Gurnsey and Elizabeth (Mead) Belnap). She was a member of the Methodist Church a life member of the Foreign Missionary Society and an active member of the Young Woman's Christian Association. (See Belnap family.) Children:

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ALBERT B. Siggins", b. 1886 in Philadelphia; died the same year.

LIDIA B. Siggins", b. February 3, 1867, in Philadelphia; d. June 29, 1887, in Colby County, Kan.; m. in 1886, George W. Hyatt, of Whitehall, New York.

(834). EMMA SIGGINS, daughter of Benjamin Baird and Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins; married December 6, 1882, in Youngsville, Pennsylvania:

John Barber White, of Kansas City, Missouri.

JOHN BARBER WHITE.

Mr. White's lineage is traced from: Thomas White', first mentioned in Merriott, England where he was assessed in 1524, also in Whitecomb, parish of Martock where he bought land in 1537-8; the date of his death is unknown, but he died prior to 1549; his wife was Agnes Richards (widow Paul), of Aller.

RICHARD White', his son, was of Hillfarrence, his will was proved may 6, 1578.

ROBERT White, was of South Petherton, 1573, and was buried September 7, 1600.

ROBERT White', was of South Petherton, and was church-warden, succeeding his father in 1600; he died March 8, 1642, Chancery Proceedings show that he was the father of:

JOHN White, of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachu

setts, who was baptized in the "Old Church" in South Petherton, Somerset Co., England, March 7, 1602, married in Drayton Parish Somerset May 28, 1627 Joan West, who was baptized in the "Old Church" at Drayton, April 16, 1606, they lived for a time in Drayton, about 1638-9, they came with their family to America, they were at Salem in August 1639, and at Lancaster, May 1, 1653, where he died between March 10, and May 28, 1673.

JOSIAH White", born in Salem, now Wenham, Mass.; baptized June 4, 1643, in the First Church of Salem; married first: Mary Lewis, who died soon; he married second, November 28, 1678: Mary Rice, born in Sudbury, Mass., September 4, 1656; they lived in Lancaster where he was Commander of a garrison house on ye West Side Penicook River, called ye Neck, in 1704; he died November 11, 1714.

JOSIAH White', born in Lancaster, Mass., September 16, 1682; married June 26, 1706, Abigail Whitcomb born March 13, 1688; he was moderator, treasurer, representative, selectman, etc.; he died May 5, 1772; he had been deacon of the first church at Lancaster forty-three years.

JOSIAH Whites, born in Lancaster, Mass., January 3, 1714; married March 14, 1739, Deborah House; baptized in Scituate, Mass., December 16, 1722; they lived in the part of Lancaster which was set off as Leominster, where he built the first saw-mill and also "Ye Old Abbey", now standing on Lindel Avenue; he married second in Rockingham, Vt., September 16, 1779, Elizabeth, widow of David Pulsipher; he died September 1, 1806, and is buried near the old church in Rockingham.

His sons: Josiah, John, Samuel, Benjamin, Abijah, Asa, Luke and Abel, were all soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Abel being but seventeen years of age when he enlisted in 1777.

LUKE White", born in Leominster, Mass., December 8; baptized in the first church at Lancaster, December 11,

1757; went when a young man to Charlemont, Mass., and was one of the first settlers of the new town a part of which became Heath, in 1785; he married in Charlemont, November 30, 1782, Eunice White, daughter of his cousin David White; he enlisted February 1st, 1777, in the Continental Army and served until 1780; after the death of his wife he removed with his children to Richville, St. Lawrence County, New York, where he died March 17, 1837.

JOHN White1o, born in Heath, Mass., June 10, 1805; married June 7, 1831, Rebekah Barber born in Charlemont, Mass., January 16, 1807, daughter of Moses and Rebekah (Butler) Barber; he went with his father to St. Lawrence County, N. Y.; he was a member of the Episcopal Church, and was educated for the ministry, but did not follow that profession; after residing about twenty years in St. Lawrence and Ulster Counties he removed to Chautauqua County, N. Y., and was engaged in the mercantile business several years, going from there to Union City, Erie Co., Pa., where he bought a saw-mill which he ran two years and then returned to Chautauqua County, and bought a farm four miles south of Ashville. He died in Harmony Township, New York, May 23d., 1853; his widow married second, Stephen Messinger, who died in 1859; she died at "White's Mill", Carter County, Missouri, November 19, 1881.

JOHN Barber White11, born in Ellery Township, (near Jamestown), Chautauqua County, New York, December 8, 1847, was brought up on his father's farm, finished his education at the Jamestown Academy and Jamestown Union School and Collegiate Institute; became a school teacher at the age of nineteen and taught three years, removed in 1868 to Youngsville, Pa., where he engaged in the lumber business; in 1874 removed to Tidioute, where he was the owner of a mill and lumber yard, and also editor and owner of the Warren County News, returned in 1878 to Youngsville, where he continued in the lumber business, and served six years as president of the Board