Reuben
White
Family
Virginia,
North Carolina, South
Carolina,
Tennessee, and Natchez Territory
Reuben White
b. ?
d. Oct 1776 NC
1m. (possible early marriage according
the
Gifford
White)
m. (possible 2nd)
Milly
Allen
b. ?
d.
her father: Erasmus Withers Allen of Virginia
her 2nd m. Alex Craig 8 Nov1789
father - James
Taylor
White
mother- Elizabeth Powe
Child with Reuben White
|
| ?Mary White* |
b. c1730 VA* |
d. 27 Nov.1818 Burke Co.,
North Carolina |
m. ?Charles Evans
?2m. James Blakney |
Child of her second marriage to Alex
Craig
|
| Milly Craig# |
b. 22 Sep 1790# |
d. |
m. John Chapman 22 Feb 1810# |
* This child is not mentioned in Reuben's will
and may be proved to be false.
#records of Gifford White p.7
1767-1775 , There are 17 plats that have a
reference Reuben White to either as a primary purchaser, adjoining
land
or as a witness
in Craven County, South Carolina between these years. Here a some
with
him
as a primary. He may have been reselling many of plats but there
is
little
to no record of the property disposition. Some how Reuben seems to
have
accumulated a good deal of money to help out his sister in law,
Sophia
White
in 1777. [Gifford White p45]
21-430 --- 500 acres on Jeffreys Creek
21-431 --- 600 acres on fork of Little Pee Dee
21-433 --- 300 acres on the Beaver dam of Jeffreys Creek
21-434 --- 100 acres on Tobys Creek and Peedee River
1772- the Diary of Evan Pugh, 1762-180?
Evan Pugh was a Baptist minister who married and recorded the
marriage
of Rubin White and Milly Allen on February 22 of 1772. [White p
38]
1773 - Reuben White makes his will in
South
Carolina. He is supposed to have been killed in a militia action
w/
Indians,
Burke Co, NC. in 1776. It is possible that between 1773 and 1776
he
married
and had a child. No wife or children are listed in the will even
though
after the marriage of 1772. His wife and child may have died
before
this
will was made but if his daughter survived to marry why is she
or her
husband
not mentioned in the will.
[Misc. Records, Vol. SS, pp 169-171
S. Car. Archives Dept., Columbia]
To All people to whom these presents
shall
come. Greetings.
I, Reuben White of the Parish
of
Saint
David in Craven County in the Province of South Carolina,
Planter and
surveyor,
do make known and declare and then know ye that I the said
Reuben White
for
and in consideration of the love, good will and affection I
have and
bear
toward my sister in law Sophia White, wife of my
Brother
William
White of the same place, planter and the children she
hath had in
marriage
by him, and divers other good causes and considerations
thereunto me
moving
according to the rules of Justice and equity have given,
granted and by
these
presents do freely give and grant to the said Sophia White
during her
life
at her disposal, and after her decease to Mary the wife of
George
Hickman,
Phobe White, Sarah White, Betsy White, Taylor White, Ann
White, Cary
White,
Anthony White, Thomas White and Reuben White,
their
children
now living by my said Brother William White, all and several
the
following
negroes, Viz. One negro fellow York, one negro fellow
Tony,
one
wench Cassandra , one wench Rachael, one boy
March,
one
boy Will, one boy Andrew, one boy Jupiter,
one boy Scipio, one girl Sylvia, and their
increase,
also all sorts
of household goods mentioned. Implements of household and
implements of
husbandrey and particularly six feather beds and furniture,
one desk,
six
chairs, one cupboard and crockery war, a parcell of pewter,
one chest,
one
had mill, one cross cut saw, one whip saw, one sett of cooper
tools,
one
sett of carpenters and all the plantation tools, fifty head of
hogs
marked
with a swallow fork and under bit in one year and two under
bitts in
the
other with other marks, four head of cattle of the same mark,
one horse
branded
WB (?) one mare branded R.2. one buttock and shoulder. The
mare branded
3TW. One mare branded GG on the buttock one rifler gun and
smooth bore
gun, six iron potts, one frying pan, one skillet and all the
singular
other
the goods and implements of household and husbandry mentioned
in a Bill
of
Sale made to me by the said William White and dated 17 May
1771. To
have
and to hold all the premises above mentioned to the said
Sophia White
to
her own use during her natural life with my said brother and
state of
widowhood. But in case of her death or marriage in future to
revert to
the said children,
then their heirs, Exors, Admrs, or Assigns share and share
alike
forever
according to law in such cases. And I the said Reuben White
all and
singular
the said premises to the said Sophia White and the said
children and to
them
and their heirs & assigns against all persons claiming or
to claim
to
defiend by these presents. And I have given her for that
purpose
identically
to her the said Sophia White full possession,
property livery
and seizen for herself and said children of the whole premises
forever,
by
delivering herexx one desk above mentioned part of the said
goods
particularly
mentioned husband therefrom, having taken all his debts upon
myself --
In witness whereof I have therunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this
the 13th day of December, one thousand seven hundred and
seventy three
and
in the 11th year of his majesty's reign.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of . . . .
