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Descendants of Moses White, Jr.
Generation No. 1
1. MOSES4 WHITE, JR. (MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born 1725 in Hanover County, VA, and died June
4, 1783 in Rowan County, NC. He married (1) MARY MCCONNELL. She was born 1730. He married (2)
ELEANOR.
Children of MOSES WHITE and MARY MCCONNELL are:
i. MOSES5 WHITE III.
ii. PENELOPE WHITE.
iii. MARGARET WHITE.
iv. ELEANOR WHITE.
v. CATHERINE WHITE.
2. vi. SARAH WHITE, b. Hanover County, VA.
vii. MARY WHITE.
viii. ELIZABETH WHITE.
ix. JEAN WHITE.
3. x. JOHN WHITE.
xi. DAVID WHITE.
4. xii. WILLIAM WHITE, b. Hanover County, VA.
5. xiii. GENERAL JAMES WHITE, b. August 8, 1747, Rowan County, NC; d. August 14, 1822, Knox County,
TN.
Generation No. 2
2. SARAH5 WHITE (MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born in Hanover County, VA. She married
JOSEPH LAWSON WILSON.
Child of SARAH WHITE and JOSEPH WILSON is:
i. SARAH ALMIRA6 WILSON.
3. JOHN5 WHITE (MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) He married CELIA CERENE COLLETT.
Child of JOHN WHITE and CELIA COLLETT is:
6. i. JONAS6 WHITE.
4. WILLIAM5 WHITE (MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born in Hanover County, VA. He married
ELIZABETH RUSSELL.
Children of WILLIAM WHITE and ELIZABETH RUSSELL are:
i. JOSEPH6 WHITE.
ii. CHRISTINA WHITE.
iii. ANNE THOMAS WHITE.
5. GENERAL JAMES5 WHITE (MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born August 8, 1747 in Rowan
County, NC, and died August 14, 1822 in Knox County, TN. He married MARY LAWSON April 14, 1770
in Rowan County, NC, daughter of HUGH LAWSON. She was born 1742, and died March 10, 1819.
Notes for GENERAL JAMES WHITE:
"Revolutionary hero and the founder of Knoxville General James White had very strong Scotch-Irish
blood in his veins. His people - of the Campbell clan - had originally lived at Inverarary and
Lochgoilhead in Argyllshire on the western lowlands of Scotland and it was his grandfather Moses White
who moved to County Londondery with his wife Mary Campbell in the later part of the 17th century.
They had seven children, one of them Moses White, Jr. (James White's father), who was to leave Ireland
in 1741 and settle in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Moses White, Jr. married Mary McConnell and
they moved to Iredell (Rowan County) in North Carolina. James was the fourth of their six children. He
married Mary Lawson from North Carolina and they had three sons and four daughters.
In the Revolutionary War James White captained the North Carolina militia and it was this service which
entitled him to a grant of land which he eventually was to select along the banks of the Holston River,
now the Tennessee River, which flows through Knoxville. However, before the final settlement he spent
several years in Virginia and was a member of the general assembly of the state of Franklin which met in
Jonesboro and was speaker of the senate.
When White and his family first moved to the Holston River basin in 1785 his home was a modest log
cabin with an adjoining turnip patch, but a year later he had a two-story blockhouse built, to be known as
White's Fort. Settlers' homes needed to be well fortified in those days due to the threats from marauding
Cherokee Indians and White's Fort cam under attack on numerous occasions.
White became a highly influential man in this part of the frontier: in 1789 he was a representative from
Hawkins County in the legislature of North Carolina and was a member of the convention which ratified
the constitution of the United States.
In 1790, during the organization of the territory of the United States south of the Ohio River by Governor
William Blount, White was appointed Major of the militia and justice of the peace of Hawkins County.
He was involved with Blount in talks with the Cherokee Indians which led to the signing of the Holston
Treaty on July 2, 1791. This authorized the purchase of all the lands of present-day Knoxville and the
surrounding Knox County from the Indians - an area of some 1,260 square miles.
In October, 1791, to White, was given the task of laying out Knoxville as a proper settlement and it was
agreed to name it in honor of General Henry Knox, the Secretary of War, a man of County Down
pedigree. Knoxville was then in a thicket of brushwood and grapevines, except a small portion in front of
the river where all the business was done.
The original 64 lots of land, arranged by White's son-in-law and surveyor Charles McClung, were chosen
by lottery at a price of eight dollars for each half-acre. Demand by the incoming settlers was brisk - the
great city of Knoxville was indeed taking shape with an original 10 streets.
White was promoted to lieutenant colonel commandant in the militia and it was his obvious gifts of
sympathy, understanding, patience, and tact which earned him the chairmanship of the court of pleas and
quarter sessions, the body appointed to fairly monitor the allocation of land lots.
The conflict between the impetuous settlers and the Indian community continued, but White succeeded in
keeping a cool head and built up a trust with the Indian tribesmen. His half-sister, wife of Joseph Wilson,
and her children were captured by Creek Indians in Sumner County in middle Tennessee, but after great
effort, White succeeded in ransoming all of them. An Indian chief said that "the Great Spirit" aided in the
rescue of the last little Wilson girl because of James White's goodness.
