White Matlack (October 7, 1745; Haddonfield, New Jersey – January 7, 1824) to Elizabeth Martha Burr Haines and Timothy Matlack: a couple that had both lost their first spouses.
His grandparents were William Matlack and Mary Hancock; and Henry Burr and Elizabeth Hudson.
His siblings were Sybil, Elizabeth, Titus, Seth, Josiah and Timothy Matlack.
He was a New York Quaker and abolitionist.
He married Mary Hawhurst on March 6, 1768.
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 1782, he and Isaac Howell signed a document titled The memorial and remonstrance of Isaac Howell and White Matlack, in behalf of themselves, and others, who have been disowned by the people called Quakers, &c.
White and his brother Timothy had been disowned by Orthodox Quakers for their support of the American Revolution.
They formed a group with others called the Society of Free Quakers.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 York.Three years later he became a member of the New York Manumission Society.
In 1787, the society founded the African Free School.
He died at Bay Side, near Flushing on Long Island, aged 80.