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1735, Dec. 18. They were witnesses of the marriage of his nephew, Thomas White, "weaver," to Elizabeth Lippincott.
1741, July 8. Abraham White was one of the witnesses to the will of Preserve Lippincott, and owned lands adjoining his.
Reference to them and their descendants can be found in Cooley's Early Settlers in Trenton.
Issue
18 John White married, first, Catharine Olden; second, by license dated Oct. II, 1782, Mary Smith.
13 STANLEY WHITE, son of Robert White, 2. But very little evidence is afforded for the existence of Stanley White and his place here in this pedigree. His name alone is sufficient to show his parentage. And his signature has been found upon receipts in the possession of the late James Steen, Esq., of Eatontown, N. J., of about 1730, one being for the year 1731, whereon the name of Daniel Lippincott also appears, who was, I surmise, his brother-in-law. It was the mother of this Daniel Lippincott who refers to her grandchildren in her will as Vincent and George White.
1745, 9mo., 12. Will of Elizabeth Brinley; proved June 7, 1748. She signed it by her mark, and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Allen) Williams, and widow of Preserve Lippincott, marrying as his second wife, Sep. 19, 1739, William Brinley. In this will she refers to:
my grandsons, Vincent and George White, as not yet twenty-one years of age, and left to them all money due me from Thomas Holmes on his bond, and also the interest of the same. If they both died the above legacy was to go to the children of my son, Daniel Lippincott; Vincent White was to have a chest marked "V.W."; to grand-daughters, Elisabth. Audrea and Anne Lippincott, the clothes. that I had before I married William Brinley. While Elizabeth was to have my Great Bible, Audrea was to get the sheets marked "E.A.L." Executors: Cousins, Joseph Corlies and Hezb. Williams. Witnesses: John Webley, Stephen Wardell, Sarah Williams.
Issue
19 Vincent White married, first, Grace Jeffrey; second, Rachel Green.
20 George White
21 Peter White, probably; married, by license dated Jan. 22, 1747, Huldah Tabor.
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15 THOMAS WHITE, son of Robert White, 10. He married, 10 month 18, 1735, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (White), 28, Lippincott, when his father and brother, each of the name of Robert, sign as witnesses in the most prominent positions. She was born May 3, 1717.
The will of Thomas White is referred to in a deed on record at Freehold, in Book W, page 22, dated July 22, 1813, but although an extended search has been made for the same no trace of it could be found. It may be that it was to this Thomas White refer- ence was made in the settling of the account of "Thomas White, executor of Thomas White, deceased." January Term of Orphans Court, 1791.
He is the Thomas White, "weaver," spoken of in the will of Thomas White, of Deal, No. 24; and is called "Thomas White, of Shark River, deceased" in a deed given by James Talman, Jr., and Charity, his wife, April 7, 1798.
Issue
22 Thomas White
23 William White married, by license dated Feb. 18, 1766, Sarah Lippitt.
24 Elizabeth White
16 FRANCIS WHITE, son of Robert White, 10, died Dec. 28, 1792; married, by license dated Nov. 11, 1749, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Grace Lippincott, born Sep. 28, 1730; died Nov. 5, 1815; Robert White, "cooper," being the surety on their bond.
An old Bible, in the possession of the late Timothy M. White, of Little Silver, N. J., gave the entries which are appended herewith, and would seem to indicate that Francis and Elizabeth (Lippincott) White left no issue, as no mention of any is made in it.
Elizabeth Lippincott, daughter of Daniel and Grace, born Sep. 28, 1730.
Preserve, their son, born May 8, 1732.
Audria, their daughter, born Nov. 16, 1734.
Francis White, son of Robert, died Dec. 28, 1792.
Elizabeth, his wife, {died] Nov. 5, 1815, aged 85 years, & 38 days.
Timothy M. White married, Aug. 2, 1807, Elizabeth King.
William K. White, their son, born Aug. 15, 1808; died, Dec. 20, 1838, aged 30, 4, 5.
Lewis White born July 7, 181I
Elcy White born Oct. 25, 1813; died, June 10, 1814, aged 7mos. 15 days.
Elcy White born Apr. 15, 1815
Elizabeth White born Aug. 1, 1817
Jemima White born Mch. 2, 1820
Timothy White born Oct. 7, 1821
Daniel Hulett born Apr. 30, 1756* Michel Hulett born Oct. 3, 1759
Joseph, son of Michael White, born Nov. 5, 1764.
