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William White (1748–1836)

Role

White and Bushrod Washington exchanged several letters regarding both the Virginia episcopate and the lands of White's son.

Description

William White, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia on 4 April 1748. A graduate of the present-day University of Pennsylvania, he was ordained as a priest in London in 1772. The following year he married Mary Harrison (1750–1797), whose father had served as mayor of Philadelphia. White returned to England in 1787 to obtain consecration as bishop.

Citations

"William White." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310000774/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=57ee9a96. Accessed 16 Dec. 2023.

Bird Wilson, Memoir of the Life of the Right Reverend William White, D.D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: James Kay Jun. & Brother, 1839). 

"About the Senate Chaplain," United States Senate.

William White at Find a Grave.

Rev Bishop William T White at FamilySearch.