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	John White, Mayor of Oxford
		White married Mary, the daughter of Alderman Thomas Weekes, and they had two sons, one of who was also called John, around the late 1640s.
		White is described as being "of Stanton St John" in the inscription that was put on her monument, "a great table against the north wall".
		White’s son John must have remained in Oxford, for he was doing carpentry work for the Council in 1675 and was their Surveyor of Nuisances until 1676.
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/mayors/1603_1714/white_john_1664.htm (707 words)

	Encyclopedia: John White (surveyor) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A sketch by John White of Indians at Roanoke.
		White later became governor of the newly established Roanoke Colony.
		John White of Stanton St John This same "John White of Stanton St John" who died in 1618 respectfully had a son by the name of the Rev. John White (1575â“1648) of Dorchester who himself became famous as the "Founder of Massachusetts", the colony.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-White-(surveyor) (2147 words)

	John White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John White (surgeon), (1756 - 1832), Surgeon-General of New South Wales
		John White (Kentucky politician), (1802-1845), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
		John White (administrator) (1946–), Commissioner of British Antarctic Territory and British Indian Ocean Territory, (1998–2001)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_White (173 words)

	Early Canada Historical Narratives -- JOHN WHITE
		John White, a barrister, was the member of the first Legislative Assembly for the county of Leeds and Frontenac.
		White's victory was due largely to Simcoe's presence in the area during the election campaign for the Governor strongly endorsed White's candidature.
		Although White had a significant impact on the legal and judicial system of Upper Canada, his historic claim is not to fame but to the infamy arising largely from the manner of his death and the circumstances surrounding it.
	www.uppercanadahistory.ca /ucfel/ucfel4.html (1666 words)

	Dorchester Atheneum: John White
		White to be the governor of the newly organized venture at Cape Ann, in 1625.
		White, it is to be accepted as correct, and as referring to his own activity by "conferring casually," by "fresh agitation in Lon¬don," by "argument and disputation," and by "often agitation" of this affair.
		White, would mean that after he had been present at Plymouth to give his blessing and counsel to the group sailing on the Mary & John, he went to Yarmouth to bless the greater company which he had served so long and faithfully.
	www.dorchesteratheneum.org /page.php?id=917 (4324 words)

	John White
		John White, enters in Burke County 200 acres of Land on the Middle Creek or on the Middle for of Johns river located as follows, Beginning a conditional line Thomas White and the said John White and running down the Creek to conclude the pole but not to interrupt any person's right or survey.
		John White settled on the lower Vermilion River of Louisiana.
		"Guillaume White, legitimate son of Juan Wheite and Sara Gembell (native of Virginia) to Amanda Compstock, ligitimate daughter of Glodio Compstock and Rachel Aldrich (nateive of Rhode island).
	www.next1000.com /family/EC/white.john.html (1390 words)

	George Washington article - George Washington Larger image White House Portrait April 30 1789 March 1797 John - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a youth, he was trained as a surveyor and helped survey the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
		He inherited his brother's estate, Mount Vernon (near Alexandria), at the age of 20 and was initiated as a Freemason in Fredericksburg on 4 February 1752.
		Given this, virtually all historians believe that the positions are not the same, and therefore the first "true" US President (in the sense of being America's full Head of State) is George Washington.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/George_Washington (2894 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John West (q.v.) took a prominent part in the formation of the anti-transportation league which between 1849 and 1853 had an important influence in the success of this movement.
		White was given the important position of chief of the general staff of Birdwood's army.
		He passed the examination for licensed surveyor in 1872, and was sent by the surveyor-general of New South Wales to the new tin-mining district in New England, New South Wales, on which he reported, and in 1874 he was appointed geological surveyor.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html (20436 words)

	John Ogden (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John was appointed Justice of the Peace by Gov. Carteret Oct. 16 1665 and on November 1, 1665 made him a member of his council, or Deputy Governor.
		The Dutch Generals and Council of War made John Ogden 'Schout' or Sheriff of the six towns, on Sept. 1, 1673, and on the same day he and Samuel Hopkins were directed to take an inventory of the estate of the late Gov. Carteret.
		John Ogden "of Elizabeth towne" in "new East Jersey" left to "Jaan Ogden my Deare and beloved wife...for above fowerty yeares"..."all my Estate bothe movables and immoveables that is to say houses lands cattles goods and whatever else..." An inventory was made by Humphrey Spinning and John Derent 30 May 1682.
	www.columbiagypsy.net /johogd.htm (2803 words)

	British Museum - A New World
		John White, a gentleman and artist, was largely responsible for shaping England’s first view of America, though few are familiar with his name.
		John White may have been associated with Martin Frobisher's search for the Northwest Passage and was the earliest English artist to draw the Inuit they encountered in Baffin Island.
		White and Raleigh continued their preparations for a permanent colony of one hundred and fifteen men, women and children at the 'Cittie of Raleigh' on the Chesapeake and John White was appointed their Governor with twelve assistants.
	www.britishmuseum.org /the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2007/a_new_world.aspx (710 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		White was most concerned personally with the bill establishing the Court of King’s Bench and the district courts in 1794.
		In response to White’s requests, the Duke of Portland, secretary of state for the Home Department, had approved a land grant equivalent to that of an executive councillor; news of his decision reached York after White’s death, and the land was given to his wife and children.
		White had attempted to make provision for his mistress in York, Mrs Susanna Page, and their two daughters, but nothing was done for them.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36333 (1181 words)