Mary Hart, wife of Joseph, born Oct. 13, 1771.
Joseph White and Mary Hart married June 18, 1788
Timothy, their son, born Mch. 28, 1789.
Elizabeth White born Sep. 9, 1793
Lewis R. White born Feb. 10, 1800
Mary White born Apr. 6, 1815
Joseph White died Mch. 12, 1838 Elizabeth White, wife of Timothy, died Mch. 19, 1845.
Timothy White died, Sep. 6, 1860, aged 71 yrs. 6 mos. 9 days.
*Thomas Hulett married, by license dated Dec. 23, 1755, Ann, daughter of Daniel and Grace Lippincott, and sister to Eliza- beth (Lippincott) White; and Daniel and Michel Hulett were their sons.
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17 MICHAEL WHITE, probably the son of Robert White, Io, for in no other way can I account for the Bible whose records are given under the heading of Francis White, No. 14, being in the possession of his grandson, Timothy M. White. Married, by license dated Apr. 19, 1758, Margaret Van Dyke, when each was of Shrewsbury.
1784, Jan. 30. Letters of administration granted to Margaret White on the estate of Michael White, late of Monmouth Co.
Issue
25 Joseph M. White born Nov. 5, 1764; died Mch. 12, 1838; married, June 18, 1788, Mary Hart.
26 Britton M. White born 1767; died Dec. 5, 1855; married Abigail Woolley.
. 18 JOHN WHITE, son of Abraham White, 12. He was of Lawrenceville, N. J., and married, first, Catharine, daughter of James Olden, of Stony Brook; second, by license dated Oct. 11, 1782, Mary, daughter of John and Hannah Smith.
Issue by first wife
27 Job White died unmarried
28 Nancy White died unmarried
29 James White born 1778; died 1851; married Martha, daughter of Philip and Charity (Green) Hendrickson, born 1771; died 1848.
Issue by second wife
30 Catharine White married Giles W. Olden, and had
Issue John Olden James Olden Samuel Olden
31 Benjamin C. White married Ann Paxson
32 Jonathan White died unmarried
19 VINCENT WHITE, grandson of Elizabeth (Williams-Lippincott) Brinley, and probable son of Stanley White, 13; died 1775; married, first, by license dated Apr. 14, 1755, Grace Jeffrey, when John Mount was surety on the bond, and Deborah Standley was witness to it; married, second, by license dated Apr. 4, 1759, Rachel, daughter of Henry Green.
1772, 4mo. (Apr.) 2. Will of Vincent White, of Shrewsbury; proved Feb. 9, 1775; mentions:
wife, Rachel; son, Henry, not yet twenty-one years of age, to have Tan Yard and Shop; daughters, Hannah, Rebecca and Elizabeth, not yet eighteen; an unborn child, if a son was to share equally with Henry. Executors: John Tucker and Henry Green.
1787. July Term of Orphans Court. William Brinley and wife, the wife being a legatee under the will of Vincent White, procure a citation against John Tucker, the surviving executor of Vincent White, deceased.
Issue
33 Henry White; letters of administration granted, Jan. 21, 1782, to James Green on the estate of Henry White, late of Monmouth Co.
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34 Rebecca White married William, son of William Brinley; he married, second, Mch. 9, 1798, Rachel Chamberlain; and died 1839/40. She had
Issue
Henry Brinley married, Feb. 16, 1814, Mary Robbins.
Sylvester Brinley born Jan. 25, 1793; died Sep. 20, 1840; married, Feb. 11, 1819, Hannah Britton, born May 23, 1790; died Apr. II, 1843-
Vincent Brinley married, Jan. 15, 1824, Sarah Ann, daughter of Asher Smith; died 1867.
Euphaime Brinley married, Jan. 29, 1818, Sidney Tallman.
Lydia Brinley born June 14, 1790; died Jan. 23, 1852; married,
Dec. 20, 1810, John, son of Henry and Elizabeth (White) Wol- cott, born Nov. 11, 1798; died Nov. 26, 1856.
