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Thank you so much for this. I got the info about Patrick White being transported as a convict in 1753 only from another posting, and had not verified it. I believe that she said she was working from memory; in Cavaliers & Pioneers, he is indeed listed by someone claiming a headright for his transport, but it wasn't Thomas Lambert!
In the introduction to the book, it notes that headrights were often claimed for people who were just traveling and weren't really being "transported" again. It also notes that headrights weren't always claimed at the same time a person was transported.I'm not sure what was going on, but since Thomas Lambert wasn't the person named, I'm thinking the previous poster was referring to the same info you have and just made a mistake in memory (maybe because she saw the same Cavaliers & Pioneers entry I saw).
Where did the 1648 date come from? That would be interesting to know, because I found out there was an old Anglo-Norman Irish family named White that was peppered with "Patricks." The Anglo-Norman nobility was crushed by Cromwell in 1649, and their lands were confiscated. Many, many Irish were transported as either "convicts" or "indentured servants" at the time, often to Barbados.A lot of them were really white slaves and didn't survive.
I even found an undocumented letter from the early 1900s written by a descendant of that family who stayed in Great Britain, describing how the family's castle was besieged by Cromwell and all the inhabitants were massacreed. It said only two brothers survived because they were on the Continent in the French army - one was named Patrick.
Since Virginia was full of Royalist sympathizers and was a safe haven for fugitive "Cavaliers," it made sense to me that somebody brought that Patrick White over. But 1648 is a year too early! So I don't know.
But what I found about the first Patrick White over here intrigued me and kind of supported the hypothesis, because it was clear he landed on his feet. He was considered one of the ringleaders of Culpepper's Rebellion a few years later, and the charges brought against him described him as a "known disturber of government" or something like that, which supports the idea that he got in trouble with Cromwell.
He and his family seemed to be running with some prominent people. For example, I have seen reference to Lydia Church's father Joshua Church as a member of the House of Burgesses, so it seems unlikely the Whites were "of the meaner sort," as the servants and slaves were described.
Also, I saw a list of early passengers from Ireland that gave Patrick White as in transit in 1653. I don't remember the source.
He could well have been an indentured servant, though, because the records show some were well educated and came over and worked as tutors, etc. If he had "connections," as well, it wouldn't hurt.
Sorry this is so long, but I got kind of interested in the guy and I love the history, not the meticulous construction of a giant database of names. He reminds me of the White menfolk at my family reunion! I call them the "good old boy" branch of the family, because they are adventurers through and through who are good hearted but like to drink, fight and chase women.
The funny thing is I still can't figure out for sure if all those Patrick Whites are related to all my Patrick Whites. Of the two Patrick Whites in the Carolinas in the 1790 census, one is in Currituck County and one is way out on the frontier. I claim the guy on the frontier,and I suspect the Currituck County Patrick is the one who was a "major merchant" in Petersburg, Va., and writing letters to Thomas Jefferson.
But were they connected? That's what I can't figure out. My Patrick may even have been born "on the wrong side of the blanket," so to speak, if the prominent Patrick was earlier involved in the Indian trade - which he probably was, if he was a merchant at that time. It was common to take an Indian wife to cement the trade relationship, and sometimes the white wife even knew about it! Or my Patrick could have been on the frontier because he was a relation working for the Petersburg Patrick. Or it could all be a coincidence, and my Patrick came down with the
Scots-Irish. I haven't ruled that theory out, either.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the info. Any more you have could be very helpful, particularly about where all these people settled. By 1800 there were a Solomon White and a Lydia White in Pendleton District, and names do seem to be repeated over and over again in families.
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