In another incident, Governor Blount despatched James White to disperse a large force of settlers ready to
march upon Indian settlements and it took much dialogue before the tension was defused. White did help
to thwart attacks on Knoxville by the Cherokee and Creek tribes - he stood by the defense of his people at
all times.
White later became a brigadier general in the militia and he helped negotiate the treaty with the
Cherokees whereby the Indians received 5,000 dollars and an annuity of 1,000 dollars for their lands. In
the Creek War he led 850 men from Tennessee to Alabama to help Andrew Jackson in the fight against
the Indians.
James White was a staunch Presbyterian and was a founding elder of Lebanon in the Fork Presbyterian
Church. the first church organized in the Knoxville region. He was also a founding elder of First
Knoxville Presbyterian Church, giving over his turnip patch for the Church building and the adjoining
cemetery. He also gave the land for the first non-sectarian college west of the Appalachians, Blount
College. Blount College later became the University of Tennessee, one of the nation's oldest institutions
of higher education.
He was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives and when Tennessee was being prepared for
admission into the Union as a state he was the Knox County member of the constitutional convention. He
served several terms as state senator and senate speaker.
White and his wife Mary are buried in the First Presbyterian cemetery and a tribute pens the appropriate
words: "Of James White as a soldier, citizen, official, and Christian nothing needs to be added to the bare
record of his services to his home, country, and church."
The Knoxville Register of August 21, 1821, in its obituary of General James White, said that in civil,
military, and ecclesiastical concerns he had taken a distinguished part. "He has acquitted himself with
fidelity and usefulness, in the numerous public functions in which he has been called upon to act. This
town, particularly, has cause to remember him with gratitude and veneration. He was its founder and
patron and ever watched over its interests with the affection of a parent."
Resource: The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee, by Billy Kennedy.
Children of JAMES WHITE and MARY LAWSON are:
7. i. MARGARET6 WHITE, b. April 8, 1771; d. August 27, 1827.
8. ii. HUGH LAWSON WHITE, b. October 30, 1773, Rowan County, NC; d. April 10, 1840.
9. iii. MOSES WHITE, b. April 22, 1775.
iv. ANDREW WHITE, b. May 9, 1779, Washington County, TN.
v. MARY MCCONNELL WHITE, b. November 11, 1782, Knox County, TN; m. (1) F. MAY; m. (2) JOHN
OVERTON.
vi. CYNTHIA BERRY WHITE, b. April 7, 1786, Knox County, TN; d. August 11, 1855; m. THOMAS A.
SMITH, September 17, 1807, Knox County, TN.
vii. MELINDA WHITE, b. February 15, 1789; d. March 2, 1838; m. JOHN WILLIAMS.
Generation No. 3
6. JONAS6 WHITE (JOHN5, MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) He married SARAH PERKINS.
Child of JONAS WHITE and SARAH PERKINS is:
i. JESSE7 WHITE, m. ISABELLA SHERRILL.
7. MARGARET6 WHITE (JAMES5, MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born April 8, 1771, and died
August 27, 1827. She married CHARLES MCCLUNG, son of MATTHEW MCCLUNG and MARTHA
CUNNINGHAM. He was born May 13, 1761 in Lancaster, PA, and died August 19, 1830 in Harrisburg,
KY.
Notes for CHARLES MCCLUNG:
Surveyor, merchant, and lawyer Charles McClung was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of
Matthew McClung, a native of the North of Ireland, and wife Martha Cunningham. Charles spent most
of his early life working on his father's farm and was engaged in business in Philadelphia for a time. But
like his contemporaries he found the appeal of the frontier compelling and after moving through the
Shenandoah Valley in Virginia he came upon White's Fort, on the present site in the city of Knoxville.
City founder James White was a Presbyterian kinsman and McClung married his eldest daughter
Margaret and with his father-in-law really set about developing the Holston River basin which
encompassed Knoxville. The fact that the streets of Knoxville were named after those in Philadelphia was
due to McClung's influence as the city's first surveyor and from 1792 to 1834 he held the clerkship of the
first Knox County court. He was a member of the convention which met in Knoxville in 1796 to form the
constitution for the new state of Tennessee and along with Revolutionary War hero William Blount
drafted the constitution.
McClung, a major in the cavalry regiment for the territory, was also one of Knoxville's leading
businessmen, right up until his death. He was described as a man of fine personal appearance and of an
able and discriminating mind. Many of Knoxville's most distinguished citizens were descended from
Charles McClung.
Calvin Morgan McClung (1855-1919) was a leading businessman and collector of local historical
materials. The grandson of Charles McClung, Judge Hugh Lawson White (1858-1936) served as a justice
in the Tennessee Supreme Court an chancellor of the chancery division of Knox County. He was a trustee
of the University of Tennessee for 23 years, as his father and grandfather had been.
Resource: The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee, by Billy Kennedy.
