WHITE, Nehemiah

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• Wars: 1776, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Revolutionary War - Thomas Nash's Company, of Colonel Solomon Lovell's Regiment

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Ezekiel White enlisted as a Minuteman and served from Chesterfield at the alarms in the Burgoyne campaign. Was corporal in Capt. Benjamin Bonney's company, Col. Samuel Brewster's regiment, 1777.

Ezekiel married BLANCHARD, Abigail on 18 Apr 1744 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail (daughter of BLANCHARD, Thomas and VINSON, Sarah) was born on 8 Nov 1725 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1761 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blanchard-368

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• Occupation: South Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Deacon of the Congregational Church in South Weymouth
• Occupation: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Shoemaker
• _MILT: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Lietenant

Samuel married PRATT, Anna before 1699 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Anna (daughter of PRATT, Matthew and HUNT, Sarah) was born on 14 Sep 1682 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 Sep 1757 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Both of Anna’s parents had lost their ability to hear and speak as children. History credits them with developing a form of sign language that allowed them to communicate. Cotton Mather wrote about the family and indicated that all heir children, Anna included, learned to speak “sooner with eyes and hands than by their lips.”

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• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blanchard-314

Thomas married VINSON, Sarah on 16 Oct 1717 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of VINSON, Samuel and UNKNOWN, Hannah, daughter of VINSON, John and KINGMAN, Sarah) was born on 9 Jan 1702 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Nov 1792 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vinson-112
• Residence: Between 1750 and 1850, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

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• _MILT: Lietenant and Captain during the French-Indian Wars
• Public Service: 1674, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Admitted as a Freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Wars: Between 1690 and 1691; King William's War
• Wars: Between 1690 and 1691, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; Lieutenant and Captain; Weymouth Company of militia in 1690.Served in the expedition to Canada against the French and Indians.
• Misc: 1703; Value of property at time of death: 955 pounds,10 shillings, and 6 pence

Ebenezer married PHILLIPS, Hannah Jewson on 2 Jun 1671 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah (daughter of PHILLIPS, Deacon Nicholas and JEWSON, Elizabeth) was born on 25 Nov 1654 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 5 Oct 1732 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phillips-212

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• Differentiator: deaf

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Cotton Mather, in Magnalia, Vol 1, Page 495, writes:

"One Matthew Pratt, whose religious parents had well instructed him in his minority, when he was twelve years of age became totally deaf through sickness, and so hath ever since continued. He was taught after this to write, as he had been before to read; and both his reading and his writing he remaineth perfectly, but he has almost forgotten to speak; speaking out imperfectly, and scare intelligible, and very seldom.

He is yet a very judicious Christian, and being admitted into the communion of the church, he was therein for many years behaved himself unto the extreme satisfaction of good people in the neighborhood. Sarah Prat, the wife of this man, is one also who was altogether deprevied of her hearing by sickness when she was about the third year of her age; but having utterly lost her hearing, she has utterly lost her speach also, and no doubt all rememberance of everything that refers to language.

Mr. Thatcher made an essay to teach her the use of letters, but it succeeded not; however, she discourses by signs, whereat some of her friends are so expert as to maintain a conversation with her upon any point whatever, with as much freedom and fullness as if she wanted neither tongue nor ear for conference. Her children do learn her signs from the breast, and speak sooner by her eyes and hands than by their lips. From her infancy she was very sober and modest; but she had no knowledge of a Deity, nor of anything that concerns another life and world. Nevertheless, God, of his infinite mercy, has revealed the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great mysteries of salvation by him, unto her, by a more extraordinary and immediate operation of his own spirit unto her, an account of her experience was written from her, by her husband; and the elders of the church employing her husband, with two of her sisters who are notably skilled in her way of communication, examined her strictly hereabout, and they found that she understood the unity of the divine essence, and trinity of persons in the Godhead; the personal union in our Lord, the mystical union between our Lord and his church; and that she was acquainted with the impressions of grace upon a regenerate soul. She was under great exercise of mind, about her internal and eternal state; she expressed unto her friends her desire for help; and she made use of the Bible, and other good books, and with tears remarked such passages as were suitable to her own condition. Yea, she once, in her exercise wrote with a pin upon a trencher, three times over, "Ah poor soul!" and therewith, before divers person, burst into tears. She was admitted into the church with the general approbation of the faithful,.....and her carriage is that of a grave, gracious, holy woman."

