Reverend Rev John White, II

1575 - 1648  (73 years)

• Name	Rev John White  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	Reverend
  Suffix	II
  Birth	6 Jan 1575	Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Religion	Persuaded Charles I to grant a Royal Charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company for a new colony in North America, allowing nonconformist the liberty of conscience.
  Death	24 Jul 1648	Dorchester, Dorset, England   [1, 3]
  Burial	Dorchester, Dorset, England   [1]
  	(St Peter's Chapel)
  Person ID	I16192	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John White, I,   b. 1544, Newton, Nottinghamshire, England d. 30 Sep 1618, Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Isabel Elizabeth Bawle,   b. Apr 1552, Staffordshire, England d. 30 Sep 1601, Stanton, Staffordshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1570	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   [4]
  Family ID	F8793	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Jan 1575 - Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England Death - 24 Jul 1648 - Dorchester, Dorset, England Burial - - Dorchester, Dorset, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World

  _Rev John White John White (1575 – 21 Jul 1648) was an English clergyman and the rector of a parish in Dorchester, Dorset. He was instrumental in obtaining charters for the New England Company, and the Massachusetts Bay Company. White himself never sailed to America. About 1623 he interested himself in sending out a colony of Dorset men to settle in…

  
  

• Sources

  [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, John White II 1575-1648. Rev John White - Religious Figure. He is remembered, as a Puritan Englishman, for being a supporter of settling the “New World” of America in Massachusetts. Although he never came to Massachusetts himself, he arranged funding for the ships and settlers. His nephew, Thomas Gardner, Jr. was given charge of the first attempt in 1623. After several aborted attempts from failed crops, disease, and combative Native Americans between 1623 and 1626, he organized yet another forty colonists to sail from England on June 20, 1628 to Nahum Keike, which would later become Salem, Massachusetts. This time they were successful. This group later merged into the Massachusetts Bay Company by 1629. The Rev. White was the rector of St. Peters Church in Dorchester, Dorset and Holy Trinity in Dorchester, and known for his church involvements and civic leadership, hence considered the Patriarch of Dorchester. He wanted to stop the poverty caused by being uneducated, unemployed and widespread alcoholism. He had a vision of settling the “New World” living in a near-perfect English society with free schools, church-controlled alehouse, and a higher standard of living. He wanted the Puritans to have freedom of worship and be separated from the Church of England and Roman Catholics. For his attempts in settling Massachusetts, he was given the name “the Father of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.” He played a big part in selecting those who would govern this new colony. On May 11, 1629, three more ships with 300 carefully-chosen colonists and two ministers left England for the “New World.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18694/john_white [S1751] Ancestry.com, Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2013;), Reference Number: DRO 34; Archive Roll: M95. Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Reference Number: DRO 34; Archive Roll: M95 [S1718] Ancestry.com, Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;). Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary [S984] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2003;).