Memoir of Hon Daniel Appleton White Author:James Walker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIR HON. DANIEL APPLETON WHITE. William White came to this country from Norfolk County, Eng., in 1635; establishing himself first at Ipswich, afterwards... more » at Newbury, and finally at Haverhill. He was present at the purchase of the land of the last-mentioned town from the Indians; and his name appears as one of the grantees on the deed of sale, bearing date Nov. 15, 1642. From him has descended a numerous posterity, connected by marriage with some of the leading families in New England, and many of them noted in their day for character and influence. Daniel Appleton White, a sketch of whose life we are about to write, was of this lineage, in the sixth generation. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White, originally of Haverhill, had removed to Methuen about four years before his birth, which took place June 7, 1776. He was the eleventh in a family of seventeen children, six of whom were by a former mother, and thirteen of whom lived to have families of their own. The father was a farmer in easy circumstances, well connected and hospitable, — a good representative of the New- England country gentleman of that time. His house stood upon a broad plain, nearly equidistant from the Merrimack on the south, and the Spicket on the north. His farm, reaching from river to river, consisted of nearly three hundred acres; presenting a great variety of rural scenery, and affording more than usual opportunity for rural sports. All is now changed; for this part of Methuen has become the centre of the new manufacturing city of Lawrence. But we speak of things as they were, when the subject of this Memoir was growing up into life. In a manuscript account of his early days, prepared by himself some years before his death, for the use of his children, he says of this period, — " ...« less