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Excerpt from The Founders of Ohio: Brief Sketches of the Forty-Eight Pioneers Who, Under Command of General Rufus Putnam Landed at the Mouth of the Muskingum River on the Seventh of April, 1788, and Commenced the First White Settlement in the North-West Territory
Jliajor Hatfield White was appointed by the directors of the Ohio Company Commissary and conductor of the first party of pioneers who left Danvers, December and shared with them the labor and suffering attending the long march over the snow-clad mountains of Pennsylvania. He was a soldier of the revolution, and served as a Lien tenant ih Hutchinson's Regiment; and as Captain in Put nam's (5th) Regiment, and rendered distinguished services at the battle of Lexington, at the crossing of the Dela ware, at Trenton, Hubbardton, and at Saratoga, and was made a Major at the close of the war. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Major White owned three shares in the Ohio Company. He was robust, active, and prompt in the execution of business. During the first. Year after his arrival at Marietta he continued to act as steward for the company, and also built for himself a house in Campus Martins. The next year, with Colonel Robert Oliver and Captain John Dodge, be erected mills on Wolf Creek, which were the first ever built in Ohio. On the breaking out of the Indian war, these mills being in a very exposed situation, were abandoned, the owners taking refuge at Marietta. On the return of peace be set tled on land he owned near the mills. These also evento ally became his property. Major White was a useful citi zen noted for his industry and integrity. He died Decem ber 13, 1817.
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