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COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES

N. J., and have a crcdilable Revolutionary war record. Captain Richardson, one of the ancestors o f M r. White in the maternal line, w as com­ missioned by the king of Hngbnd to take charge o f Crown lands in and near Pliiladelphia. hiis daughter T acy married Thomas Vanderslice, and thcir son Joscph married Rebecca Hiester, daughter o f Capt. John Ilicster, who purchased large tracts of land near the intersection o f B ig and Little Fishing crccks in 1803. In i8 a j his son-in-law, Joseph Vanderslice, came with his fam ily from Pottstown and settled on this land, building a log house where W. P. Vanderslice now lives. The war and political records o f Pennsyl­ vania sliow (hat the H icstcr and Vanderslice families took an active part in shaping the early history of the Commonwealth. John Hiester V’andcrslicc, son o f Joseph, w as bom in Chester county. Pa., and married Catherine Mclick, a native o f Columbia county, whose fam ily came to this section from New Jersey. M r. and M rs. John H iester Vanderslice arc buried in the Vanderslice graveyard in Hem­ lock township, this county. They were the p a rw ilso f M rs. T acy E (Vanderslice) W hile. Peter White, great-grandfather o f Hicstcr Vanderslice White, settled in Columbia county previous to the year 1800, first in the vicinity o f Orangeville, whence he moved about 1806 (u Scott township, in the ncighlrarhood o f I.ight Street. H e was a farmer, and bought the farm on the edge o f lhal village in recent years owned by the llartm aiis. H e passed the rest of his life there, he and his w ife both dying on that place, and they are buried at Light Street. H is death occurred when he w as comparatively a young nun. and his widow, Elizabeth (B rittain ), survived some twenty years. They had a family o f thirteen children, o f whom wc have the following record: H arry, the last surviving member of the family, w as a farmer, residing in Indiana; Mar)- Maud married a M r. Garrison, a farmer o f Salem township, Luzcm c county; Zebeth, who was a farm er, resided in M ichigan; John, a farm er, w as a resident o f Richland county, O h io: Joseph n urried L y d u Ann Robbins; William w as a farm e r: Samuel followed agri­ cultural pursuits in Richland county. O hio; Peter also nude his home in Richland county, O hio; Catherine was the w ife o f Samuel O nun. who was a farm er in Mount Pleasant township, Columbia county; Sarah w as the w ife o f Samuel Mclick, also a farm er o f Mount Pleasant township; Elizabeth nurried a Mr. Emerson, a farm er o f Ind ian a; Isaac

was a fam ier and lime burner in Scott town­ sh ip; H enry w as a resident o f Indiana. William White, son o f Peter, w as bora in 1803 in what is now Orange township, Co­ lumbia county, and lived with his parents un­ til his nurriage. H e (hen b o ^ h t a farm about a mile north o f Light Street, partly cleared and improved to some extent. A fter about twcnty-nvc years' residence there he imught another farm, adjoining his first pur­ chase. and removing to that p b ce passed the remainder o f his life there, dying Feb. 18, 1879. H e erected new buildings on this prop­ erty. H is holdings comprised fivd farms. Mr. White w as n urried in Columbia county to Jan e Mc.Murtrie, who was bom near Belviderc, in W arren county. N . J .. daughter of Abraham M cM urtric, who died in that State, a s did also his w ife; he followed fanning there until the b tter part o f his life, when he cng.agcd in milling. T w elve children were born to Mr. and M rs. William W hite, of whom Elizabeth M . married J . D. Mclick, of Muncy. Pa., a traveling salcsn u n : M ary n u r­ ried George Conner and lived in Centre town­ ship, Columbia county; John M cM urtric is mentioned lielow: .Abram M. settled in Wood county. O h io; Isaiah S ., in Orange township, Colum bb county; Samantha .A. n u rried Peter E van s and lived near Rupert. Columbia cou n ty; W. Pierce is living in Alm cdia, Co­ lumbia Co.. P a .; Anna M argaret w as the widow o f .Alcn V an Licw, and died at Light S tre e t; M. Alvarctta married A. P. H ow ell: 5 ra h Jan e, deceased, w as the w ife o f H ow ard u G rim es: the other two were deceased before 1887. The ntother o f this fam ily passed aw ay in 1871. John M c>furtric White was bom Dec. 30. 1833. in Orange township, Columbia county, was reared there, and remained at home with his parents until over twenty-three years old. .After that he w as occupied for several years in the cultivation o f one of his father's farms, in 1868 buying the farm in Centre township, near Light Street, to which he moved three years later. A t the time he purchased the pbce there w as a tannery in operation there, and he rented the same for several years and then sold it. H is attention during his active years w as given to farming, in which he H*as very successful. H e has held various offices in his township, in politics supporting the Democratic party. H e and his w ife, who now live at Nescopeck. Pa., belong to the Pres­ byterian Church. On Feb. 10, 1857. M r. W hite married Tacy E. A'anderslicc, who was bora in Columbia