	St. Clair County Biographies
		JOHN W., farmer and insurance agent, section 22, was born in Washington County, New York, January 20, 1829, and was a son of Samuel and Emily (Whitney) Pierce, the former a native of New York and the latter of Vermont.
		John Sink, his father, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, was married on the 14th day of July, 1822, to Miss Sallie A. Peterson, of Wilmington, and by this union there were three children, of whom John R. was the youngest.
		JOHN T. is a native of Gasconade County, Missouri, and was born in 1853, being the son of Thomas and Jane (Miller) Tucker, both originally from Tennessee, the former having been born in 1830.
	looktothepast.com /stclairbios3.html (22169 words)

	John White Geary
		John Geary was born December 20, 1819 in a log house near Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and served in the Mexican War with the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment.
		John White Geary had a colorful career as a governor of two states and was known as a consummate administrator as far west as California.
		John C. Fremont, in his report of the expedition to the Rocky mountains, says, "we arrived on the 8th (June, 1843) at the mouth of the Smokyhill fork, which is the principal southern branch of the Kansas, forming here, by its junction with the Republican, or northern branch, the main Kansas river."
	isc.temple.edu /awaskie/GearyInfo.htm (11298 words)

	John White Geary (1819-1873)
		John White Geary (December 30, 1819 - February 8, 1873) was a lawyer, politician (mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, and governor of Pennsylvania), and Union general in the American Civil War.
		Geary was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, the son of Richard Geary, an ironmaster and schoolmaster, and Margaret White, a native of Maryland.
		Geary County, Kansas, is named in honor of John W. Geary (at the insistence of its citizens, instead of the proposed name honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis), as is Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, a major artery in that city, and Geary Hall, an undergraduate dorm building in East Halls at Pennsylvania State University.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/geary.html (969 words)

	John Brown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John's father was staunchly anti-slavery and was a voluntary agent for the Underground Railroad.
		John Brown's son, John Brown Jr, gave an interview to Oswald Garrison Villard, about how the family decided to join the campaign against slavery.
		After spending considerable time in setting forth, in impressive language, the hopeless condition of the slave, he asked who of us were willing to make common cause with him in doing all in our power to "break the jaws of the wicked and pluck the spoil out of his teeth".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASbrown.htm (2879 words)

	The Brookside Timeline
		White settlers are able to populate east-central Minnesota and adjacent Wisconsin following treaties with the Sioux and Chippewa.
		John Berry took a claim on the west side of Cedar Lake in April, and raised the first crop on the west side of the river.
		John Chamber received his patent from the U.S. Government on land that would later be part of the Henry Brown farm in 1874.
	www.jeanneandersen.net (18080 words)

	Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers
		John S. Carter ~ John has extensive experience working in maritime museums: for the last nine years he has been the President/CEO of Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.
		John is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in Stamford, Connecticut and New York with his wife, mystery writer Leah Ruth Robinson.
		Bob Wallstrom is a marine surveyor and earned the NAMS-CMS designation from the National Association of Marine Surveyors, one of only 400 to be so designated.
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		I, John Pulsipher, was born in the town of Spafford, Onondaga County, State of New York, North America, on the 17th of July, I827, this being the year that Joseph Smith got the plates which contained the Book of Mormon.
		John Benlow, Captain of the 1st 50 and William Burgess, Jr., Captain of the 1st I0.
		One time Joshua Terry, John Wakely and I were called to go to Fort Bridger to preach to the Indians there, but after traveling a long ways we found that they had moved on to another place.
	www.softcom.net /users/paulandsteph/zp/john.html (8705 words)

	Indian Man and Woman Eating, John White (c1585) \| \| guardian.co.uk Arts
		He went on Raleigh's 1585 voyage to found a colony at Roanoke, Virginia, and the first publication of his drawings in 1590 states that he was "sent thither speciallye and for the same purpose by the said Sir Walter Relegh".
		White returned in 1587 for a second attempt to colonise Roanoke - this time as governor.
		White's pictures are radical and unprecedented in their clarity.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /portrait/story/0,,952696,00.html (420 words)

