tember 1, 1647, Judith Davis, daughter of James Davis, one of the original settlers and an immigrant from Marlborough, England. Children: 1. Samuel, born August 30, 1648. 2. Judith, born April 2, 1650. 3. John, born December 8, 1652. 4. Hannah, born February, 1654. 5. Sarah, born March 1, 1657-58. 6. James, born August 27, 1660. 7. Ephraim, of whom further.

(II) Ephraim Guile, son of Samuel and Judith (Davis) Guile, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 21, 1661-62. He lived at Haverhill, and in 1711 was "one of the soldiers supplied with snowshoes for emergency in case of attack by the Indians." He married, January 5, 1686, Martha Bradley. Children: 1. Mary, born February 11, 1687. 2. Hannah, born August 11, 1690. 3. Mehitable, born December 1, 1692. 4. Sarah, born January 20, 169495. 5. Daniel, born December 10, 1697. 6. Judith, of whom further. 7. Samuel, born February 13, 1702-03. 8. Ephraim, born August 15, 1705. 9. Ebenezer, born September 11, 1708.

(III) Judith Guile, daughter of Ephraim and Martha (Bradley) Guile, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, May 3, 1700, and died in Killingly, Connecticut. She married, in 1724, Henry Greene, Jr., of Killingly, Connecticut. (See Greene IV).

REFERENCES:

(Thayer)-Bysshe: Visitation of the County of Essex, 166468. "Harleian Society Publications," Vol. XVII. "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. LX, pp. 281-90. Thayer Memorial, pp. 184-579. Thayer Family Memorial, pp. 136-154. Mendon (Massachusetts) Vital Records. (Greene)-Burke: "General Armory." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames. Greene: Genealogical Sketch of Descendants of Thomas Greene. Thompson (Connecticut) Church Records. Lorned: "History of Windham County." (Hayward)-Burke: "General Armory." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." "New England and Genealogical Register," Vol. XLV, p. 313—addition to "Savage Genealogical Dictionary." Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623, p. 152. "Harleian Society Publications," Vol. XLIII. (Gaskill)-Burke: "General Armory." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Salem (Massachusetts) Vital Records. Crane: "Historic Homes and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts," Vol. IV. Mendon (Massachusetts) Vital Records. (Southwick)Burke: "General Armory." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Caller and Ober: Genealogy of the Des

cendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. Salem (Massachusetts) Vital Records. (Reade)—Burke: "General Armory.” Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Reed: "History of the Reed Family." Reade Records, Nos. 5, 6, 10. Salem (Massachusetts) Vital Records. (Flagg)-Flagg Family of West Virginia. North: History of Augusta, Maine. (Leppingwell)-Sewall's History of Woburn, Massachusetts. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1640-1873. Leffingwell, 16371897, The Leffingwell Records, pp. 1-10. (Guile)—"History of the Guild, Guile, Gile Family."

The White and Allied Families

BY MARY MARJORIE TYLER, NEW YORK CITY

THE following pages contain family history which, from its very nature, is largely statistical, and which, to the average reader, might have a monotony born of repetition of similar statements. To two groups of individuals, however, will come a reaction directly opposed to this. These are the persons in whose veins the blood of these pioneers flows, and those whose historical and genealogical studies and researches enable them to read into the simple statement of the facts the drama of the settlement of a country, the subduing of a wilderness, and the upbuilding of a nation. To them this record belongs, with the possession that whole-hearted appreciation bestows.

