Career
He was a New York Quaker and abolitionist. They had four children. White, Timothy, Mary, and Hannah.
White was a watchmaker and silversmith in New York City from around 1769 to 1775.
In 1775, he also worked in Philadelphia. Then he ran a brewery located not far from the Fraunces Tavern.
By the 1780s he moved into steel manufacturing. In 1786, he signed a letter to the Senate and assembly of the State of New York, against the shipping of African slaves through the port of New New York
In 1787, the society founded the African Free School.
He died at Bay Side, near Flushing on Long Island, aged 80.
