James Keitha White

James married Elvira Freeman on 1 Jul 1847 in Louisiana. Elvira was born in 1820 in Louisiana; died on 25 Jun 1930 in Rapides, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Louis Franklin "Frank" White was born in Nov 1856 in Louisiana; died on 25 Jun 1930 in Rapides, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

Reuben married Mary Ann Courtney on 19 Oct 1818 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Mary was born in 1801; died in 1847 in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary "Polly" Paul about 1784 in Natchez District, Mississippi. Mary was born about 1766 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died about 1814 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 15 Aug 1768, PeeDee River, Mars Bluff, Craven Co, South Carolina; The Regulators
• Property: Between 1772 and 1778, Burke Co, North Carolina
• Residence: Between 1780 and 1781, Washington Co, North Carolina
• Residence: May 1782, Natchez, Mississippi

Notes:

Other-Begin:
1768- August 15 -reported an incident near Marr's Bluff, on Pedee River. An armed company of Regulators, "headed by one Gideon Gibson, on the 25th past, near Marr's Bluff, surrounded a constable and twelve men, who were sent to bring one of the villans before a Magistrate, and after a short skirmish, where two of the Constable's Party were mortally wounded, and one shot thro the shoulder, took the Rest Prisoners, whom he discharged, after ordering them 50 lashes each." [South Carolina Gazette, August 15, 1768]


Property:
1772-78 - John White and James White received land grants in Burke Co., NC but they did not stay long. [Gifford White]


Residence:
1780-81 - John White and James White appeared on the property tax rolls of Washington Co., NC, now part of Tenneessee.
White, James 5 horses, 8 neat cattle 447.10.0
White, John 3 horses, 5 cattle 107.10.0"

Residence:
John White settled on the lower Vermilion River of Louisiana. he and others of the family received land grants there.


1782, May - John White and James White arrived with their families in Natchez Terr. on the lower Mississippi River. James dies here c1783. The Spanish record here lists the families that arrived in May, 1782 in Natchez. [Natchez Court Records 1767-1805]

Relacion de familias americanas, signed Carlos de Grand-Pré, Natchez, July 6, 1782 AGI, PC, leg. 193-b.
13 familias como sigue:
Individuos Esclavos (slaves)
Thomas Green, wife & children 11 32
Thomas Marston Green, wife & son 11 3
Cato West, wife and son 8 3
Guillaume Duelt, wife and children 3 23
David Smith, wife & children 5 7 Guillermo David & wife & children 4 2
Juan White, wife & children 8 1
Tiago White, wife & children 11 1
Ricardo Gooden, wife & children 5 2
Thomas Ethridge, wife & children 4 -
Xphal Ryer & wife 2 -
Guillermo Barland 1 -
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Pasageros y enganchados: 7 72 88
Total: 79

note: Guillame Duelt is probably William Dewitt who had married Catherine White, the daughter of William White, just before the voyage.
Juan White is John White.
Guillaume White is William White brother to both Juan and Tiago (James) White.

James married Jerusha Davenport about 1756 in Culpeper Co, Virginia. Jerusha (daughter of Thomas Davenport and Mrs. Dorothy (M.?) (..) Davenport) was born about 1738 in Hanover Co, Virginia; died in 1785 in Natchez, Adams Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]