Reuben White Family
Virginia,
North Carolina, South
Carolina,
Tennesee, and Natchez Territory
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
| Child with Reuben White |
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|---|---|---|---|
| ?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 |
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| Milly Craig# | b. 22 Sep 1790# | d. | m. John Chapman 22 Feb 1810# |
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.
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
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)
Test. W: Avery
Alexander
Cole made oath
as above this 20th day of August
1777 before us ---
Charles McDowell
Matt Sharpe
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