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June "White"
Born 1744? Senegal Nation
Died after Feb 1786 ?Natchez District

SPOUSE	CHILDREN
?Peter ?m. Senegal Nation, West Africa b. 1748? d. after Jan 26, 1789 ?Natchez Dist.	Jupiter b. 1762? Senegal Nation d. after Feb 1790 ?Natchez Dist.	Juno b. 1765? ?SC or Senegal Nation
Senegal is a nation on the coast of West Africa just above Guinea. It abolished slavery in 1794, but Bonaparte reestablished it in 1802.
Elizabeth White and most of the White family moved from Virginia to South Carolina near Pee Dee River in Craven Co. [now defunct]. According to the records of the Cashaway [SC] Baptist Church: On "Sat 25 Oct 1760 ... Mr. James White [her older brother or father] for excess drinking be suspended from this church until satisfaction be given... 20 June 1767 .. on Cashaway Neck on Pee Dee in Craven County. The names of all the members... Elizabeth White [her mother who had recently died].. gone." Elizabeth's sister Jane was married in or before 1760, and Elizabeth herself married five years later.
June was born about 1744, in the Senegal Nation. Jupiter and Juno are both names of Roman gods. All three were owned by members of the White family in South Carolina by Dec 1773 when Jupiter was deeded to another member of the White family.
Son Jupiter was included in a deed of gift dated Dec 13, 1773 from Reuben White to the wife and children of his brother, William White. The Deed of Gift in Craven Co. SC to Reuben's sister-in-law Sophia White, wife of William, was filed in SC in 1777 after Reuben was killed. Jupiter is described as a boy. In 1773 he would have been about 11 years old [Gifford White, Documents on Estate of Reuben White].
While in South Carolina, the White family was not sympathetic to the American Revolution and left a trail of litigation in the state. The family moved to what is now Burke Co NC, then split with some members moving to Natchez Territory (now Mississippi) and the rest remaining in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. The split appears to have occurred when son Reuben was killed by indians in 1777 at Pleasant Gardens NC. James and son William White opted for the patriot side and stayed in Burke Co. During the American Revolution, Mississippi and Louisiana districts were havens for Loyalists.
In late 1781 Catherine "Cary" White, a daughter of William White, married widower William Dewitt in Burke Co. NC. He immediately returned to the Cumberland Settlement in Washington Co. NC. with her. In May 1782, the family was among 13 families emigrating to the Natchez District by flatboats including that of Cary's uncles James White, and John White. They are listed in the Spanish arrival record of Jul 6, as "Guillaume Duelt, wife & children, 5 Individuos" and 23 Slaves. June and her childen Jupiter and Juno, were among those slaves and each was sold several times while in Natchez.
William Dewitt was the subject of a deposition made in the Natchez District on Jan 31, 1785. The deposition was regarding a transfer of slaves and debts owed by William. Members of the White family bear witness to events in Washington Co. NC [now part of TN] where the Dewitts and White bothers were living with their families in 1781. The transfer of slaves, among them June, Jupiter, and Juno, was proven to be a forgery and his debts settled by the Spanish Tribunal [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book E, p. 36].
Although judged a forgery, a Jan 22, 1781 Deed of Gift by William Dewitt mentioned the names of his children by his first wife. In it he gifts to his wife Catherine White Dewitt Negroes Ben, Filis, Jinny, and Mary; to his daughter Catherine Dewitt Negroes Phoebe, Sambo, and June; to his son Jesse Negroes Cuffey, Stephen, Eudgo, Manday, James, Dol and Lammenton; and to his daughter Martha Negroes Filis [Phyllis] and her child, and Jupiter [McBee, Book E, p. 162].
On Aug 31, 1784 the Natchez Court appointed appraisers to value William Dewitt's whole estate to protect creditors in case of William's "meditated flight". On Dec 23, 1784 the estate was valued at $4,319. It included 600 arpents on St. Catherine's Creek with cabins, 400 arpents (about 336 acres) on the Mississippi River with dwelling house and cabins, and 10 slaves [McBee, Book A, pp. 24-27.
By Feb 20, 1786, after William Dewitt's conviction for "intention to leave [Natchez] District without passport to evade payment", the entire estate was put up for public sale and the proceeds distributed to the creditors. Among the slaves sold were: Jupiter, "ae 22" to John Row, June, "ae 40" [when appraised in 1784?] to Matthew White, who died by May 17, 1795, leaving his wife Elizabeth as executrix and two sons John Hampton and Charles [McBee, Natchez Court Records, pp. 115, 284, Book A, p. 207-11].
1895 Map of Natchez [Ancestral Trackers, website], shows the likely routes of the Second and Sandy Creeks in 1792.
Map of the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799.
By May of 1787 John Stillee and wife Elizabeth, along with their three children and their slaves Bella, Dorinda, and Lucinda, had left the Natchez District when Carlos de Grand-Pré authorized the settling of the "affairs of John Stilles, absconded" by having three disinterested persons examine the "books and accounts" of Stillee, and meet any debtors mentioned in the books along with George Fitzgerald, who would defend the "absent party" [Wells, p. 125].
On Jan 26, 1789 a negro "Peter", aged 40, nat. of Senegal" was sold by James Elliott to William Henderson for $300 paid [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book B, p. 63]. William Henderson was appointed an appraiser of the estate of William Dewitt in Aug 1784. James Elliott was the buyer of Dewitt's slave "Cuff, ae 40" but no slave named Peter was sold from the auction [McBee, Book A, p. 27].
According to the 1792 Natchez District Census, translated from the Spanish handwritten records, the household of June's owner "Mateo White" owned 2000 arpents of land in the Second & Sandy Creek (SS) area, and counted 3 white persons and 9 slaves. The household of Jupiter's possible new owner "Margareta Row" owned 400 arpents of land in the Buffalo Creek (BC) area, and counted 7 white persons and 3 slaves. Peter's possible new owner "William Henderson" died by 1793 and neither he nor his widow Dorothy or sons were among the households counted [Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network], but on Aug 20, 1794, his widow was granted 300 acres 5 mi. NE of Fort" that bordered her late husband's land probably on St. Catherine's Creek [McBee, pp. 205, 431].
Gayoso succeeded Grand-Pré in 1792 and changed the name of the mansion built by his predecessor to Concord. Postcard showing the mansion before it burned down in 1901.
SOURCES: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. McBee, May Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, p. 27, Book C, p. 73, Book F, pp. 19, 21. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 33, 205, 382, 431, Book A, pp. 24-27, 207-11, Book B, pp. 63, 74, Book E, p. 36. Marlboro County SC Churches, website, Cashaway Neck Baptist Church Record Book, 1756-1778, contributed by Glenn Pearson, May 2000, webpage. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, microfilm, roll #5618, vol.1, pp. 105-8. Ragland, M.L., comp., "Holloway Succession Records of St. Helena Parish, LA", Greenwood MS, May 1990, p. 15-16. Rowland, Dunbar, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917, Madison WI, pp. 85-89, 1816 Claiborne Co. Census. href="https://www.skcensus.com/1820-census-index-st-landry-parish-louisiana/">Index, S-K Publications, 2021. Veach, Damon, "Louisiana Ancestors", article in Sunday Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge LA, Feb 21, 1982. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, Bowie MD, 1992, pp. 52, 101, 125, 144-5, 151. White, Gifford, "James White and John White", Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2 by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC,1997, p. 111. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. White, Gifford E., "Documents on Estate of Reuben White", typed transcriptions of court records at NC Archives, received by Lisabeth Holloway from Michael F. Gibbons, Feb 1989, 5 pages.