We read that John White, Rowland Stebbins and the other founders of families, came from England to America in the early years of the seventeenth century, and we have a background of a slow-sailing vessel, meagre in comforts and utterly lacking in conveniences, perhaps becalmed for days, using weeks and months in a passage perilous at best. "He settled at Cambridge," or "He made his home in Roxbury," and there comes a picture of a laborious clearing of a cabin site, the hewing of logs, the winning of a tract of arable land from the forest, from which might come the forays of wild beasts or the arrows of hostile Indians. "With others he formed a church organization and established a school," become by the translation of sympathetic interpretation, acts of piety and civic duty that furnished New England with institutions that have stood as land-marks in her history. "He served in King Philip's War under Captain Turner," and there passes in review the fierce and bloody conflict with the wily chieftain Philip, son of the friendly Massasoit, the burning of Springfield, the service of Goffe, the regicide, at Hadley, and the great Turners Falls victory. Comes the Revolution and the record, "He entered the Continental Army," entered it with sacrifice to home and family, entered it for hardship and suffering, perhaps death, entered it to become one of a pitifully small band of poorly equipped, under-organized patriots

daring to pit their strength against the might of England for a principle alone. Closer touch with the events of later years gives their experiences closer reality, but reading between the lines is essential for the full significance of an early genealogical study to be grasped.

Emphasis upon the lives and services of the men of the colonial settlements can only be given if equal stress is laid upon the courage, patience, and devotion of the women of their families, the wives, mothers, and daughters to whom the transplantation from comfortable English homes was an upheaval endurable only through the sustaining strength of faith and love. Many a colonial goodwife proved herself the possessor of physical and moral courage the equal of that of her spouse, and despite the limited sphere of activity of women of that day, they share fully in the homage and honor bestowed by posterity.

In the following pages a clear ancestral trail is traced from the remote past to the present. It is a human document, full of interest and inspiration to him who reads it with knowledge and understanding. Fortunate are those who are "linked to the end of this goodly chain."

(The White Line).

Arms-Gules, a chevron between three boars' heads couped argent, tusked or.
Crest-Out of a mural coronet gules a boar's head argent, bristled or.
Motto-Per ardua fama. (Fame through difficulties).

The names White and Whyte are officially classified as nicknames, and were originally applied to those of a very fair complexion. Other surnames, whose derivation was identical, are Black, Brown, Read, Russell, Blunt, etc. Mention is made of the patronymic in nearly all of the early registers, rolls and records. The Hundred Rolls (1273 A. D.) gives Geoffrey le Whyte, of County Cambridge, and Roger le Whyte, of County Sussex; and in the Poll Tax of Yorkshire (1379) are found the names of Thomas White, souter, and Magota Whyt.

(The Family in America).

(I) Elder John White was one of the first settlers of Cambridge in Massachusetts, of Hartford in Connecticut, and of Hadley in Massachusetts. Neither the time nor the place of his birth

is known, but from the ages of his children and the time of his death it may reasonably be inferred that he was born about 1595-96.

His close connection with the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church makes it very probable that he had known and valued Hooker's ministry in England. Chelmsford, the county-town of Essex County, about thirty miles northeast of London, was the seat of Hooker's labors. An examination of the parish register of Chelmsford shows that the name of White was a common one in that town, but as yet no evidence has been found connecting Elder John White's family with those in the parish register.

The first knowledge we have of John White is as a passenger in the ship "Lion," commanded by Captain Peirce, which sailed from England about June 22, 1632, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday, September 16 following, after a voyage of eight weeks from Land's End.

John White was doubtless accompanied by his family, which then consisted of his wife and at least two children. He first settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with other followers of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who had come over earlier. The location and quantity of John's allotments of land indicate that in his contribution to the common stock of the settlement he was in a middle place, neither among the wealthier nor the poorer classes. It is a fair inference from this that his position in England was a comfortable one. He was admitted a freeman of Massachusetts, March 4, 1633. In 1635 he was one of the selectmen with John Haynes, Simon Bradstreet, John Talcott, William Westwood, William Wadsworth, all prominent and influential citizens.

In June, 1636, the main body of Rev. Hooker's company, including probably one John White with his family, went to Hartford, Connecticut, where John was recorded as one of the original proprietors, and in 1642 was chosen one of the selectmen of the town. He was again elected to this office in 1646, 1651 and 1656.

Of his private life but little seems to be known. He was probably a farmer, for the records show that he owned some property in Middletown, but not the exact amount nor how long he retained it. Various differences of opinion among church members induced the followers of Elder Goodwin, who supported Rev. Hooker's views, to found a new settlement on the Connecticut River, above