Came on the Ship Mary & John

Certificate of 24 Mar 1633/4 London

 

Landed at Ipswich 1635

 

On 6 May 1635, the General Court ordered the bounds of Ipswich and Quascacunquen* - was allowed to become a plantation and "its name hereafter shall be Newbury, when some of the chief [people] of Ipswich desired leave to remove to Quascacunquen, to being a settlement, which was granted them. Among those who removed to Newbury were Rev. Thomas Parker, Nicholas Noyes, Henry Sewell, William White, William Moody and Richard Kent.

 

In 1640 William White removed to Haverhill, of which he was one of the first settlers, and was one of the grantees of the Indian deed of Haverhill, dated 15 Nov 1682; which instrument was, it is said, both written and witnessed by him. 

 

*Indian name meaning "Waterfall", which referred to the falls on the river, later named Parker River.

 

Will dated 2 Jan 1683

 

m [1] bef 1639 Essex Co., MA 

Mary

 

They had 1 child John White 1639 - 1668