John White was highly respectable and influential; most of his children sustained excellent characters, for which they were indebted to the good influence of thei mother as well as their father. He acquired much property in trade and merchandise, and possessed a very extended real estate, sufficient to afford his sons valuable farms in Haverhill and Plaistow. In 1692 Sir William Phipps first Governor of the province, under the new charter, appointed Ensign John white on the board  of town officers. He was Town Clerk in 1694, and was chosen "proprietor's clerk" in 1701. He was Representative of Haverhill in the General Court eight years,-1700-2-3-8-13-15-16-19, Captain of the Haverhill company, and magistrate of the County Court.

Notes taken from "the Desendants of William White. by Hon. Daniel Appleton White. 1863