ger, being stored in a bedroom of Capt. William Thomas's house.   Then Mr. White, with some neighbors, took ox carts (no spring wagons then) and during the quiet and darkness of midnight, loaded that powder, carrying it with great care and caution to his barn, even storing some under the bed in the "free room."   Mr. White was commissioned to collect the tea after it was voted not to drink it.   They stored it in the house of Nehemiah Thomas.   Saving the tea at that time did not satisfy those earnest, honest whigs, so they took this confiscated article and carried it into a nearby field, where there was a large rock, "flatt on ye top," pouring it thereon, and then Mr. White and his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Low, (two staunch old whigs,) applied the torch amid rejoicings.
   At a town meeting held in Marshfield, June 19, 1776, it was voted to send certain instructions to Nehemiah Thomas, their Representative to General Court, these instructions, Benj. White, acting Town Clerk, put into form, which was accepted and sent as specified.
   It has been called the "First Declaration of Independence."   (See a copy of it in Richards' 1st vol., History of Marshfield.)   Mr. White lived to see his country free and independent.   He died of consumption in 1783.   His widow was a worthy descendant of Gov. Bradford, who survived Mr. White until 1808.

   Another branch of the Whites is the Warren White branch on Pleasant street.
   James White, a direct lineal descendant of Peregrine, and grandfather of living Warren F. White (ex-soldier) lived near the residence of said Warren F., and owned on that street land from the old Israel and Silas Carver place, now Mr. Whidden's, including all the farms and places on the street to the railroad bridge.   He had three sons, John, Warren and Martin White.   Warren F. and Gus-