John White the grandfather of John & Charles Wesley
I have a possible family connection to the Rev. John White of Dorchester who was "Patriarch of Dorchester and Founder of Massachusetts". I found a couple of web-sites that claim that John White was the great-father of John and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist church. However, this daughter married John Wesley (grandfather of the brothers) who was born 1636. Daughter White could have been older then her husband but she would have had to have been considerablly older (at least ten years and more like 15 or 20 years older) to have been a daughter of John and his wife were would born in the 1570s. Could the wife of John Westley the first have been a granddaughter of John White instead? Or did someone long ago just decide that since Mrs. Wesley was a "daughter of John White" that it had to have been a famous John White?