Samuel White was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
White was born December 1770, in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, near Harrington

Harrington, Delaware

Harrington is a city in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Harrington hosts the annual Delaware State Fair each July...

, close to Whitleysburg, the son of Judge Thomas White. The future Methodist Bishop, Francis Asbury

Francis Asbury

Bishop Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now The United Methodist Church in the United States...

, hid in this house during the Revolutionary War years of 1778–1780.