What is William White?
[[Image:Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall.jpg|thumb|290px|''Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor'' by William Halsall (1882)]] '''William White''' (birthdate unknown, died February 1621) White was a ''[[Mayflower]]'' [[passenger]] who settled in [[Plymouth Colony]] in 1620 and signed the [[Mayflower Compact]]. He was born in [[England]] and died in the winter of 1621, in Plymouth Colony.<ref name=bradford>{{cite book |last=Bradford|first=William|title=History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth|year=1856|location=Boston}}</ref>{{rp|101}} == The ''Mayflower'' Voyage == [[File:The Mayflower Compact 1620 cph.3g07155.jpg|left|thumb|''Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620'', a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris]] White [[married]] Susanna in about 1615, and their son, [[Resolved White|Resolved]], was born soon after. They became passengers on the ''Mayflower'' which left [[Plymouth, Devon|Plymouth]], England on 16 September 1620. They also took with them two servants, [[List of Mayflower passengers|William Holbeck]] and [[List of Mayflower passengers|Edward Thompson]].<ref name=bradford/>{{rp|448}} There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the ''Mayflower'' spotted land. The ''Mayflower'' was supposed to land in the [[Colony of Virginia]], but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at what is now known as Provincetown [[Harbor]].<ref name= bowman>George Ernest Bowman, '' The Mayflower Compact and its signers'' (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920). Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document pp. 7-19.</ref><ref name=stratton>{{cite book|last=Stratton|first=Eugene Aubrey|title=Plymouth Colony: Its history and people, 1620-1691|url=https://archive.org/details/plymouthcolonyit0000stra|year=1986|publisher=Ancestry Publishing|location=Salt Lake City|isbn=0-916489-18-3}}</ref>{{rp|411-413}} They landed on November 21. They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and tre