Children of MARGARET WHITE and CHARLES MCCLUNG are:
i. POLLY LAWSON7 MCCLUNG, b. May 28, 1792; m. THOMAS L. WILLIAMS, August 5, 1811, Knox
County, TN.
ii. HUGH M. MCCLUNG, b. May 22, 1794, Knox County, TN.
iii. MATTHEW MCCLUNG, b. October 10, 1795.
iv. JAMES WHITE MCCLUNG, b. June 6, 1798.
v. CHARLES MCCLUNG, JR., b. July 28, 1800.
vi. BETSY JONES MCCLUNG, b. May 6, 1803; d. April 8, 1829.
vii. MARTHA MCCLUNG, b. June 18, 1805.
viii. HUGH LAWSON MCCLUNG, b. May 26, 1811.
Notes for HUGH LAWSON MCCLUNG:
Served as a justice in the Tennessee supreme court and chancellor of the chancery division of Knox
County. He was a trustee of the University of Tennessee for 23 years, as his father and grandfather
had been.
ix. ANN MALINDA MCCLUNG, b. October 26, 1812.
8. HUGH LAWSON6 WHITE (JAMES5, MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born October 30, 1773 in
Rowan County, NC, and died April 10, 1840. He married ELIZABETH MOORE CARRICK December 14,
1789 in Knox County, TN, daughter of REV. SAMUEL CARRICK.
Notes for HUGH LAWSON WHITE:
American political leader, b. Iredell County., N.C. He moved (1787) to what is now East Tennessee and
served in the wars against the Creek and Cherokee. He was (1793) secretary to Gov. William Blount,
studied law in Lancaster, Ohio, and began (1796) practice in Knoxville, Tenn. He held various judicial
offices in Tennessee and was a state senator (1807-9, 1817-25) before becoming a U.S. Senator in 1825.
A supporter of Andrew Jackson and his policies, he split with the President when Jackson backed Martin
Van Buren for President. White, in protest, ran (1836) for the presidency as a Whig party candidate and
secured the electoral votes of Tennessee and Georgia. He resigned (1840) from the U.S. Senate after he
fought, in opposition to the instructions of the Tennessee legislature, Van Buren's plan for the
Independent Treasury System.
WHITE, Hugh Lawson, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Iredell County, N.C., October 30, 1773; moved
with his parents in 1785 to that part of North Carolina which now is Knox County, Tenn.; participated in
an expedition against the Cherokees around 1793; pursued classical studies in Philadelphia, Pa., and
studied law in Lancaster, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice in Knoxville,
Tenn.; judge of the State superior court 1801-1807; member, State senate 1807-1809; appointed United
States district attorney in 1808; judge of the State supreme court 1809-1815; president of the State bank;
member, State senate 1817-1825; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Andrew Jackson; reelected in 1829 and 1835, as a Jacksonian, and served from October 28,
1825, to January 13, 1840, when he resigned because he could not conscientiously obey the instructions of
his constituents; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-second and
Twenty-third Congresses; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twentieth through Twenty-sixth
Congresses); died in Knoxville, Tenn., April 10, 1840; interment in First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
More About HUGH LAWSON WHITE:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, TN
Children of HUGH WHITE and ELIZABETH CARRICK are:
i. CHARLES ANDREW CARRICK7 WHITE, b. December 22, 1797, Knox County, TN; d. January 18,
1826.
ii. BETSY MOON WHITE, b. August 23, 1803, Knox County, TN; d. November 12, 1828.
iii. JAMES MOON MAY WHITE, b. October 23, 1803, Knox County, TN; d. 1828, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, AL.
More About JAMES MOON MAY WHITE:
Burial: November 16, 1828
iv. POLLY LAWSON WHITE, b. October 16, 1805, Knox County, TN; d. May 13, 1828.
v. LUCINDA BLOUNT WHITE, b. September 19, 1807, Knox County, TN; d. March 20, 1827.
vi. PEGGY ANN WHITE, b. November 17, 1809; d. August 25, 1891.
vii. CYNTHIA WILLIAMS WHITE, b. July 29, 1812, Knox County, TN; d. January 3, 1829, Knox County,
TN.
viii. MALINDA MCDOWELL WHITE, b. May 21, 1815, Knox County, TN; d. April 3, 1830, Knox County,
TN.
ix. HUGH LAWSON WHITE, JR., b. August 16, 1818, Knox County, TN; d. January 20, 1919, Knox
County, TN.
x. ISABELLA HARVEY WHITE, b. May 19, 1820, Knox County, TN.
xi. SAMUEL DAVIS CARRICK WHITE, b. May 26, 1825, Knox County, TN; d. 1860.
Notes for SAMUEL DAVIS CARRICK WHITE:
Mayor of Knoxville, TN in 1857.
9. MOSES6 WHITE (JAMES5, MOSES4, MOSES3, HUGH2, ADAM1) was born April 22, 1775. He married
ISABELLA MCNUTT.
Child of MOSES WHITE and ISABELLA MCNUTT is:
i. HUGH ALEXANDER MCNUTT7 WHITE.
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