Display Patriot - P-318125 - Edward WHITE

Edward WHITE

SAR Patriot #: P-318125

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
DAR #: A124646

Birth: 27 Nov 1758 Brookline / Suffolk / MA
Death: 09 Jan 1812 Savannah / Chatham / GA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. 9th MA Regiment 4th Brigade 9th MA Regiment 1st Battalion Light Infantry First Brigade
  2. COLs JAMES WESSON, M JACKSON
  3. ENS - Captain NAHUM WARD; 3RD, 8TH, 9TH REGTS CL
  4. PVT - Captain THOMAS WHITE - Colonel WILLIAM HEATH, LEXINGTON ALARM

Additional References:
  1. “Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army,” Book by Francis Bernard Heitman, pg 585
  2. MA Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol 17, pg 65

Spouse: Mildred Scott Stubbs
Children: Benjamin Aspinwall; Maria/Mariah Susan;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2001-04-17 AL 9159 James Terry Honan (155530) Benjamin   
2018-06-15 GA 81507 James A. Poyner Jr. (207828) Benjamin   
Burial:
Colonial Park Cemetery (C-0371601)
Location:
Savannah / Chatham / GA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
33357
Grave Plot #:
A-129
Grave GPS Coordinates:
32.075650 / -81.089670
Find A Grave Memorial #:
41691032
Marker Type:

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Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Major Edward White   b. 1758       d. 1/9/1812                       CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA

A native of Brooklyn, Massachusetts, he served as an Ensign and Lieutenant in the 8th Regiment of the Massachusetts Infantry commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson.  He also served in Captain Burnham's Company of Light Infantry at the Battle of Yorktown.  In 1784, he moved to Savannah where he was the Inspector for the Port of Savannah and the Clerk of Court of Chatham County.  He died of an epileptic fit. 

Buried:  Colonial Cemetery, Section A-129, Savannah, Georgia.

See:         (1) Abstracts of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Reported to D.A.R. in 1935.

                (2) "Deaths of Revolutionary War Soldiers Who Died in Georgia and Their Widows.”

                (3) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 432, 466.

                (4) Marriages and Deaths:  1763 to 1820, p. 123.

                (5) Register of Deaths in Savannah, Georgia, v. 3, p. 16.

                (6) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, v. 3, p. 245.

Source:  Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke.  Edited by: Ryan Groenke.

A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index. 

Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.

 

Printed in the United States of America

New Papyrus Co., Inc.

548 Cedar Creek Drive

Athens, GA  30605-3408

 


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Residence: Brookline / Suffolk / MA



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