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Personal data John White [Wh-WbiOldPurityBu ] 

  • He was born in the year 1720 in Broughshane, Ballymena Parish, County Antrim, Ireland.Source 1
  • He died before 1773 in Youngsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina.Source 1
  • He is buried Row 7-Grave 17-Within Stone Wall in Concord Cemetery, Woodward, Fairfield, South Carolina.Source 1
  • This information was last updated on June 25, 2023.

Household of John White [Wh-WbiOldPurityBu ]

He is married to Ann Garner.

They got married about 1750 at Ireland.


Child(ren):

  1. William White  1752-1833 
  2. Margaret White  ± 1756-1820
  3. Eleanor White  ± 1758-1839 
  4. Isabel White  1760-???? 
  5. Jennet White  ± 1762-1815 
  6. Victoria White  ± 1764-1834 
  7. Unknown White  1767-????


Notes about John White [Wh-WbiOldPurityBu ]

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John WHITE and family arrived in Charleston SC on the ship "Earl of
Donegal" on 10 December 1767 (list being presented on 22 December 1767) from Belfast.
It is believed that they came from Broughshane, County Antrim Ireland.

The Clerk of (Governor's Council) at a board meeting swore that he had
been on board the imigrant ship and that all 265 passengers were
Protestants and had come over on the encouragement and Bounty offered
by the General Assembly in 1761.

Death: John White was killed in a skirmish with Cherokee Indians and
was buried in Old Concord Cemetery near present day Woodward
(formerly Youngsville)

References: "The White Family 1720-1932"
Dr. Garner Brown White, Mathew Elder White & D. Dale White

(As copied by Thelma B. Campbell prior to 1989
with additional notes by TBC)

"A Goodly Heritage, A History of Chester, SC"
Collins 975.747

"Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina"
US/CAN 975.747 H2h

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John White

John White
1720-< 1773

± 1750

Ann Garner
1727-1818

William White
1752-1833
Margaret White
± 1756-1820
Eleanor White
± 1758-1839
Isabel White
1760-????
Jennet White
± 1762-1815
Victoria White
± 1764-1834
Unknown White
1767-????

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Sources

  1. Find A Grave, via http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi..., January 24, 2007
    John White
    Birth: 1720, Ireland
    Death: Jan. 1, 1790
    Woodward
    Fairfield County
    South Carolina, USA

    The date of death of John White was in the 1770's or 1780's almost certainly but when is now lost from family lore in what was then known as Youngsville in Fairfield District. It would seem likely it was in the 1770's (or earlier in the 1760's during the first few years after arrival) and thus perhaps even before the actual start of the war for independence, for otherwise William might have gone and John as an older man would have stayed home from the fray described below.

    It seems probable that John's death was prior to the establishment of the cemetery at Purity church in 1787. Thus there would be no clear drive to return the body to the local church cemetery and John was buried at the nearest local cemetery to where John died, or so it seems.

    Ann Garner White was, it seems in reviewing the 1790 decennial records for Chester District, a widow of John White living most probably with her only son and his wife in the original family home in 1790. No separate census enumeration is found for an Ann White so the home of this couple must have had a different head of household and that would logically and historically imply with virtual certainty William White the only son. When John died did not survive in family lore or the family Bible, but a fine history was written by family members so from the White family book by Dr. Garner Brown White, a dentist; Matthew Elder "Pet" White, a farmer and supplemented decades later by Rev. Bonner Dale White, an ARP missionary we have this:

    "There is no accurate information available concerning the time of John White's death and place of burial. However through Daniel Stinson, a historian, who accumulated considerable knowledge concerning early events, which took place in Chester County, we learn that, according to tradition, John White was killed near what was then Youngsville, but now called Woodward in Fairfield County, S. C., in a skirmish with Cherokee Indians. Since that was before the day of vehicles, his friends were not able to bring his body home to Chester County for burial, and so his remains were buried in the old Concord cemetery, which is near what was then Youngsville, but now Woodward. The Cherokee Indians frequently came across the North Carolina border, and made raids on the Catawba Indians in the vicinity of Chester, S. C. During at least some of these encounters, the white settlers joined forces with the Indians of the Catawba tribe, and as a result of such cooperation on the part of the settlers, the Indians became fast friends of their white neighbors. It is interesting to note just here that a remnant of the Catawba Indians still exists near Rock Hill, S. C., where the South Carolina government has set apart a reservation for these Indians, and given them permission to draw a pension from the state."

    From the SC Council colonial records of 1767 we have

    Among those passengers, who that day set foot on Carolina soil, were John White and his wife, Ann Garner White, formerly of County Antrim, Ireland. Nothing is known definitely of the exact place from which they came, but tradition has it that they came from Broughshane, or some place nearby. Dr. G. B. White of Chester, South Carolina, while visiting in Ireland during the year 1903, found a number of tombstones in the cemetery at Broughshane bearing the family name of White, but he was not able to trace authentically any direct connection between those Whites and John and Ann White.

    John and Ann White were the progenitors of that large connection of Whites, who, since the earliest settlement of what is now Chester County, South Carolina, have lived in the neighborhood of Old Purity Presbyterian Church and cemetery, about two and a half miles south-east of the town of Chester on the Chester-Great Falls highway.

    From the ship's passenger list and other sources including a table in that same White family book we get the following information concerning John White and his family:

    Emigrant Name Child Gen. Age Est. Year
    ..................... No. No. ........... Born
    John White...............1....47.....1720
    Ann Garner White.......1....40.....1727
    William White.....1......2....14.....1753
    Margaret White..2......2....11.....1756
    Helen White.......3......2.....9.....1758
    Isabel White......4......2.....7.....1760
    Jannet White.....5......2.....5.....1762
    Victoria White....6......2.....3.....1764

    Family links:

    Burial::
    Old Purity Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    Chester
    Chester County
    South Carolina, USA
    Plot: Memorial marker by wife on Row 7 actual grave elsewhere

    Created by: KinMapper
    Record added: Jan 24, 2007
    Find A Grave Memorial# 17674877

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