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Resolved White


Resolved White (c.1615 – after September 19, 1687) was a passenger on the historic voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. In 1620 he accompanied his parents, Pilgrims William White and his wife Susanna, on the journey. He married Judith Vassall, daughter of the historic William Vassall, a founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Later in life White became a notable person of Plymouth Colony.

Resolved White was the eldest son of Mayflower Pilgrims William White and his wife Susanna. The Mayflower Society states that her last name is unknown. Resolved was believed to be about five years of age in late 1620, having been born in England about 1615. His mother Susanna was pregnant during the Mayflower voyage and gave birth to his brother Peregrine in late November 1620, while the ship was anchored at Cape Cod.

The Whites are believed to have boarded the Mayflower as part of the London merchant group, and not as members of the Leiden Holland religious movement. Evidence of the William White family coming to the Mayflower from England and not Holland comes from William Bradford’s Mayflower passenger list which has "Mr. William White" in his section for London merchants along with Mr. Christopher Martin, Mr. William Mullins, Stephen Hopkins, Richard Warren and John Billington. It is believed that if William White had been a member of the Leiden congregation, his name would have appeared in Bradford’s work for that section, but it does not. There is no evidence to associate William White and his family with Leiden, Holland. And regarding the various White family ancestries which erroneously place the William White family in them, the Mayflower Society states that “Little is known about William White.”


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