Reuben White
LS
Alex Cole
Geo Hickman
1776- an affidafit by Washington Leroy Taylor
in
1832 pension application stated that he had enlisted in "the
County of
Burke
aforesaid under Capn Rheuben White, a capn of the North Carolina
Militia
under the command of Col. Charles McDowel of Genl Rutherfords
, to serve a three months tour of duty and was marched to
the
head
of the Catawba River (place called the Pleasant Gardens ) where
the
troops
were all to meet & when met a convention of the officers took
place
and
His Captain having been killed before they arrived at the Pleasant
Gardens
by the Indians the declarant was appointed by Col McDowel to
command
the
company which White had command of before his death, ...". He goes
on
to
decribe that he had enlisted about the month of October 1776 thus
Reuben
probably dies about this time. [Gifford White p55]
by 1777 - The entire White family had
moved
to
Burke Co., North Carolina. [Gifford White]
James Taylor White may have died before
the
move
to Burke Co., NC. [Gifford White]
1777 - In the following document in
Gifford
White's
history of the James Taylor White family, Reuben White's gift of
ten
slaves
to Sophia White which may have previously been the property of
William
and
Sophia White before William's death. It may have been a way of
avoiding
probate taxes or creditor. He assumes in this document all debts
of
William
White. In the meanwhile Reuben seems to have died and the gift
is
attested
to by the witnesses including "the widow of said Reuben" ( Milly
Allen)
and
the widows father, Erasmus Allen. Since Reuben's wife and father
in law
were present at the time of the purchase of William's slaves, I
see no
credibility
to the possibility that Reuben had abandoned his wife and child.
The slaves include: "One negro fellow
York,
one
negro fellow Tony, one wench Cassandra, one wench Rachael, one
boy
March,
one boy Will, one boy Andrew, one boy Jupiter, one boy Scipio,
one girl
Sylvia,
and their increase,...." [Miscl. records, Vol. SS, pp 169-171,
S. Car.
Archives
Dept, Columbia, S. C.]
Reuben White to Sophia White & her
children
(Burke County Civil and Criminal Cases, N. C. Dept of Archives
&
History,
Folder 1777)
North Carolina, Burke County
Be it remembered that at the house of Col.
Charles
McDowell on the 20th
Day of August 1777. Alexander
Cole
(one of the subscribing witnesses to
the within deed of gift for ten negroes & sundry other
articles
from
Reuben White to the wife & children of William White)
appeared
before
Col. Charles McDowelll & Matthew Sharp & made oath that
he saw Reuben
White sign seal & deliver the said deed as his own
free
& voluntary
act & deed for the uses & purposes therein mentioned
& that
he
the said Cole subscribed the same as a witness together with George Hickman,
and that he and the said George also signed the certificate on
the back
thereof,
and saw the deed there mentioned actually delivered, and lastly
that he
this
deponent had already made oath in South Carolina before Joseph Gourly, agreeable
to the certificate of the said Joseph on the second leaf of the
same
sheet
of paper whereon the said deed was originally wrote --- All this
was
done
in the presence of the widow
of
Reuben White and her
father
Erasmus Allen
and a great many other persons.
Test. W: Avery
Alexander
Cole made oath
as above this 20th day of August
1777 before us ---
Charles McDowell
Matt Sharpe
sources:
book G, Northern Neck Grants,
Virginia
State
Archives
South Carolina Gazette, Oct 24 1768
Pre-Revolutionary Plats, Vol 6, p 256
Land Grant Records, State Archives of South Carolina, Columbia.,
SC
McBee, May Wilson. Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Abstract
of
Early
Records, the May Wilson McBee
Collection. Vol. 1 and 2. Greenwood Miss. 1953,
unrecorded lands
claims
Records of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana State Land Office.,
Stilly, John. Letter and documents of Oct. 1999, P. O. Box 34,
Ponchatoula,
LA 70454 - email - JStil94561@aol.com
US Census records
White, Gifford. James Taylor White of Virginia, 1982 .
Gifford
White,
Austin TX
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