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the possession of his nephew, Samuel Barker, Esq., of 

 Lyndon Hall, in the county of Rutland. 



" The family of the Whites (our family) were in pos- 

 session of an estate called Swan Hall, in the Ty thing of 

 Haley, parish of Witney, Oxon, as long ago as the reign 

 of Queen Elizabeth ; the mansion of Swan Hall is still 

 standing. In the map of Oxfordshire bound up with 

 Hatt's history of that county are the arms of the Whites 

 of Swan Hall, the same that we bear. We are lineally 

 descended from Sir Samson White, my great-grand- 

 father being the fourth son, born 1607, whose father was 

 possessed of Swan Hall. This estate, by a female line, 

 went into the family of the Ashfords, who sold it. 



" Thomas Holt, father of Anne Holt, afterwards wife 

 of John White (my father), was born at Petersfield, in the 

 county of Southampton. He was first Demy of Magd. 

 Coll. Oxford, but never Fellow. Afterwards preferred by 

 Mrs. Howland, his relation, and mother of the Duchess 

 of Bedford, to the rectory of Streatham, Surrey, where 

 he died in 1710, and was buried there. He married 

 Anne, daughter of Mr. Benj. Hyde, of Chichester, a 

 Russia merchant. The father of that Benj. Hyde was 

 also a Russia merchant, and, according to the custom of 

 the times, traded personally to those parts, being called 

 merchant adventurers. They went particularly to the 

 White Sea. There are portraits of each ; that of the 

 father in my possession at Selborne, and that of the son 

 at my brother's, Mr. Benjamin White, of South Lam- 

 beth. The above mentioned Anne Holt, wife of John 

 White, was born at Streatham, Nov. 1693, and died at 

 Selborne, Nov. J739. 



" (Signed) GIL. WHITE." 



The portrait above mentioned of the younger Benja- 



