FOURTEENTH GENERATION

15512. * William White ^(3846)(3847) died on FEB 21 1621 in Plymouth, MA.⁽³⁸⁴⁸⁾ He is my 11th great grandfather. He was born in England. ⁽³⁸⁴⁹⁾ *Mayflower Families : "prob. b. England;" 11th great grandfather

He arrived on the Mayflower

*Mayflower Families : "Little is know about Pilgrim William White. Governor Bradford says that among the Mayflower passengers were 'Mr. William White and Susanna his wife and one son called Resolved, and one bonr a-shipboard called Peregrine, and two servants named William Holbeck and Edward Thompson.' In 1651 he added that 'Mr. White and his two servants died soon after landing'..."
"William and Susanna White left England with son Resolved. At Cape Cod, on November 11, 1620 according to the old calendar, William was one of the forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. Two or three weeks later son Peregrine was born, the first English birth in Plymouth Colony. Susanna was widowed in Feburary." ...

*E-Mail : "Mary Crapo, the daughter of Peter Crapo and Penelope White, the dauther of Samuel White, the son of Resolved White, the son of William White" ... "Your reference to Peregrine would not be correct since the Crapo line came through Resolved White as stated above. This would be your connection to the Mayflower." He was married to * Susanna. ⁽³⁸⁵⁰⁾

15513. * Susanna ⁽³⁸⁵¹⁾ died between 1654 and 1675.⁽³⁸⁵²⁾ She is my 11th great grandmother. She was born in England. ⁽³⁸⁵³⁾ *Mayflower Families : "prob. b. England;" 11th great grandmother

She arrived on the Mayflower.

*Mayflower Families : ..."Susanna was widowed in Feburary. She became the first colony bride in May, marrying Edward Winslow, a Mayflower passenger who had lost his wife a few weeks before."...
"Interesting though it may be to imagine Susanna sharing those years in London with him, hostess to officials from various governments, no evidence has been found to indicate that she accompanied her husband on any of his trips to England. One of the few extant documents mentioning her by name is a 'Bill of Sale' in which 'Susanna Winslow wife of Mr. Edward Winslow of Marshfield and his Agent in this tyme of his Absence in England' sold for ten years the services of an Indian man. The agrement was dated 12 (11) 1647, that is 22 Jan. 1648 by our calendar."
"Edward spent the last six years of his life in England. His will in 1654 as a resident of London, leaves his land in New England to son Josiah 'hee allowing to my wife a full third parte thereof for her life also.' If Susanna were living in London at that time, it would have been natural to provide for her there as well."
"No further record of Susanna has been found. She must have died before 1675 when her son Josiah Winslow made no proviso for her in his will, although he made bequests to numerous relatives and friends. This surely refutes the claim of some that she died at Marshfield within two weeks of Josiah's death in 1680. It seems strange that this woman who was the wife of one colony governor and the mother of another, first Plymouth Colony bride and mother of the famed Peregrine White, should have left no record of her passing in town, church, court or press."

Her parents are unknown [see p.96] Children were:

7756 i. * Resolved White.
ii. Peregriene White⁽³⁸⁵⁴⁾ was born between DEC 7 1620 and DEC 20 1620 in Mayflower. ⁽³⁸⁵⁵⁾ *Mayflower Families : "b. aboard the 'Mayflower' in Cape Cod Habor at what is now Provincetown" He died 7/20 or 22 /1704 in Marshfield, MA.⁽³⁸⁵⁶⁾ He is my 10th great granduncle. 10th great granduncle

Born on the Mayflower. [the name means "one who journeys to foreign lands").  

*Mayflower Families : "On 16 June 1656 'William Bassett Senior of Duxburrow now liveing Att Bridgewater' gave his Scituate lands to his 'Two sonnes there living viz Peregrine White and Nathaniel Bassett.'
Peregrine moved to Marshfield sometime after 1632 with his mother and stepfather, and apparently resided there all his life except for a brief period around 1656 when the above deed from his father-in-law places him in Scituate.
On 7 June 1636 Peregrine White, then about 16, was one of the 'voluntaries' to join with those of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut to fight the Peguot Indians. On 23 Oct. 1643 when he was 'of Marshfield,' he sold to Mannasses Kempton of Plymouth land at Eel River given him the previous year by his stepfather Edward Winslow, a deed witnessed by his brother Resolved. Peregrine and Resolved both resieved land from the Plymouth Colony Court in Feb. 1664 'Leiftenant Perigrine White' having lot four on 'Pochade Necke near Namassaskett.'
Recognition of Peregrine as the first English child born in New England was given on 11 Oct. 1655 when 'in Respect that hee was the first of the English that was borne in these ptes;... The Court have graunted unto him two hundred Acrees of Land Lying and being att the Path that goes from Bridgewater to the bay adjoyning to the Bay line.'
When his eldest son was to be married, Peregrine not only deeded to 'son Daniel White of Marshfield in consideration of his intended marriage my dwelling, barn, outhouses and lands in Marshfield and a share of the enlargement recently granted, from the day of my decease,' but he also provided for his own wife and daughters: 'except I die before Sarah my wife, she may enjoy the new end of my dwelling...Daniel shall pay to my two daughters Sarah and Mercy White £20 each when they are 18 or marry.' The deed was dated 19 Aug. 1674 and acknowledged the same day.
The next year Josiah Winslow made his will naming his (half) 'Brother Peregrine White' who was to have his Spanish rapier" [a sword with a double-edged blade] "and buff belt with silver clasps.
Peregrine White fought not only the Pequot Indians but also the advances of the church, until at the age of 78 he was admitted to the Marshfield Church: 'Capt. Perigrine White the first born Child of New England born November 1620 was admitted into this Church May 22 1698 In the 78th year of his age. Mat. 20.6.7.'
The Marshfield vital records note the death of 'Capt. Perigrine White' on 'July ye 20:1704" and the 'Boston Newletter' of Monday July 31, 1704 gives the following obituary: 'Marshfield, July, 22 Capt. Peregrine White of this Town, Aged Eighty three years, and Eight Months; died the 20th Instant. He was vigorous and of a comly Aspect to the last; Was the Son of Mr. William White and Susanna his wife; born on board the Mayflower, Capt. Jones Commander, inCape Cod Harbour, November, 1620. Was the First Englishman born in New-England. Altho' he was in the former part of his life extravagant; yet was much Reform'd in his last years; and died hopefully.' The place of his burial and that of most of the 'Mayflower' passengers is unknown."