Possible Children
Reuben White	b. about 1765	d. 1835	m. Elizabeth (b. 1770 d. ?)
James White	b. about 1765	d. betwn 1840-50	m. Mary Paul  about 1787
possibly other unknown children

*records of Gifford White,  this list may not be complete.  see the notes in 1782

According to Gifford White,  "James White appears on the land records of South Carolina (at the same time as John and Reuben) although there is no proof that he ever lived there.   In 1777-79 he appears (with the other) in the land records of Burke Co., N. Car. He was never called Junior and it is my opinion that James Taylor White died before the removeal to Burke C."  

1778, 10 Feb. - James White enter in Burke County 200 acres of Land in the Mulberry fork beginning on a conditional made by John Brimley and said White and running down both sides of siad fork and including a mill seat on the west side and an improvement against siad tract and the improvement that the said White now lives on the East side of the fork for complmt. Entered 10 February 1778.  [Land Entries ss 949 Bruke Co., N. C.]

1780-81 - James and John White are listed in the tax rolls of Washington Co., N. Carolina.  This area is presently in Tennessee.  

1781 - John and James sold their lands and cattle  and apparently invested there cash in slaves which were considered a more portable way to transfer their wealth to the new land.  [White, p13]

1782, May - James White and family are listed as having arrived in Natchez Territory by the Spanish authorities. Also listed at the same time is John White and William Dewitt, his brother-in-law.  The Spanish rec ords list him as Tiago White,  Tiago being the same as James.
       
            Tiago White, wife & children       11 individuals 1 slave

It is unknown  who else may have been here other than the children.  If the above dates are correct none of the above children should have been born by the immigration to Natchez.   I wonder if James would have accepted the responsiblity of some accompanying neices and nephews.   He could also have had at least two other children by this date.  

1782, June 1 - James White sold to Widow Anne McIntosh a negro woman, aged 40, of Barbados.   $300 in cows, etc.
                                                                                            [Natchez Court Records, 1781-1798]

1785 - Reuben, James' son, gives a deposition along with his mother, Jerusha, in the trial of William Dewitt/Duett.  Reuben was probably old enough, being probably ast least eighteen, to give a legal deposition.  This also means to me that  James was married by 1765 and was probably born before 1745.  

 "The  declaration of Reuben White and Mrs. White and Mrs. White, his mother, sayeth that in the latter part of the year 1781, John White was living in Washington, North Carolina, and that he went to Kentucky to buy salt and when said White set off for salt the deceaased wife of Mr. William Dewitt was alive and when the said Jaohn White returned William Dewitt's wife was dead and Mr. dewitt had gone to Burke County near about 100 miles the contrary way to be married to the woman that he now has got, and ... James White, deceased, father of Reuben White, and husband to Mrs. White... James White.. said to his brother John White... " 31 Jany 1785.

1810 - US Census, Louisiana
            Rapides Parish
                        White, Reuben                                2 3 0 1 0 - 1 0 0 1 0
                        White, James                                  1 2 3 1 0 - 3 1 0 1 0

sources:

Bruke Co., N. C. Land records
Washington Co., N. Carolina. land records
White, Gifford. James Taylor White of Virginia, 1982 . Gifford White, Austin TX
McBee, May Wilson. Natchez Court Records, 1781-1798, Abstract of Early Records, the May Wilson McBee Collection. Vol. 1 and 2. Greenwood Miss. 1953, unrecorded lands claims
US Census,

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