35 Elizabeth White married, Nov. 20, 1796, Colonel George, son of William Brinley, and had
Issue Rebecca Brinley married Mr. Brown
36 Hannah White
37 Vincent White died prior to Mch. 21, 1832, when his heirs are spoken of as bounding land that was conveyed in Freehold Deeds, "Z-2," page 447.
20 GEORGE WHITE, grandson of Elizabeth (Williams-Lippincott) Brinley, and probable son of Stanley White, 13.
It would seem as though it were this George White who was purchaser of an acre of woodland from Thomas Little and Elihu Chadwick, executors of George Smith, Nov. 12, 1800. This same parcel was sold by Deborah and Elizabeth White to Richard S. Poole, Jan. 25, 1833. And Jan. 11, 1839, Deborah White, of Shrewsbury, conveys to Gabriel West all her right in the lot of land "conveyed to my father, George White, by Jacob Brinley and his wife Jane, May 3, 1791."
21 PETER WHITE, in all probability the son of Stanley White, 13, married, by license dated Jan. 22, 1747, Huldah, daughter of Philip Tabor. One of her Canadian descendants said she was living in Monmouth Co., in 1811.
Issue
38 Benjamin White born Dec. 20, 1749; died Dec. 23, 1842; married, Mch. 16, 1775, Amah Ball.
39 Philip White died Mch. 30, 1782; married, first, . ; second, Oct. 29, 1773, Jane Miers.
40 William White born Oct. 28, 1759; died Dec. 6, 1857; married, June 7, 1779, Deborah Tilton.
4I John White died prior to May 1, 1822; married Margaret, daughter of Jasher Cook.
42 Susan White married Slocum, son of Isaac and Meribah (Slocum) Van Dyke. 43 Vincent White married Susan Carle
23 WILLIAM WHITE, son of Thomas White, 15; married, by license dated Feb. 18, 1766, Sarah, daughter of John Lippitt, born July 11, 1745; died Sep. 16, 1836.
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1786, Feb. 8. Catharine Goodenough, William White and Sarah, his wife, and Ruloff Schenck and Rebecca, his wife, quit claim land of which John Lippet died seized, adjoining the road from Middletown to Shrewsbury Falls.
1812, July 23. William White, of Shrewsbury, and Sarah, his wife, convey to Garret White, their son, land where Garret now dwells, it having been deeded, by Wil- liam Brinley, to "Thomas White, the deceased father of the said William White, . and was left by the last will and testament of the said Thomas White, to be divided between his two sons, the said William and Thomas, and was by release divided by the said brothers."
Issue
44 John Lippitt White born at Ocean Beach, N. J .; died June, 1831; married, first, Jedidah . .... ; second, Eleanor Rierson.
45 Garret White born prior to 1772; married, first, Catherine Coleman; second, Rebecca Lippincott.
46 Hendrick H. White born Dec. 23, 1783; died Mch. 22, 1862; married, Jan. 16, 1812, Hannah De Voe.
47 Rebecca White* born July 23, 1780; died Oct. 28, 1849; married Jeremiah Newman.
48 Ann White* born Apr. 26, 1782; died Feb. 22, 1861; married Joel, 130, son of Amos and Lucy (Tallman) White born Sep. 3, 1780; died Oct. 9, 1836.
49 Sarah White* married Daniel, son of John White (112). See No. 225.
25 JOSEPH M. WHITE, "carpenter," of Shrewsbury, son of Michael White, 17, born Nov. 5, 1764; died Mch. 12, 1838; married, June 18, 1788, Mary Hart, born Oct. 13, 1771; died Feb. 20, 1858. She lies buried in the Methodist yard, at Little Silver.
Issue 50 Timothy M. White, born Mch. 28, 1789; died Sep. 6, 1860; married, first, Elizabeth King; second, Mrs. Catharine Hulett.
51 Elizabeth White born Sep. 9, 1793; died 1876; married, June 9, 1813, Ben- jamin King, born May 18, 1788; died May 23, 1842; and had Issue John King born Mch. 21, 1814; died July 1, 1898; married, 1836, Margaret Borden, born March 1818; died Nov. 12, 1906.
Deborah R. King born Apr. 21, 1816; died Dec. 9, 1875; married Josiah, son of Michael and Ann (Woolley) Parker, born June I, 1812; died Aug. 14, 1866.
