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Captain Nathaniel White (c. 1629–1711), son of John White
Elizaabeth Unknown (c. 1625–1690)
Captain Nathaniel White was born about 1629. He died in August 1711, age 82. He married first Elizabeth Unknown. [muh] He married second Mrs. Martha Mould, the daughter of John and Mary (Jenners) Coit and widow of Hugh Mould. [muh] She died on 14 April 1730, age 86. [muh]
Elizabeth died in 1690, age about 65. [muh]
Nathaniel and Elizabeth are buried by each other in the Riverside Cemetery in Middletown. [muh]
Nathaniel moved to the part of Middletown known as Upper Houses (because it lay above the river) in 1650 or 1651. [muh]
On 6 January 1656 it was voted to lay out a high way through the West Field and Nathaniel was on a committee to do it in 14 days. [muh]
Nathaniel White served almost continously as a representative to the General Court from October 1659 to October 1710. [muh]
On 19 February 1667 it was voted to organize a church in Middletown and Ensign White was chosen to be on a committee to do this. On 30 (1) 1668 Ensign White was admitted a member in full communion. On 18 March 1669 his wife was also admitted. On 16 March the newly admitted deacons desire Ensign White "to join with the pastor in prayor and imposition of hands [on them] on the next Lord's day. [muh]
In 1669 Nathaniel was appointed a magistrate for Middletown; in 1684 he was appointed a magistrage for Middletown, Haddam, and the district of Meriden. [muh]
The names of the propriotors of Middletown, with their estates was taken on 22 March 1670. Living north of the river was Ensign White, with an estate of £159-10. [muh]
On 24 February 1686/7 Lieutenant Nathaniel White ws on a committee to finish the parsonage house. [muh]
In 1695 Joseph Kirby sold land he received from his father John Kirby to Nathaniel who gave it to his son Jacob. [muh]
In 1695 a tract of 500 acres was granted to Nathaniel White. [muh]
In 1721 there was a distribution of meadows and lot number 200 was set off to "old Cap White," who had died in 1711. By his will of August 11, one quarter of his undivided lands were to be for "schools already established." [muh]
Nathaniel "was the most prominent setter of all Middletown." [muh]
Children of Captain Nathaniel and Elizabeth White:
i. Nathaniel White was born on 7 July 1652. [muh] He died on 15 February 1742. [muh] He married Elizabeth Savage. [muh] She died on 30 January 1742. [muh]
Nathaniel moved to his grandfather's estate in Hadley. [muh]
ii. Elizabeth White was born on 7 March 1655. She married Sergeant John Clark.
iii. John White was born on 9 April 1657. [muh] He died in July 1748, age 91. [muh] He married Mary Unknown. [muh]
John settled on his grandfather's estate in Hartford. [muh]
iv. Mary White was born on 7 April 1659. [muh] She married Jacob Cornwall. [muh]
v. Ensign Daniel White was born on 23 February 1662 in Upper Houses. [muh] He died on 18 December 1739. [muh] He married his stepsister Susanna Mould in March 1683. [muh] She was born on 2 April 1663 in New London and died on 7 September 1754. [muh]
Daniel inherited the western part of his father's homestead. [muh]
In the 1714 "grand levy" for the North (Upper) Society in Middletown, Joseph White and his brother Ensign [Daniel] White were each assessed £85-10. [muh]
vi. Jacob White was born on 10 May 1665 in Upper Houses. [muh] He married first Deborah Shepard on 4 February 1692. [muh] She died on 8 February 1721, age 51. He married second Rebecca (Willett) Raney, the widow of Thomas Raney, on 16 December 1729. [muh]
His father gave him land in Upper Houses. [muh]
vii. Joseph White was born on 20 February 1667. [muh] He died on 28 February 1725. [muh] He married his stepsister Mary Mould on 3 April 1693. [muh] Mary was born on 26 July 1665 and died on 11 August 1730. [muh]
Joseph inherited the eastern part of his father's homestead. [muh]
Joseph White and Mrs. Joseph White were original members of the new church in the Upper Society on 5 January 1714/5. [muh]
References:
muh. Charles Collard Adams, Middletown Upper Houses: A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut (New York: Grafton Press, 1908), 7–32, 53, 714–7.
Map from Adams, p. 6. [muh]
Last revised: 11-Oct-2021