REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER 1759 – 1836 White was born July 25,
1759, in Dutchess County, New York. His father was a captain in
the battles of Saratoga and Fort Ticonderoga. His grandfather
was a member of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, one of
the earliest attempts at replacing British rule with an
independent government. married Hannah Finch in 1785 in New
York, and they had the following children: As soon as he was old
enough, Nathaniel enlisted at Albany, NY, and joined a state
militia outfit commanded by Marivanus Willett’s Company in and
around the city of Albany, NY, in 1781. White fought heroically
in the Revolution, and once led an attack on an Indian
encampment near Canada. He received a pension in Tippecanoe
County, Indiana, in 1833. After the war he settled into a
civilian life of farming and hunting near Albany until his
family began their westward trek in 1806. In 1828 he came to the
new area of Tippecanoe County on a flatboat and settled on the
Wea Plains, in what was known as Durkee’s Se