Matthew married HUNT, Sarah on 1 Aug 1661 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of HUNT, Enoch and BARKER, Dorothy) was born on 4 Jul 1640 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Aug 1729 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: deaf

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Cotton Mather, in Magnalia, Vol 1, Page 495, writes:

"One Matthew Pratt, whose religious parents had well instructed him in his minority, when he was twelve years of age became totally deaf through sickness, and so hath ever since continued. He was taught after this to write, as he had been before to read; and both his reading and his writing he remaineth perfectly, but he has almost forgotten to speak; speaking out imperfectly, and scare intelligible, and very seldom.

He is yet a very judicious Christian, and being admitted into the communion of the church, he was therein for many years behaved himself unto the extreme satisfaction of good people in the neighborhood. Sarah Prat, the wife of this man, is one also who was altogether deprevied of her hearing by sickness when she was about the third year of her age; but having utterly lost her hearing, she has utterly lost her speach also, and no doubt all rememberance of everything that refers to language.

Mr. Thatcher made an essay to teach her the use of letters, but it succeeded not; however, she discourses by signs, whereat some of her friends are so expert as to maintain a conversation with her upon any point whatever, with as much freedom and fullness as if she wanted neither tongue nor ear for conference. Her children do learn her signs from the breast, and speak sooner by her eyes and hands than by their lips. From her infancy she was very sober and modest; but she had no knowledge of a Deity, nor of anything that concerns another life and world. Nevertheless, God, of his infinite mercy, has revealed the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great mysteries of salvation by him, unto her, by a more extraordinary and immediate operation of his own spirit unto her, an account of her experience was written from her, by her husband; and the elders of the church employing her husband, with two of her sisters who are notably skilled in her way of communication, examined her strictly hereabout, and they found that she understood the unity of the divine essence, and trinity of persons in the Godhead; the personal union in our Lord, the mystical union between our Lord and his church; and that she was acquainted with the impressions of grace upon a regenerate soul. She was under great exercise of mind, about her internal and eternal state; she expressed unto her friends her desire for help; and she made use of the Bible, and other good books, and with tears remarked such passages as were suitable to her own condition. Yea, she once, in her exercise wrote with a pin upon a trencher, three times over, "Ah poor soul!" and therewith, before divers person, burst into tears. She was admitted into the church with the general approbation of the faithful,.....and her carriage is that of a grave, gracious, holy woman."

John married PHILLIPS, Abigail in Mar 1684 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail (daughter of PHILLIPS, Nicholas and SALTER, Hannah) was born on 20 Feb 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 19 Sep 1724 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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I have surfed & surfed the web trying to find concrete proof to nail down who the parents of Abigail Phillips really were. There is a lot of conflicting info. Some seem to contend that Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth (1611=1672) was the father, and that he may even have married twice. I've seen a death date of 1649 for Elizabeth Jewson. What seems to rule out this Nicholas marrying Hannah Salter (who died in 1696) is that his will does not mention a wife at all. The other issue I had was with Elizabeth being the mother of this Abigail. She would have been at least 48 if not 50 when she gave birth to her. I know it has happened, but really! The attached article seems to shine a light in a different direction. That there were in fact two Nicholas Phillips, one of Weymouth, & the other of Boston, a shopkeeper & victualler. This article states that the Nicholas of Boston was really the father of this Abigail & that he married Salter. Another attached article by a descendant states, "Our grandfather Deacon Nicholas Phillips must be distinguished from Nicholas Phillips of Boston who dies March 15, 1669/70." The two Nicholas theory fits & makes more sense to me so that's what I'm going with...

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• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vinson-106

Samuel married UNKNOWN, Hannah before 1698 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Hannah was born about 1677; died before 7 Nov 1760 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-493596