Beloved Husband of Martha Davis, He was the son of John White and Elizabeth Davenport White, and grandson of William White and Elizabeth Bartlett.
James Bartlett White and family
Now to the discussion of Bartlett White and Martha Diggs Davis White. In the early 1830's, Bartlett bought what we now think of as the White Family home – Whitehaven – which is located on Mobjack Bay in the White's Neck area of Mathews County, and across a creek from the village of Mobjack. The home was owned in 1981 by Ralph and Charlotte Champney who graciously allowed me to visit and photograph the gravestones in the family cemetery that year. When I revisited Whitehaven in April 2000, I was saddened by its condition. The Champneys had sold the home a few years before, due to poor health, and it has neither been lived in nor kept up since. The property is overgrown (ivy growing across the interior walls), the floors are sagging and the wonderful screened porch is torn and obscured by shrubbery that is out of control.
Before Bartlett bought the home, it belonged to Harriett Miller Hudgins, widow of Jack Hudgins -- Martha Diggs Davis White's maternal uncle, who was lost at sea. Mrs. Hudgins, it is said, was very extravagant and ran up a grocery bill so high at Mr. Richard "Dick" Foster's store, that he eventually took over the house and land and sold it to Bartlett for $400.00! The rest of the land – the long row cut — was purchased from Mr. Dudley White, a cousin, -- and the swampland –- had belonged to Diggs Davis who left it to his daughter, Martha (Bartlett's, wife.)
Bartlett brought his mother, father, two younger sisters (Sally and Frances) and maternal grandmother (Mary Davenport Davis) to live with them at Whitehaven. It was then that the "old house" on Pepper Creek "was broken up". His father, John White, was the first of the White family to be buried at Whitehaven, having died in June of 1934. Whitehaven remained in the White Family for more that one hundred thirty years. The original house was burned "by Yankees" during the Civil War. Only part of the kitchen, an out building at the time of the burning, remains incorporated in the present structure.
It was probably about 1834 that Bartlett married Martha Diggs Davis, --he being 24 and she only 16 – at "Mally Ransome's present home, which belonged to Capt. Prichard (Miss Jestina's father, Flora's grandfather)." As mentioned in the Anderton section, Martha was the daughter of Diggs Davis and Maria Hudgins. She was first cousin to Elizabeth Davis who married Benjamin Anderton in the Anderton chapter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Armistead Davis, Sr., brother to Diggs/Degge/Digges Davis . Diggs and Armistead were the sons of Isaac Davis and Rebecca Armistead (daughter of Robert Armistead and Catherine Gwathmey, married in 1743). Other siblings included twin girls, Catherine Davis (named after Rebecca's mother), who married a Jarvis and Hillegan Davis (named after Isaac's mother), Polly Davis, who married a Spratt, and Frances Davis, who married a Borum. Both brothers, Armistead and Diggs Davis, served during the War of 1812 – Armistead as a private and Diggs as a sergeant in Capt. Henry Digges Company, 61st Regiment of the Virginia Militia, Mathews County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Levin Gayle . It is thought that Isaac was the son of Thomas Davis and Hillegan Diggs/Degge/Digges and brother to Dorothy Davis who married William White, brother to John White. Once again the relationships get complicated.
Martha's mother, Maria (pronounced Mariah) Hudgins Davis was the daughter of Robert Hudgins (1759-1820) and Ann Burton (1765-1825). Robert was a Revolutionary War veteran – a private in Capt. Henry Garnett's Company, 2nd Regiment, Virginia troops. Maria's siblings included Jack Hudgins, who married Harriett Miller (of Whitehaven fame) of Norfolk, and Sallie Hudgins, who married Isaac Rose of Portsmouth. Maria Hudgins married Diggs Davis and had two daughters, Martha Diggs Davis and Mary Davis, who died of scarlet fever at age 10. Diggs, apparently, died relatively young and Maria married second, Matt Miller, a farmer from Gloucester and had one son, Dr. Matthias Miller.
Bartlett was a waterman for at least part of his adulthood – he was referred to as Capt. Bartlett and listed as being a "mariner" in the 1850 census. By the 1860 census, he was listed as a farmer, with a real estate value of $1500, a personal worth of $3500. And the owner of five slaves – four females and one male. He is enumerated in the 1850 Mathews County Tax list as owning 36.6 acres, 6 miles southwest of Mathews Courthouse – which is Whitehaven.
