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Priscilla Hill Dorsey Ridgely White

Birth
Death
10 Apr 1868 (aged 72)
Hampton, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Per Colonial Families Of The Southern States of America by Stella Pickett Hardy, Tobias A. Wright, Printer & Publisher, New York, 1911
Ridgely Family
Priscilla Hill Dorsey Ridgely, born March 17, 1796; married May 23, 1820, Stevenson White, [who] died February 11, 1826 and had issue. He was the sixth son of Dr. John Campbell White and Elizabeth Getty White.
His place of burial is unknown as of February 17, 2021. A memorial page was created for him in a cemetery in Illinois, but he died at Baltimore, Maryland.
According to the National Advocate published Thursday, March 2, 1826:
Died at Baltimore, the 11th February, in the 29th year of his age, Mr. Stephenson White, son of Doct. John C. White, of this city.
They were the parents of John Campbell White (born 1821), Charles Ridgely White (born 1824) and Rebecca Hanson White (1826-1847), who died at Paris.
Her place of death was at Hampton which is north of Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland

The Sun Thursday, April 16, 1868
Baltimore, Maryland
Died
White. On good Friday, April 10, 1868, Priscilla Hill White, in the 73d year of her age.

Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware by John Martin Hammond, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & London, 1914
In the family vault at Hampton, built of marble and brick, repose six and possibly seven generations of Ridgelys. Captain Charles Ridgely, born in 1733, died June 28, 1790, made provisions in his will for the building of this vault. Tradition says that his remains, with those of his father, Colonel Charles Ridgely and other members of his family, were placed here when the city of Baltimore ran its streets through the Spring Garden property, owned by the Ridgelys and obliterated all traces of an earlier burying ground. A complete record of those buried at Hampton begins, however, with the succeeding generation and as one looks through the iron grating of the doorway, one sees a wall of marble slabs duly inscribed with the names of the dead. This final touch, by which a charnel house was transformed into a worthy monument to her race, was given by the late Mrs. Charles Ridgely, a granddaughter of Governor Charles Ridgely, with whom the record begins. The inscriptions are:
Priscilla Hill White, wife of Stevenson White & daughter of Governor Ridgely, born March 17, 1796, died April 10, 1820.

Colonial Families Of The Southern States of America by Stella Pickett Hardy, Tobias A. Wright, Printer & Publisher, New York, 1911
Ridgely Family
Priscilla Hill Dorsey Ridgely, born March 17, 1796; married May 23, 1820, Stevenson White, [who] died February 11, 1826 and had issue.

National Advocate Thursday, March 2, 1826
Died at Baltimore, the 11th February, in the 29th year of his age, Mr. Stephenson White, son of Doct. John C. White, of this city.
Per Colonial Families Of The Southern States of America by Stella Pickett Hardy, Tobias A. Wright, Printer & Publisher, New York, 1911
Ridgely Family
Priscilla Hill Dorsey Ridgely, born March 17, 1796; married May 23, 1820, Stevenson White, [who] died February 11, 1826 and had issue. He was the sixth son of Dr. John Campbell White and Elizabeth Getty White.
His place of burial is unknown as of February 17, 2021. A memorial page was created for him in a cemetery in Illinois, but he died at Baltimore, Maryland.
According to the National Advocate published Thursday, March 2, 1826:
Died at Baltimore, the 11th February, in the 29th year of his age, Mr. Stephenson White, son of Doct. John C. White, of this city.
They were the parents of John Campbell White (born 1821), Charles Ridgely White (born 1824) and Rebecca Hanson White (1826-1847), who died at Paris.
Her place of death was at Hampton which is north of Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland

The Sun Thursday, April 16, 1868
Baltimore, Maryland
Died
White. On good Friday, April 10, 1868, Priscilla Hill White, in the 73d year of her age.

Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware by John Martin Hammond, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & London, 1914
In the family vault at Hampton, built of marble and brick, repose six and possibly seven generations of Ridgelys. Captain Charles Ridgely, born in 1733, died June 28, 1790, made provisions in his will for the building of this vault. Tradition says that his remains, with those of his father, Colonel Charles Ridgely and other members of his family, were placed here when the city of Baltimore ran its streets through the Spring Garden property, owned by the Ridgelys and obliterated all traces of an earlier burying ground. A complete record of those buried at Hampton begins, however, with the succeeding generation and as one looks through the iron grating of the doorway, one sees a wall of marble slabs duly inscribed with the names of the dead. This final touch, by which a charnel house was transformed into a worthy monument to her race, was given by the late Mrs. Charles Ridgely, a granddaughter of Governor Charles Ridgely, with whom the record begins. The inscriptions are:
Priscilla Hill White, wife of Stevenson White & daughter of Governor Ridgely, born March 17, 1796, died April 10, 1820.

Colonial Families Of The Southern States of America by Stella Pickett Hardy, Tobias A. Wright, Printer & Publisher, New York, 1911
Ridgely Family
Priscilla Hill Dorsey Ridgely, born March 17, 1796; married May 23, 1820, Stevenson White, [who] died February 11, 1826 and had issue.

National Advocate Thursday, March 2, 1826
Died at Baltimore, the 11th February, in the 29th year of his age, Mr. Stephenson White, son of Doct. John C. White, of this city.


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