WHITE, Andrew, clergyman, born in London, England, about 1579; died there, 27 December, 1656. He was educated at Douay college, France, where he was ordained priest in 1605. After his return to England in 1606 he was arrested, with sixteen other priests, and sentenced to perpetual banishment. He entered the society of Jesus on 2 February, 1609, returned to England at the risk of his life, and was engaged in missionary duties there until 1619. He was subsequently professor of theology and Hebrew in Valladolid and Seville, and of divinity in Douay and Liege. In 1633 he was chosen by the Jesuit general, Mutius Vitelleschi, to accompany Lord Baltimore to this country, with some other Jesuits. After landing he devoted himself to the conversion of the Piscataway and Patuxent Indians, as well as to those in the neighborhood of the new settlements. He returned to Europe subsequently, and brought back more missionaries. Father White learned the language of the Indians, and compiled a grammar, vocabulary, and catechism. They were all supposed to be lost, until Father William McSherry discovered the catechism in the Jesuit archives at Rome. Father White was summoned to sit in the first colonial assembly of Maryland; but his request to be excused from taking part in secular affairs was granted. The "Extracts from the Letters of the Missionaries," appended to his "Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam," give some very interesting details about his labors and success among the Indians of Patapaco, Piscataway, and Patuxent. In 1644 he was seized by a band of Claiborne's soldiers and sent in irons to England, where he was imprisoned on a charge of violating the law concerning "missionary popish priests." After great suffering he was released and banished from the country. He petitioned his superiors to be allowed to go to Maryland; but his request being refused, on the ground of his age and infirmities, he returned to England under an assumed name, and was there engaged in missionary duties. Further accounts of him are vague and uncertain, although the place and date of his death are given in the official records of the Jesuit order. He wrote " Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam," which, with " Declaratio colonize Domini Baronis de Baltimoro" and "Excerpta ex Diversis Litteris Missionariorum ab anno 1635 ad annum 1638," has been published, accompanied by a translation, by the Maryland historical society (Baltimore, 1874).