Benjamin White
Benjamin White was a planter in Pittsylvania County, on the Virginia side of the North Carolina line. His birth and parents are not known. He was buying land on the south side of Sandy River by the late 1760s, when the county was new, and he was still buying and selling land there in the 1780s. In 1782 he bought a tract from John Man of Henry County for three thousand pounds in Virginia money.
His children were grown and married by 1811: Sally, the wife of John Parker; Rachel, the wife of William Bennett; John W. White, who died before his father; Molly, the wife of John Pearce; and Elizabeth, called Patsy, the wife of Stovall Keesee. Rachel and William Bennett sold land in Pittsylvania in 1801. Sally had left Virginia long before, following her husband to Georgia and then to Tennessee.
By 1811 he was married to Rebecah, a widow whose son Thomas Zachery was not yet of age.
On 15 January 1811 he made his will, "being Sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory." He lent "my beloved wife Rebecah White" all his land and goods for her life or widowhood. He left her son Thomas Zachery twenty five pounds at his coming of age, "provided he stays with his mother and conduct himself as a dutifull child." To each of his married children he left one dollar "together with what I have heretofore given": to "Sally Parker wife of John Parker," to Rachel Bennett, to the lawful heirs of John White, to Molly Pearce, and to Elizabeth, wife of Stovall Keesee. After Rebecah's death the rest of the estate went to his grandson John Pearce, the son of John Pearce. He named Zadock Pearce and George Adams his executors and signed by his mark.
He lived another seven years. The will was proved at the Pittsylvania court on 21 September 1818, and Zadock Pearce gave bond as executor. In June 1822 the court's commissioners settled his account. The sale of the estate had brought in about 145 dollars, the legatees had been paid "agreeable to will," and six dollars and fifty cents was left in the executor's hands.
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Cite: Heirology, "Benjamin White (d. 1818)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/benjamin-white-1818-600e1f.