When Abigail White was born in 1661, in Southampton, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John White, was 71 and her mother, Ann Cooper, was 42. She married Abraham Howell on 19 October 1682, in Southampton, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 19 June 1688, in her hometown, at the age of 27, and was buried in Old Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America.
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After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
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