Rev John White

1575 - 1648  (~ 73 years)    Has 6 ancestors and 9 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John White
  Prefix	Rev
  Christening	6 Jan 1575	Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jul 1648	Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Burial	24 Jul 1648	Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England
  Siblings	7 Siblings
  + 1. Josias White,   b. Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 1622 ▻ Mary;   Mary;   Mary Ann Barlow,  m. 1595   2. Nathaniell White,   b. Abt 1570, Stanton, St. John, Oxon, England d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Ellen,  m. Abt 1591 + 3. Mary White,   b. 1570, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 17 Oct 1637, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England  (Age 67 years) ▻ Rev. John Terry,  m. 1591 + 4. Rev John White,   c. 6 Jan 1575, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 24 Jul 1648, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England  (Age ~ 73 years) ▻ Ann Burgess,  m. Abt 1596   5. Stephen White,   b. 1578, Stanton, St. John, Oxon, England d. 7 Nov 1629, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England  (Age 51 years) ▻ Mary Whitehouse;   Mary Waterhouse,  m. Abt 1600   6. Elizabeth White,   b. Abt 1581, Stanton, St. John, Hampshire, England d. 29 Mar 1648, Hampshire, England  (Age 67 years) ▻ NN Allen,  m. Abt 1601 ;   Thomas Gardner,  m. 1610   7. Ann White,   b. 1583, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 29 Mar 1648, England  (Age 65 years) ▻ NN Drake,  m. Abt 1600 + 8. Martha White,   b. 1589, Stanton, St. John, Oxon, England d. Aft 29 Mar 1648  (Age 59 years) ▻ NN Moore;   Rev William Cooke,  m. 27 Apr 1597
  Person ID	I277749	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2010

  
  

  Father	John White,   b. 1550, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 30 Sep 1618, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Isabel Bawle,   b. Abt 1552, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England d. 30 Sep 1601, Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	1570	Stanton St. John, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Family ID	F111825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Burgess,   b. 23 Jul 1579, Brook House, Sussex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1596	Oxon, England
  Children	+ 1. NN White   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F111831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2003

  
  

• Notes

  rector of Trinity Church, Dorchester , also known as "Patriarch of Dorchester". In 1587 he entered Winchester School , and then was elected a fellow of New College in 1595. He graduated B.A. on 12 April 1597, M.A. on 16 January 1601. He was appointed rector of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, in 1606, and for the rest of his life was identified with that place. He was a moderate, conforming puritan, concerned with reforming his parish. White himself never sailed to America. About 1623 he interested himself in sending out a colony of Dorset men to settle in Massachusetts , allowing nonconformists to enjoy liberty of conscience . The attempt by the Dorchester Company to plant a colony at Cape Ann with Thomas Gardner (Planter) as Overseer, at what would become Gloucester, Massachusetts , did not prove at first successful; in the previous decade, only about 500 English colonists had established a foothold, and this Company was wound up by 1625. White then recruited emigrants from the western counties of Dorset , Somerset and Devon , who set sail a few years later as a better-supported expedition and organized church aboard the "Mary and John". White made many trips to London from Dorchester, working to obtain a patent in 1628 for lands between the parallel lines three miles south of the Charles River to three miles north of the Merrimack River . He obtained the sponsorship of London merchants for a new colony in the New World. Concerned about conflicting claims to land given to several companies active in the north-east of the New World, the New England Company sought and was granted a Royal Charter on March 4, 1629, becoming the Massachusetts Bay Company . The Massachusetts Company had Richard Saltonstall as a chief shareholder. White was a member of the company, and on 30 Nov. he was nominated one of the committee to value the joint stock. John Endecott was sent out as governor. Francis Higginson and Samuel Skelton were chosen and approved by White as ministers, and sailed for the Dorchester colony on 4 May 1629 in the "George Bonaventura". The charter enabled John Winthrop to hire a fleet of what would eventually comprise eleven ships, later called the Winthrop Fleet , to bring a new wave of emigrants across the Atlantic. John Winthrop sailed in the "Arbella", White holding a service on board before she sailed. The Mary and John was the first, carrying 140 people recruited by White. On June 1630 they landed and founded the settlement of Dorchester, Massachusetts . The eleven ships eventually transported about 700 colonists to the New World,:442. In 1632 and 1636 White was corresponding with John Winthrop (who urged White to visit the colony) about cod-lines and hooks to be sent, as well as flax of a suitable growth for Rhode Island . From 1630 to 1640 ships carried about 10,000 English colonist to the New World in what has been called the Great Migration . Later in the 1630s White was under suspicion for his financial dealings. About 1635 or 1636 White was examined before Sir John Lambe about some papers seized in his study, and relating to a considerable sum of money sent by White to Dr. John Stoughton. This eventually turned out to be in part a legacy from one Philippa Pitt, bequeathed to White for good causes, and in part disbursements for the colonists in New England. White produced particulars of these in his note-books, and after six months' attendance before the court of high commission , he was discharged and the informant against him reprimanded. When the First English Civil War broke out in 1642, Dorchester, England declared itself on the side of Parliament . A party of Prince Rupert 's horse burst into White's house, plundered it, and carried off his books. He took refuge in London at the Savoy Hospital , where he ministered until, after the ejection of Daniel Featley , he was appointed rector of Lambeth on 30 September 1643, and given the use of Featley's library until his own could be recovered. He was chosen one of the Westminster Assembly , and at their opening service in St. Margaret's, Westminster (25 September 1643) prayed a full hour to prepare them for taking the Solemn League and Covenant . He regularly attended the sittings of the assembly, and signed the petition for the right to refuse the sacrament to scandalous persons, presented to the House of Lords, 12 August, was one of the assessors, and in 1645 was chosen on the committee of accommodation. White brought William Benn to Lambeth with him, whom he had called in 1629 to be preacher at All Saints in Dorchester. On the death of Robert Pinck in November 1647, White was designed warden of New College, but he declined to go to Oxford, because of bad health (1648). His death took place on 21 July 1648, and he was buried in the porch of St. Peter's Chapel (belonging to Trinity).