Resolved White, age about 5, arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower with his parents William and Susanna and two servants. His brother Peregrine was born while the ship was at anchor off Cape Cod. Their father is a mystery. Of the William Whites known to be in Leiden, from which the Mayflower sailed, one was a woolcomber and the other a tobacco merchant. Neither sailed. Our William, and his two servants, died the first winter. The following spring his widow married (Governor) Edward Winslow. In 1647 Winslow wrote a pamphlet titled New England's Salamander Discovered, where the notorious and slanderous salamander was apparently William Vassall. Vassall was the merchant with whom in 1635 the brothers William and Gilbert Brooks had sailed on the Blessing from London (along with the Robert Lewis who did not make it to Virginia). Vassall was also the father of Judith, whom Resolved had married not long afterward.
Sources: Thomas, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations; Tolman, The Wheeler Family of Old Concord; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation; Mayflower Descendant, vol. 17; Plymouth Colony Records
generation no. 1
William White, died 21 February 1621, married Susanna, who married 2nd Edward Winslow.
generation no. 2
Resolved White, born 1615 in England, landed in 1620 at Plymouth Rock at age 5, served in King Philip's War of 1676, made freeman in Salem in 1680, died c 1687. Married (1) Judith Vassall, and (2) Abigail Lord in 1674.
generation no. 3
Elizabeth White, born 4 June 1652 in Scituate, died after 10 March 1712-13 in Concord. Married 17 July 1672 to Obadiah Wheeler II.
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