Bartlett and Martha raised seven children to adulthood. They themselves lived to be quite elderly, with Martha dying of "kidney disease" in 1891 at age 74 and Bartlett in 1896 at age 86 of "dropsy" and "old age". As stated above, they were originally buried at Whitehaven but later moved to Providence Cemetery at Cardinal.∼Husband of Martha Davis
James Bartlett White and family
Now to the discussion of Bartlett White and Martha Diggs Davis White. In the early 1830's, Bartlett bought what we now think of as the White Family home – Whitehaven – which is located on Mobjack Bay in the White's Neck area of Mathews County, and across a creek from the village of Mobjack. The home was owned in 1981 by Ralph and Charlotte Champney who graciously allowed me to visit and photograph the gravestones in the family cemetery that year. When I revisited Whitehaven in April 2000, I was saddened by its condition. The Champneys had sold the home a few years before, due to poor health, and it has neither been lived in nor kept up since. The property is overgrown (ivy growing across the interior walls), the floors are sagging and the wonderful screened porch is torn and obscured by shrubbery that is out of control.
Before Bartlett bought the home, it belonged to Harriett Miller Hudgins, widow of Jack Hudgins -- Martha Diggs Davis White's maternal uncle, who was lost at sea. Mrs. Hudgins, it is said, was very extravagant and ran up a grocery bill so high at Mr. Richard "Dick" Foster's store, that he eventually took over the house and land and sold it to Bartlett for $400.00! The rest of the land – the long row cut — was purchased from Mr. Dudley White, a cousin, -- and the swampland –- had belonged to Diggs Davis who left it to his daughter, Martha (Bartlett's, wife.)
Bartlett brought his mother, father, two younger sisters (Sally and Frances) and maternal grandmother (Mary Davenport Davis) to live with them at Whitehaven. It was then that the "old house" on Pepper Creek "was broken up". His father, John White, was the first of the White family to be buried at Whitehaven, having died in June of 1934. Whitehaven remained in the White Family for more that one hundred thirty years. The original house was burned "by Yankees" during the Civil War. Only part of the kitchen, an out building at the time of the burning, remains incorporated in the present structure.
It was probably about 1834 that Bartlett married Martha Diggs Davis, --he being 24 and she only 16 – at "Mally Ransome's present home, which belonged to Capt. Prichard (Miss Jestina's father, Flora's grandfather)." As mentioned in the Anderton section, Martha was the daughter of Diggs Davis and Maria Hudgins. She was first cousin to Elizabeth Davis who married Benjamin Anderton in the Anderton chapter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Armistead Davis, Sr., brother to Diggs/Degge/Digges Davis . Diggs and Armistead were the sons of Isaac Davis and Rebecca Armistead (daughter of Robert Armistead and Catherine Gwathmey, married in 1743). Other siblings included twin girls, Catherine Davis (named after Rebecca's mother), who married a Jarvis and Hillegan Davis (named after Isaac's mother), Polly Davis, who married a Spratt, and Frances Davis, who married a Borum. Both brothers, Armistead and Diggs Davis, served during the War of 1812 – Armistead as a private and Diggs as a sergeant in Capt. Henry Digges Company, 61st Regiment of the Virginia Militia, Mathews County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Levin Gayle . It is thought that Isaac was the son of Thomas Davis and Hillegan Diggs/Degge/Digges and brother to Dorothy Davis who married William White, brother to John White. Once again the relationships get complicated.
Martha's mother, Maria (pronounced Mariah) Hudgins Davis was the daughter of Robert Hudgins (1759-1820) and Ann Burton (1765-1825). Robert was a Revolutionary War veteran – a private in Capt. Henry Garnett's Company, 2nd Regiment, Virginia troops. Maria's siblings included Jack Hudgins, who married Harriett Miller (of Whitehaven fame) of Norfolk, and Sallie Hudgins, who married Isaac Rose of Portsmouth. Maria Hudgins married Diggs Davis and had two daughters, Martha Diggs Davis and Mary Davis, who died of scarlet fever at age 10. Diggs, apparently, died relatively young and Maria married second, Matt Miller, a farmer from Gloucester and had one son, Dr. Matthias Miller.
Bartlett was a waterman for at least part of his adulthood – he was referred to as Capt. Bartlett and listed as being a "mariner" in the 1850 census. By the 1860 census, he was listed as a farmer, with a real estate value of $1500, a personal worth of $3500. And the owner of five slaves – four females and one male. He is enumerated in the 1850 Mathews County Tax list as owning 36.6 acres, 6 miles southwest of Mathews Courthouse – which is Whitehaven.
Bartlett and Martha raised seven children to adulthood. They themselves lived to be quite elderly, with Martha dying of "kidney disease" in 1891 at age 74 and Bartlett in 1896 at age 86 of "dropsy" and "old age". As stated above, they were originally buried at Whitehaven but later moved to Providence Cemetery at Cardinal.∼Husband of Martha Davis
Beloved Husband of Martha Davis, He was the son of John White and Elizabeth Davenport White, and grandson of William White and Elizabeth Bartlett.
