Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John White who was likely born in England and immigrated to America ca. 1664 with his brother (or cousin) named Thomas White. John married Elizabeth (surname unknown). They lived in Isle of Wight Co., North Carolina and were the parents of six known children. Descendants lived primarily in North Carolina.

A genealogy that spans nine generations ending with John White of Isle of Wight County, VA who died in 1718/19. His descendants migrated to eastern North Carolina in the early 1700s and were among one of the earliest Quaker families in that region.

Here is a county history that is extraordinarily rich in primary source materials, including abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Revolutionary War period and, moreover, petitions, divisions of estates, wills, and marriages found in the records of Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the records provide the names of all principal parties and related family members, places of residence and migration, descriptions of real and personal property, dates, boundary surveys, names of executors, witnesses, and appraisers, and dates of recording. Altogether, the index contains references to about 35,000 persons! Researchers should note that Perquimans was one of the original North Carolina precincts--with very close ties to the southeastern Virginia counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight--and for many years had fluid boundaries with the North Carolina counties of Chowan, Gates, and Pasquotank.

White Family