When James White Sr was born on 16 April 1705, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John White , II, was 42 and his mother, Lydia Gilman, was 36. He married Abigail Peasley on 5 April 1728, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 30 May 1788, in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 83.