born August 11, 1707

 

Douglas White, son of Ezekiel White, was born in 1743, and married Ruth Albee

 

Pelatiah White, second child of Douglas White, was born February 22, 1773, and married Eleanor Aldrich and to them were born ten children, namely:  Ruth Phetteplace, Mason White, Sophia Hoag, Rosina Bancroft, Polly King, Perlinia Fellows, Betsy Coats, Abel D. White, Orwin P. White, Vienna Willcox.

 

Mason White, the second child of Pelatiah White, was born March 28, 1808, and married Sally Phetteplace and to them were born four children, Malvina A. Pendleton, Marilla Smith Whitman, Anson J. White, George M. White, now representing the ninth generation of this branch, and of their children, which represent the tenth generation, Rev. Charles S. Pendleton of Oneonta, son of Malvina Pendleton of Norwich; Mason I. Smith, Coldwater, Mich.; Mrs. Eva A. Tillspaugh, Mrs. Mina W. Barre, Mrs. Libbie B. Stratton, Miss Hattie M. Whitman of Holmesville, George R Whitman, Hodunk, Mich.; children of Marilla Smith Whitman of Holmesville; William White, Edwin White, Holmesville; Charles White of Norwich; Miss Jessie M. White, children of Anson J and Addie French White of Holmesville; Cora White, Mason White, Miss Bessie White, Lewis White, Jay White, children of George M. White and Nancy Hoag White of Holmesville; and there are twelve of the eleven generation children, of the different families above mentioned of this branch of the White family tree.

 

We read in the early history that Peregrine White was very reverential toward the aged, especially his aged mother.  In her declining years he visited her daily. We are hopeful that such traits of character have been handed down to the present generation.