Joseph White King born Jan. 11, 1819; married, Dec. 3, 1840, Ann M., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Chandler) Worthley, born July 24, 1820; died Oct. 3, 1893.
Mary Alice King born June 27, 1827; married, 1847, Thomas Taylor Rogers, born August 1825; died Nov. 15, 1903.
Hannah Maria King born Mch. 17, 1822; died Sep. 1, 1824. Robert H. King born Dec. 28, 1824; died Sep. 1, 1826. Barzillai King born Feb. 20, 1830; died Apr. 12, 1838.
*I am not at all sure that 47, 48 and 49 were daughters of William White. Three different ones of the grandchildren of Garret White state that Sarah was his sister. Others claim that Sarah and Ann were sisters. And direct descendants of Rebecca Newman and of Hendrick H. White are sure that Ann and Rebecca were sisters of Hendrick and John Lippit White.
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52 Lewis R. White born Feb. 10, 1800; died about 1817.
53 Mary White born Apr. 6, 1815; married Joseph J. Goodenough, born Apr. 16, 1810; died Aug. 1, 1864; and had
Issue Earl Goodenough
Henry Goodenough, born Sep. 27, 1837; died, Mch. 1, 1867, un- married. Charles Goodenough
26 BRITTON M. WHITE, son of Michael White, 17, born 1767; died Dec. 5, 1855; married Abigail, daughter of Jedediah and Mary (Remington) Woolley, born May 12, 1773; alive Sep. 12, 1840.
He was of Ocean township, and lies buried at Hamilton, N. J.
Issue
54 George W. White born Jan. 10, 1794; died Aug. 8, 1877; married, Dec. 3, 1817, Deborah Jones.
55 Tucker White born Mch. 16, 1804; died May 23, 1875; married, Aug. 24, 1826, Mary Jones.
56 Jediah White born May 20, 1805; died Apr. 5, 1857; married, July (21?) 1826, Sarah H. Youmans.
57 Britton White born Jan. 16, 1807; died Apr. 5, 1885; married Caroline Elmore, born 1824.
58 Drummond White born Aug. 3, 1811; died May 17, 1872; married, Oct. 17, 1829, Rebecca Slocum.
59 Meribah White married, Mch. 15, 1821, Jesse Howland, and had
Issue
Hartshorne Howland Zenas Howland
James Howland
Matthias Howland Deborah Howland
60 Elizabeth White married Samuel T., son of Garret White, No. 45.
61 Deborah Ann White married Mr. West
62 Abigail Ann White married, Jan. 9, 1830, Bartholomew West, and had Issue Henry West
38 BENJAMIN WHITE, son of Peter White, 21, born Dec. 20, 1749; died Dec. 23, 1842; married, Mch. 16, 1775, Amah, daughter of David and Sarah (Badcock) Ball ;* died Apr. 21, 1816.
He was a cordwainer, and removed to Acushnet, Mass., where, amongst a lot of old papers that came into the possession of his great-grandson, Alden White, there were
*David Ball, "weaver," and Sarah Badcock were married Nov. 8, 1753. She was the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Waste) Badcock, published Aug. 23, 1729. And George was the son of Return Badcock, one of the Proprietors of Dartmouth, Mass.
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found the following notes, letters and parts of letters that have aided considerably in completing this line.
1766, Mch. 18. "This indenture witnesseth that Benjamin White son of Peter White and Hulder White of ye Township of Shrewsbury-hath putt Himself an apprentice to John Craddock of ye same place & township aforesaid and with him to Dwell & to learn ye artt and Mistery of ye trade he now followeth that is that Cordwainer or Shoemaker & Tanner and with him to serve from ye date Hereof of the full term of Three years Ten months" etc., etc.
1770, Oct. 20. This is the date of the earliest of the accounts found of Benjamin White, as shoemaker, being a single entry against John Tobey. There are several for the year 1771, and more for later years.
"Shrewsbury July the 7 day 1773. Received of Mr. Benjamin White one Pound Sixteen Shillings and nine Pence new york Currency on accounts Received
in Part of his account By me
(Signed) EBENEZER WARDELL." £1-16-9.
"Shrewsbury October 30th 1773.
Received of Mr. Benjamin White By the hand of David hance Constable five Pound. in full of all accounts to this Day.
Received By me as Witness my hand
(Signed) EBENEZER WARDELL." £5-0-0.
