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From: "Derick S. Hartshorn" <>
Subject: [Catawba-West] Joabert WHITE, Lincoln Co., NC>Lumpkin Co. GA/Sally MOUSER
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:19:02 -0400
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At 03:11 PM 6/21/2000 , you wrote:
>Catawba County, NC Query Forum
>A new message, "White's in N.C.," was posted by Todd White on Wed, 21 Jun
>2000
>Surname: White, Mouser

Todd,

The White family has been a difficult one to follow as there were
half-a-dozen WHITEs within Cabarrus, Lincoln, Tryon, Rutherford; and later,
large migrations to bounty land in the Mid-West. I am working on the family
of (Capt.?) James White of Long Creek, present day, a little west of
Bessemer City. I follow them back to Oxford Twp., Chester Co., PA (on the
paternal side) and West Nottingham Twp. ("New Connought") Cecil Co., MD (on
the maternal). A John White, who's will was proved 20 June 1775, made 23
May 1772, names sons James, Thomas and Isaac, among others. Thought to have
been brothers by several authors of King's Mountain material, Thomas and
Isaac arrived in 1779, after James had already bought land, seven years
prior. After the War, Thomas took bounty land in Bond Co., Illinois and
died there in 1824. Isaac followed his brother to Bond Co., and in 1821,
died at the age of sixty-one years. James stayed behind as did most of his
line, in Tryon County (est. 1768--he bought land here in 1772), later
(1779) Lincoln, later (1846) Gaston Co., in the Long Creek area. This is
the James that was a founder of Long Creek Presbyterian Church, in 1780. He
is buried in the Long Creek Church cemetery next to his wife, Sarah Mary
Givens, daughter of Robert and Lucy (Hartshorn) Givens. Her mother was born
about 1720, probably near Norwich, Conn. She is also buried at the Long
Creek Cemetery; died in 1815, at the probably age of 95. This marks one of
the very early migrations, southward from New England). Lucy Hartshorn,
from a long line of Mass.-Conn. Hartshorns was one of the very first female
Hartshorns to live in the Deep South. Her son-in-law, James White, MAY have
served at King's Mountain but there is no certainty that he is the same
one. A second-generation Irishman, apparently this James was the first
sheriff of Lincoln County (1779).

My work continues and I am still trying to discern the John White "of
Oxford Twp." in his will (proved June 1775) reads, in part:

Provides for wife Margaret. To son Saml. 15 pounds. To daughter Janet
Love 15 pounds. To son James 6 pounds. To son Edward 16 pounds. To son
Thomas 16 pounds. To son Isaac 16 pounds. To daughters Sarah and Rebecca
their beds and saddles. Remainder equally divided.
Executors: John Ross and Thomas Love
Wit: David Fleming, Thomas Armstrong, John Black

There were other John Whites in Chester Co., just as there have been
several James Whites in the same geographical area in North Carolina.

I am still beyond documentation as to the James I seek. He is either not
the James mentioned in the will, or the possibility that Thomas and Isaac
(of King's Mountain fame) are necessarily the ones mentioned in the will.
The White and Givens families (PA) and the Hartshorn family (MD) are
documented to have intermarried. Sarah Mary (Givens) White had a brother,
Jonathan Thomas, who was the Jonathan who appears on a deposed list of
soldiers in Capt.Jacob Collins Company at the surrender of Charleston (12
May 1780), dated 14 Oct 1786. He also appears on a list of militia paroled
by Lord Cornwallis. The list includes 534 men that were taken prisoner at
the battle of Guilford Court House, 15 March 1781. He was the son of Lucy
(Hartshorn) Givens, brother to Sarah Mary.

Many folks are interested in this project and a mini-list was created. I
think this family deserves a web page but other commitments don't leave me
with much time. If you have any thoughts on this, or if a formal list could
be established, relating to the WHITE families that migrated from PA/MD to
NC. I think a lot more material could get out and maybe the "who's who"
mystery can be solved. Please write me at Derick S. Hartshorn
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>NAME: Todd White
>EMAIL:
>DATE: Jun 21 2000
>URL: http://
>QRYTEXT: JOABERT WHITE and Sarah "Sally" Mouser were married by a bond
>dated Jan. 29, 1829 in Lincoln County. Some time later they moved to
>Lumpkin Co. GA. Looking for any additional information on the White's in
>the area of Catawba Co. North Carolina 1700's to mid 1800's..
>
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