James Bartlett White and family
Now to the discussion of Bartlett White and Martha Diggs Davis White. In the early 1830's, Bartlett bought what we now think of as the White Family home – Whitehaven – which is located on Mobjack Bay in the White's Neck area of Mathews County, and across a creek from the village of Mobjack. The home was owned in 1981 by Ralph and Charlotte Champney who graciously allowed me to visit and photograph the gravestones in the family cemetery that year. When I revisited Whitehaven in April 2000, I was saddened by its condition. The Champneys had sold the home a few years before, due to poor health, and it has neither been lived in nor kept up since. The property is overgrown (ivy growing across the interior walls), the floors are sagging and the wonderful screened porch is torn and obscured by shrubbery that is out of control.
Before Bartlett bought the home, it belonged to Harriett Miller Hudgins, widow of Jack Hudgins -- Martha Diggs Davis White's maternal uncle, who was lost at sea. Mrs. Hudgins, it is said, was very extravagant and ran up a grocery bill so high at Mr. Richard "Dick" Foster's store, that he eventually took over the house and land and sold it to Bartlett for $400.00! The rest of the land – the long row cut — was purchased from Mr. Dudley White, a cousin, -- and the swampland –- had belonged to Diggs Davis who left it to his daughter, Martha (Bartlett's, wife.)
Bartlett brought his mother, father, two younger sisters (Sally and Frances) and maternal grandmother (Mary Davenport Davis) to live with them at Whitehaven. It was then that the "old house" on Pepper Creek "was broken up". His father, John White, was the first of the White family to be buried at Whitehaven, having died in June of 1934. Whitehaven remained in the White Family for more that one hundred thirty years. The original house was burned "by Yankees" during the Civil War. Only part of the kitchen, an out building at the time of the burning, remains incorporated in the present structure.
It was probably about 1834 that Bartlett married Martha Diggs Davis, --he being 24 and she only 16 – at "Mally Ransome's present home, which belonged to Capt. Prichard (Miss Jestina's father, Flora's grandfather)." As mentioned in the Anderton section, Martha was the daughter of Diggs Davis and Maria Hudgins. She was first cousin to Elizabeth Davis who married Benjamin Anderton in the Anderton chapter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Armistead Davis, Sr., brother to Diggs/Degge/Digges Davis . Diggs and Armistead were the sons of Isaac Davis and Rebecca Armistead (daughter of Robert Armistead and Catherine Gwathmey, married in 1743). Other siblings included twin girls, Catherine Davis (named after Rebecca's mother), who married a Jarvis and Hillegan Davis (named after Isaac's mother), Polly Davis, who married a Spratt, and Frances Davis, who married a Borum. Both brothers, Armistead and Diggs Davis, served during the War of 1812 – Armistead as a private and Diggs as a sergeant in Capt. Henry Digges Company, 61st Regiment of the Virginia Militia, Mathews County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Levin Gayle . It is thought that Isaac was the son of Thomas Davis and Hillegan Diggs/Degge/Digges and brother to Dorothy Davis who married William White, brother to John White. Once again the relationships get complicated.
Martha's mother, Maria (pronounced Mariah) Hudgins Davis was the daughter of Robert Hudgins (1759-1820) and Ann Burton (1765-1825). Robert was a Revolutionary War veteran – a private in Capt. Henry Garnett's Company, 2nd Regiment, Virginia troops. Maria's siblings included Jack Hudgins, who married Harriett Miller (of Whitehaven fame) of Norfolk, and Sallie Hudgins, who married Isaac Rose of Portsmouth. Maria Hudgins married Diggs Davis and had two daughters, Martha Diggs Davis and Mary Davis, who died of scarlet fever at age 10. Diggs, apparently, died relatively young and Maria married second, Matt Miller, a farmer from Gloucester and had one son, Dr. Matthias Miller.
Bartlett was a waterman for at least part of his adulthood – he was referred to as Capt. Bartlett and listed as being a "mariner" in the 1850 census. By the 1860 census, he was listed as a farmer, with a real estate value of $1500, a personal worth of $3500. And the owner of five slaves – four females and one male. He is enumerated in the 1850 Mathews County Tax list as owning 36.6 acres, 6 miles southwest of Mathews Courthouse – which is Whitehaven.