	The WoodenBoat School - Brooklin, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John moved to Maine in 1982, taking a job at The Hinckley Co. He worked for a number of other Maine yards over the years, and kept things interesting by also working for a keyboard maker, a cabinetmaker, and a custom furniture builder.
		JOHN GANDY grew up on the oyster fishing fleet of Delaware Bay at a time when all of the oyster boats had been built as schooners and the newest vessel was built in 1929.
		JOHN KARBOTT spent most of his childhood along the beaches and waterfront of Plymouth, Massachusetts, watching commercial lobsterboats and occasionally catching a ride on one.
	www.thewoodenboatschool.com /facultystaff.html (11794 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Indian Man and Woman Eating, John White (c1585) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He went on Raleigh's 1585 voyage to found a colony at Roanoke, Virginia, and the first publication of his drawings in 1590 states that he was "sent thither speciallye and for the same purpose by the said Sir Walter Relegh".
		White's pictures are radical and unprecedented in their clarity.
		White undermines not just the European view of "cannibals" but also the Montaigne counter-myth of people innocent even of crops.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/portrait/story/0,11109,952696,00.html (436 words)

	NC Museum of History: History Highlights - North Carolina American Indian History Time Line
		Surveyor John Lawson, who began a thousand-mile journey through the colony at the end of 1700, publishes A New Voyage to Carolina.
		The Tuscarora are upset over the practices of white traders, the capture and enslavement of Indians by whites, and the continuing encroachment of settlers onto Tuscarora hunting grounds.
		June: White settlements in Watauga and South Carolina are raided by the Cherokee, allies of the British, who have promised to protect the Indians from encroachments by colonial borders.
	ncmuseumofhistory.org /nchh/amerindian.html (4206 words)

	National Park Service - Fort Raleigh
		Trained as a surveyor, White was also a skilled illustrator, and no stranger to the New World, having made drawings of Eskimos while on the Frobisher expedition to North America in 1577.
		White so gained the confidence of the villagers that he was able to quietly observe and record not only their ceremonies, but also their routine activities: fishing, canoe-making, farming, and eating (2).
		White’s maps of the Roanoke Island area (4) were for over 80 years the base for most European maps of the region.
	www.nps.gov /archive/fora/newworld.htm (517 words)

	White County, Tennessee, Genealogy
		White County was formed in 1806 from Smith and Jackson Counties.
		John had to fight the Cherokee Indians for the right to live on the land, for the Cherokee were not confined to the Cumberland Plateau until the 2nd Treaty of Holston in 1791.
		White County is in Middle Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, midway between Nashville and Knoxville, and covers an area of 377 square miles.
	www.tngenweb.org /white (1322 words)

	Artdaily.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
		John White returned from “Virginia” a year later with visions of Paradise, the perfect place for the English to settle in the New World.
		White and Raleigh made plans for a permanent colony of one hundred and fi fteen men, women, and children at the “Cittie of Raleigh” on the Chesapeake, and White was appointed Governor with twelve assistants.
		White was sent home to obtain assistance; when he finally returned in 1590 the colonists had disappeared and the legend of the “Lost Colony of Roanoke” was born.
	www.artdaily.com /index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23241 (961 words)

	Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1500-1649
		The murder in 1634 of Capt. John Stone, a disreputable English seaman and merchant, and of trader John Oldham on 20 July 1636, reportedly by Pequots, leads to reprisals against Pequot settlements.
		Boston clergyman John Wheelwright preaches a sermon supporting the ideas of Anne Hutchinson and her followers and is thereby sentenced to banishment on 12 November.
		To prevent the re-election of Governor Vane, who is sympathetic to Anne Hutchinson and her ideas, John Winthrop moves the voting to Newtown and thus is himself elected Governor of the colony.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/1650.htm (1033 words)

	Patawalonga and The Reedbeds, Holdfast Bay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The next party of white men to arrive had been sent from Rapid Bay by Colonel Light to establish a survey camp.
		William Henry Gray, John White and Cornelius Birdseye were the first European land owners of the sections on the reed beds.
		John White, surveyor and builder, owned the land on which the Torrens diverted south into the Patawalonga.
	users.senet.com.au /~hitek/holdfastdatasa/Pat.htm (1478 words)

	Microfilm Interloan Catalogue and Services
		The John Phenix family were farmers in Mono Township, Dufferin County, Ontario during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
		John White was a lawyer and the first Attorney-General of Upper Canada.
		The John White fonds (F 4448), consisting of a personal notebook kept by White between 1792 and 1797, recently has been microfilmed and is available on interlibrary loan.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/interloan/index.html (1873 words)

	A New World: England's First View of America at British Museum - Museums & Attractions - Museums & Attractions ...
		White’s fascinating pictures of the complex and sophisticated culture of the North Carolina Algonquin Indians and the landscapes, wildlife and plants of ‘Virginia’ (what we now call North Carolina was named by Raleigh for his queen) are the only surviving original visual record of this period of America’s history.
		White’s job was to produce visual records and maps in order to drum up investment and entice colonists prepared to found an English plantation.
		White was obliged to return to England to get assistance but once there he found that, because of the Spanish Armada, his relief ships were denied permission to sail.
	www.timeout.com /london/aroundtown/events/360131/a_new_world-england-s_first_view_of_america.html (669 words)

	Timeline 1575-1599 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John White, English artist and surveyor, was part of the expedition.
		Virginia Dare, born to the daughter of John White, became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil.
		Roanoke Gov. John White was a passenger in the fleet.
	timelines.ws /1575_1599.HTML (11007 words)

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