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John White was an English indentured servant, who supplied beef to troops during the American Revolution.[1] He was among the early settlers of the Virginia Piedmont and received 235 acres from King George on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Swift Run Gap in Virginia.[2][3] The grant was in exchange for bringing four indentured servants to the Colony from Great Britain. He owned 1,000 acres and a tobacco plantation in the part of Orange County, Virginia, that is today Greene County, near the Rapidan River.[4][5]

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  1. ^ Abercrombie & Slatten, Virginia Revolutionary War Public Claims, Vol 2, p. 747
  2. ^ 1739 Grant: Land Office Patents No. 18, 1738-1739, p. 305 (Reel 16). Part of the land today is in western Rockingham County and eastern Greene County, south of the Swift Run and north of the Roach and Lynch Rivers.
  3. ^ Ekirch, A. Roger, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775, p. 245.
  4. ^ Scott, William Wallace. A History of Orange County, Virginia. Richmond: Everrett Waddey County, 1907, p. 237.
  5. ^ Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988.

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  1. ^ Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action, the Men who Constitute the Bone and Sinew of American Prosperity and Life. United States, B.F. Johnson, 1922, p. 177.