Bartlett and Martha raised seven children to adulthood. They themselves lived to be quite elderly, with Martha dying of "kidney disease" in 1891 at age 74 and Bartlett in 1896 at age 86 of "dropsy" and "old age". As stated above, they were originally buried at Whitehaven but later moved to Providence Cemetery at Cardinal.∼Husband of Martha Davis
James Bartlett White and family
Now to the discussion of Bartlett White and Martha Diggs Davis White. In the early 1830's, Bartlett bought what we now think of as the White Family home – Whitehaven – which is located on Mobjack Bay in the White's Neck area of Mathews County, and across a creek from the village of Mobjack. The home was owned in 1981 by Ralph and Charlotte Champney who graciously allowed me to visit and photograph the gravestones in the family cemetery that year. When I revisited Whitehaven in April 2000, I was saddened by its condition. The Champneys had sold the home a few years before, due to poor health, and it has neither been lived in nor kept up since. The property is overgrown (ivy growing across the interior walls), the floors are sagging and the wonderful screened porch is torn and obscured by shrubbery that is out of control.
Before Bartlett bought the home, it belonged to Harriett Miller Hudgins, widow of Jack Hudgins -- Martha Diggs Davis White's maternal uncle, who was lost at sea. Mrs. Hudgins, it is said, was very extravagant and ran up a grocery bill so high at Mr. Richard "Dick" Foster's store, that he eventually took over the house and land and sold it to Bartlett for $400.00! The rest of the land – the long row cut — was purchased from Mr. Dudley White, a cousin, -- and the swampland –- had belonged to Diggs Davis who left it to his daughter, Martha (Bartlett's, wife.)
Bartlett brought his mother, father, two younger sisters (Sally and Frances) and maternal grandmother (Mary Davenport Davis) to live with them at Whitehaven. It was then that the "old house" on Pepper Creek "was broken up". His father, John White, was the first of the White family to be buried at Whitehaven, having died in June of 1934. Whitehaven remained in the White Family for more that one hundred thirty years. The original house was burned "by Yankees" during the Civil War. Only part of the kitchen, an out building at the time of the burning, remains incorporated in the present structure.
It was probably about 1834 that Bartlett married Martha Diggs Davis, --he being 24 and she only 16 – at "Mally Ransome's present home, which belonged to Capt. Prichard (Miss Jestina's father, Flora's grandfather)." As mentioned in the Anderton section, Martha was the daughter of Diggs Davis and Maria Hudgins. She was first cousin to Elizabeth Davis who married Benjamin Anderton in the Anderton chapter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Armistead Davis, Sr., brother to Diggs/Degge/Digges Davis . Diggs and Armistead were the sons of Isaac Davis and Rebecca Armistead (daughter of Robert Armistead and Catherine Gwathmey, married in 1743). Other siblings included twin girls, Catherine Davis (named after Rebecca's mother), who married a Jarvis and Hillegan Davis (named after Isaac's mother), Polly Davis, who married a Spratt, and Frances Davis, who married a Borum. Both brothers, Armistead and Diggs Davis, served during the War of 1812 – Armistead as a private and Diggs as a sergeant in Capt. Henry Digges Company, 61st Regiment of the Virginia Militia, Mathews County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Levin Gayle . It is thought that Isaac was the son of Thomas Davis and Hillegan Diggs/Degge/Digges and brother to Dorothy Davis who married William White, brother to John White. Once again the relationships get complicated.
Martha's mother, Maria (pronounced Mariah) Hudgins Davis was the daughter of Robert Hudgins (1759-1820) and Ann Burton (1765-1825). Robert was a Revolutionary War veteran – a private in Capt. Henry Garnett's Company, 2nd Regiment, Virginia troops. Maria's siblings included Jack Hudgins, who married Harriett Miller (of Whitehaven fame) of Norfolk, and Sallie Hudgins, who married Isaac Rose of Portsmouth. Maria Hudgins married Diggs Davis and had two daughters, Martha Diggs Davis and Mary Davis, who died of scarlet fever at age 10. Diggs, apparently, died relatively young and Maria married second, Matt Miller, a farmer from Gloucester and had one son, Dr. Matthias Miller.
Bartlett was a waterman for at least part of his adulthood – he was referred to as Capt. Bartlett and listed as being a "mariner" in the 1850 census. By the 1860 census, he was listed as a farmer, with a real estate value of $1500, a personal worth of $3500. And the owner of five slaves – four females and one male. He is enumerated in the 1850 Mathews County Tax list as owning 36.6 acres, 6 miles southwest of Mathews Courthouse – which is Whitehaven.
Bartlett and Martha raised seven children to adulthood. They themselves lived to be quite elderly, with Martha dying of "kidney disease" in 1891 at age 74 and Bartlett in 1896 at age 86 of "dropsy" and "old age". As stated above, they were originally buried at Whitehaven but later moved to Providence Cemetery at Cardinal.∼Husband of Martha Davis
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