Father: John WHYTE (1669-1742)
Mother: Jean JOHNSTOUN (-)
Robert served as a surgeon in
the British Navy, then he came to America. He became acquainted with
William Hoge, and fell in love with his daughter -- subsequently Robert
left the British Navy and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
When a decision was made to remove to Virginia, he accompanied the
Hoge family and 20 other families and was one of the first settlers in
1735, near North Mountain, seven miles west of Winchester, Virginia.
He established White's Fort at North Mountain, that was used during
the French and Indian War.
William Nichols' history of the Hoge family quotes ``Virginia
Historical Collections'' as follows,
... Robert White, a surgeon
in the British Navy, who having visited his relative, William Hoge, then
residing in Delaware, fell in love with his daughter, Margaret, whom he married
and with whom accompanied by her parents, he emigrated to Virginia
and made his home near the North Mountain, on a creek which still bears the
name of White.