"Mr. Benjamin White Sargent you are Desired to Warn your Destrect Both Train Band and Alarm List to Appear at Amos Simmons on Monday May the Eighteenth Day with a fire arm for to chuse a capt and other officers you must worn them imediately for they aught to have ten Days worning orders from Capt Keen
(Signed) REUBEN MASON."
The following letter from his brother William White, has written upon it's back the words "Dartmouth," and "Sukey."
St Johns, Parr Town September 15th 1784
Dear brother.
I have the pleasure to inform you that I am well hoping these few Lines may find you in the same I am am settled at Parr Town St Johns and like the place amazing well. That there is plenty of evry thing here and Cheap would be happy in receiving a letter from you to know how you are Situated as I have not received any from you since my arrival here. I have one boy living who is named after our brother Philip. desire to be remembered to all friends and relatives I am your
loving Brother (Signed) WILLM. WHITE.
This portion of a letter was, no doubt written by his mother Huldah (Tabor) White, and may possibly have been enclosed with the one which follows it:
"July ye 14 1791
Dear son I rite having this oppertunity to Let you no that I am in as good helth as can be expected for so old a woman as I am I had a hard Spell of sickness Last Spring but I Lived threw it and I thank God for his merciful goodness . . ... Ime wonce more . .
On the outside of the following letter we find the signature of "Benjamin White" himself and the address:
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Mr Benjemin White Dartmouth near Long plain
July ye 15 1791 Loving brother
having this oppertunity to Inform you that I and my family is all well at present I thank god for it hoping you are all in the same I intended to come and see you Last fall but I under tuk a grat Jurney I went the first of June and got back in September I traveled eleven hundred miles from hom I was a mong nine nashons of Ingins I was whare thay kild pepel and eat them you must think that was Sharp times I wish you wold cum and se me and I could tell you more than ever you see in your life I hope I shal cum and se you in a year or two if nothing hapens You must send me a Letter by the first oppertunity we all remembers our Cind Love to you and your wife and Children So no more at present but I remain your Loving brother tel Death
(Signed) JOHN WHITE.
1792, June 4. This date, on the lower half of a sheet of note paper, seemingly indi- cates that the letter written upon it, and of which it was part, was received prior thereto. It reads:
"Leave me now I send my kind Love to Amay and all the Chilrden my Love and well wishes to all friends and a quaintences so no more at present but this comes from your Loveing sister till Death (Signed) SUKEY WHITE.
I hope to come to see you this fall or Next if nothing happens"
One other letter was found, given below, addressed on the outside:
To Benjamin White at Newbedford near the Long plains in th sate of Masechusits
favrd By Mr allin
Long Branch Shrewsbury November 17th 1820
Dear brother i have the pleasure To inform you that through boundless Merceys i Do with my famely and friends in general Enjoy good health. and most cheerfully hope these lines may find you in pos- session of the same Sister Susan and famely is in health Except her son John and is on the Recover- My son Ben Jamin is Marryed and Lives with me &c-Dear Brother Concerning the Rails you offered me if you still think well of it and write to me when the Rails will Be Ready at the Landing i shall have a Certainty to depend on Because i must hire a Vessell in the Spring as Early as the Season will admit if i Can Depend on them for a Certainty i Donot think i Can get a Vessell under fifty or sixty Dollors you will therefore Be pleased-To write this fall that i may know without fail. and how you and your is of which i Shall Extreemly glad To hear these from your Brother and friend
(Signed) JOHN WHITE
To Benjamin White
N B Joseph west is yet living and in good health his sons and family are well-the crops of grain has Been the greatest this season we have Ever had both Rie and Corn it has been Selling out of the field for two and sixpence pr bushel this fall Vegitables is plenty and Cheap But money is Scarce
Issue 63 Asher White born June 28, 1775; died, January, 1796, unmarried.
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64 Huldah White born Aug. 20, 1777; died May 19, 1869; married September 1801, Seth Bumpus; and had
Issue Nelson Bumpus married . . .
65 Mary White born July 6, 1781; died Jan. 26, 1857; married Samuel T., son of James Ball; and had
Issue
Amah W. Ball born 1813; died 1893; married Joseph Bennett, born 1 803; died 1850.
Alden W. Ball born 1816; died 1905; married Elizabeth Rogers, born 182 -; died 1893.
