Benjamin White

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From the History of Winthrop, Maine:

Benjamin settled in East Winthrop in 1784 on the place occupied many years by Albert C. Carr. In 1783 he bought of Phebe Jewett, widow of Rev. David Jewett, a part of Lot, No. 12. In the militia he held commissions in the several grades from Ensign to Major. His land joined that of Joel White. He moved to Monmouth in 1805.


From the History of Monmouth, Maine - Vol II, by Harry A. Chochrane - 1894:

Major Benjamin White was born in Dedham, Mass. in 1760. He said he was a descendant of Peregrine White, and one of thirteen children. In 1783 he married Polly Fales of Walpole.
Soon after they removed to Winthrop, ME and took up a farm in the wilderness. Their house was built in the heart of the forest, and was so closely surrounded by evergreens that the good lady of the house - or cabin, could stand on her doorstep and pick a broom. Many were the lonely hours spent by this estimable lady during the first two years of her married life. Her only companion, while her husband was clearing the farm, was a small kitchen which she brought from her old home in Walpole. After two years, a daughter was born to them, and three years later a son. On the advent of these troublesome comforts, all loneliness disappeared. In 1805, the family moved to the Lyon District, in Monmouth, where they settled on the Sinclair place, where the remainder of Mr. White's days were spent.

Maj. White held, in an unusual degree, the respect of the people, and was, in consequence, raised to important military and civil positions. Perhaps the most important one was that of high Sheriff of Kennebec County, at a period when ability and desert were the factors that won. As incumbent of this office, he was called upon to discharge the disagreeable duties of the hangman at the execution of Sager, and was saved from the performance of this part by nothing but an attack of sickness. To a man of tender sensibilities, such an act would have been a terrible ordeal. He possessed a genial disposition and a great fondness for children, which was so thoroughly reciprocated that many of the children of the neighborhood would cry after him when he left them. Mrs. White was a devoted Christian, and her home was often the scene of gatherings for the praying women of the vicinity, many of whom would sometimes remain all night in prayer.

Benjamin married Mary (Polly) Fales on 2 Dec 1784 in Dedham Norfolk Mass. (Mary (Polly) Fales was born in 1762 in Walpole Norfolk Mass, died in 1843 in Monmnouth Kennebec ME and was buried Lyon Cemetery in Monmnouth Kennebec ME.)