John White

Death: Oct 1777, Randolph Co., West Virginia, USA

m.Catharina Stalnaker (Stahlnecker)


Married Catharina Stalnaker (Stahlnecker)

Notes: History of Randolph County by Dr. A. S. Bosworth (Published 1916. Reprinted 1975.)

Chapter XVI, Pages 389-393
THE WHITE FAMILY
SURNAMES: BUCKEY/CALHOUN/CARR/CROUCH/CUNNINGHAM/CURRENCE/
DANIELS/DAVIS/DAY/DEVINE/ELGARD/EYE/GAWTHROP/HADDAN/HARMAN/
HARPER/HARTMAN/HERMON/HOUCHIN/KIMMELL/McLEAN/MONTONY/NELSON/
PAYNE/POWERS/REGER/ROBY/ROY/SCOTT/SMITH/SPECK/SUMMERFIELD/
TETER/VANDEVANDER/WARD/WARWICK/WHITE/WOOLWINE/ZINN
NOTE: Please verify all information with other sources.

The WHITE Family. This family of WHITES was among the first settlers in the Valley in 1772-4 . The Border Warfare mentions John and William WHITE as prominent participants in Indian warf are in Randolph in pioneer days. Lieutenant John WHITE was shot and killed from ambush by th e Indians in 1778. In October of that year, in the upper part of the Valley, the savages, i n hiding near the road, fired several shots at Lieutenant WHITE but only wounded his horse wh ich caused him to dismount. On foot in open ground he was shot, tomahawked and scalped. Willi am WHITE was captured by the Indians in 1777. He was taken to their villages in Ohio where h e procured a gun by artifice, shot an Indian, took his horse and made his way safely to the s ettlements in Randolph. At a later period he was killed by the Indians near the present tow n of Buckhannon.

John and William WHITE settled in the Valley above Huttonsville and were the neigh-bors of th e CROUCHES, the HADDANS, the CURRENCES and the WARWICKS. Price's history of Pocahontas says : William WHITE would frequently visit the home of Andrew CROUCH, senior, and the Major ha d a vivid recollection of the impression WHITE'S appearance made upon his youthful mind as h e walked the floor, he was so very tall and portly.

Isaac, son of John WHITE, was born near Huttonsville in 1776. He moved, when a young man, t o Beverly District, about a mile southwest of Beverly where he lived the remainder of a lon g life. This land had been entered prior to 1780 by Cartine and Jacob WHITE.

Isaac WHITE, was born September, 1776; married Margaret HADDAN, February 1, 1798. Children, P olly H., born November 9, 1798; John B., born April 27, 1800; Rachel, born February 28, 1802 , and Eliza, born December 4, 1804.
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