Thomas White
BIRTH
Mar 19, 1739
Kilkenny, Ireland
DEATH
September 13, 1820
near Robertsdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.
FAMILY
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White, Thomas
(1739-1820)
Thomas White was an Irish-born tailor, Patriot, and reputed participant in the Boston Tea Party. He joined the Sons of Liberty, helped resist British taxation, and later served in the Revolutionary War under George Washington.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Home of Judge Thomas White Marker | 1355 Whiteleysburg Rd, Harrington, DE 19952 | MARKER |
DIED:
near Robertsdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Sep 13, 1820
Thomas White was born on Mar 19, 1739 in Kilkenny, Ireland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas White with work or public activity as a soldier, tailor. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Thomas White died on Sep 13, 1820. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.