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| Name |
William White |
| Birth |
Abt 1577 |
Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
14 Mar 1621 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
27 Mar 1895 |
SGEOR |
| FamilySearch ID |
D6XT-GJT |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I11530 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Family |
Susanna, b. Abt 1595, Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, England d. 1 Oct 1680, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 85 years) |
| Marriage |
11 Feb 1612 |
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland |
| Children |
| + | 1. Resolved White, b. Abt 1615, England d. 19 Sep 1687, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 72 years) |
| + | 2. Peregrine White, b. Nov 1620, On board the Mayflower, Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts, United States d. 20 Jul 1704, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 83 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3012 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Mayflower - Pilgrim
William White is a difficult individual to research because of the commo n ality of his name. Much has been mispublished about him. There is a mar ri age record in Leiden, Holland, which records the marriage of a Willia m Wh ite to Anna Fuller on 27 January 1612; the marriage was witnessed b y Sara h Priest and Anna's brother Samuel Fuller, all members of the Leid en chur ch congregation. For many years this was thought to have been th e Mayflow er passenger (Susanna and Anna being reasonable variants of th e same name ).
This has been a heavily-debated issue: was this the marriage of the Mayf l ower passenger, or not? There are at least two William Whites living i n L eiden during the appropriate time period, one was a wool comber, an d on e was a tobacco merchant. The William White who married Anna Fulle r was c alled a wool comber in the 1612 marriage record, which was witnes sed by S arah Priest. On 10 April 1621, well after the Mayflower had depa rted, Wil liam White wool comber was a party to the antenumptual agreemen t of Samue l Lee in Leiden. Thus, William White, wool comber, could not h ave been th e Mayflower passenger. And since Sarah Priest had witnessed t he will of W illiam White in 1612, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume i t was the sam e William White who witnessed her own marriage to Godbert G odbertson in L eiden in October 1621? The Mayflower passenger was also no t the tobacco m erchant, who appears in numerous Leiden records throughou t the 1620s. S o there was either a third William White in Leiden, or els e the William W hite of the Mayflower may have joined onto the voyage fro m England.
In any case, William and his wife Susanna came on the Mayflower in 162 0 w ith son Resolved; Susanna gave birth to son Peregrine while the Mayfl owe r was still anchored off the top of Cape Cod waiting for the Pilgrim s t o discover a place to build their colony. William died the first wint er , on the same day as three other passengers, including William Mullins . H is wife Susanna remarried to Edward Winslow a few months later, bein g th e first marriage to occur at Plymouth.
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