Hugh White

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1733

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1812

Death Place: Whitestown

Affiliations: United States Government

Notes: At one time a quartermaster for the rebels in the Revolutionary War, but most famous for being the first settler of the Whitestown area in Oneida Country, where he arrived around 1784. In 1788, the state legislature officially recognized the town. Judge White was intimately involved in the affairs of his settlement, particularly its friendly relations with the neighboring Oneida.

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