Susan Ball married Torrey Wallace Mary Ball died young
66 Philip White born Sep. 23, 1783; died November, 1836; married, Jan. 25, 1807, Patience Russell, born 1782; died Aug. 24, 1816.
67 Susannah White born Nov. 21, 1786; died January 1788.
68 Sarah White born Oct. 5, 1789; died Dec. 12, 1853; married Maltiah H. Pierce, born Oct. 7, 1792; and had
Issue
Philip R. W. Pierce born 1815; married a daughter of Thomas Pierce.
Benjamin Pierce born 1818; married Mary A. Vail.
Judith Pierce born 1820; married John D. Hathaway, of New Bedford, Mass., no issue.
Huldah Pierce died young
Laura A. Pierce born May 26, 1826; married Isaac Freeman, of New Bedford; no issue.
Sarah J. Pierce born 1828; married Charles Kimball.
John M. Pierce born 1830; drowned.
Samuel T. Pierce born 1833; married Hannah Me. , of Bangor,
69 Alden White born July 13, 1792; died Jan. 27, 1858; married, Nov. 3, 1824, Jane McCully.
39 PHILIP WHITE, son of Peter White, 21. Killed in the War of the Revolu- tion, Mch. 30, 1782, by a party of the British Light Horse Cavalry. Married, first, . ; second, Oct. 29, 1773, Jane Miers, born Dec. 14, 1755; she married, second, Mr. Irons, and third, Mr. Devan.
Alfred Smith, a great-grandson of Jane Miers, by her third marriage, had in his possession, in 1882, the certificate of her marriage to Philip White, which he had found among his father's papers. It reads as follows:
"Jane Myer was born the fourteenth Day of December in the year 1775."
"This may Certifie all such as it may Concern that Philip White & Jane Miers have been Lafully loined in holy Matrimony by me October ye 29 1773
(Signed) CHARLES MACKNIGHT."
The Reverend Charles Mac Knight was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in
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Shrewsbury, about the time of this marriage. But the early records of that Church have been destroyed or lost for many years.
Mr. Smith had also in his possession a paper that gave the dates of birth of the two children of Philip White, as given beyond.
1782, Apr. 20. Letters of administration on the estate of Philip White, of New York, joiner, who died intestate, granted to his brother, William White.
New York Historical Society, Wills, Vol. 9, page 324.
According to Sabine's History of the Loyalists, George Taylor Dennison, Jr., tried to make Philip White to have been a son of Amos (No. 25) and Esther (Tilton-Borden) White. But there is not a particle of evidence to show that this couple had any child by what was a second marriage on the part of each of them. And other reasons showing Mr. Dennison's mistake have been set forth by the Reverend William White Hance in an article he published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, for July, 1905.
In hunting over some old newspapers for the time, the following was obtained from a copy of the Pennsylvania Journal, of the date of May 1, 1782:
"The circumstances attending the death of the above mentioned Philip White were as follows: On Saturday the 30th of March last, he was surprised by a party of our people, and after he had laid down his arms, in token of surrendering himself a prisoner, he again took up his musket and killed a son of Col. Hendrickson: he was however taken by our light horse, and on his way from Colt's Neck to Freehold, where they were conducting him, he again attempted to make his escape from the guard, who called on him several times to surrender, but he continued running, often crossed and recrossed by the light horse, and desired to stop, and finally, when leaping into a bog, impassable by the horse, he received a stroke in the head by a sword, which killed him instantly. The above facts have not only been proved by the affidavits of our friends who were present, but by the voluntary and candid testimony of one Aaron White, who was taken prisoner with the said Philip."
From Library of Pennsylvania Historical Society, in Philadelphia. Abstracts of letters from George Taylor Dennison to Jas. S. Lippincott.
February 21, 1880.
"I have gathered some further information since I wrote you last ..... From an old draft of a peti- tion to the Lieut. Gov. of Canada, I find that Mrs. Lippincott's father was a magistrate before the war, and died before the war commenced . . ... I may say that Mrs. Lippincott was a near relative of Philip White and Alexander White for we have an old book in our family which belonged to Alexander White brother of Philip we believe-but the tradition in our family is that Philip White was a near relative of Captain or Mrs. Lippincott-a cousin or step brother-perhaps this may aid you somewhat.
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