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I hope the below helps you and some other ancestors / cousins. I have much more info, including military service info and am happy to share.
BIOGRAPHY: "Reuben White [also spelled Wight] and wife [Ruth Hammond] came from Rhode Island to Canaan, Col[umbia] Co., [NY], and settled among the Shakers [prior to 1805]. They had two children--boys [Nathan and Hezekiah]. Mr. White bought a farm among the Shakers. After staying there some years he became dissatisfied and left there with his two boys. He left his wife there on account of a rule among the Shakers. Mr. White was compelled to leave his farm also among them. Rather a singular way of doing business, yet it appeared to be the rule among that peculiar people.
The wife of Reuben [Ruth Hammond] stayed with the Shakers... [and became a very active member - see below]
.....Reuben White, after leaving the Shakers, went to Coeymans, Albany Co., [NY], [also called Coeymans' Landing], with his two sons. After a time he married the second wife, whose maiden name was Thankful Hammond. This woman was a sister of his first wife. By this union were ten children: John, Betsey, Ruth, William, Childs, Lydia and Lucy--twins, Hannah, Joseph and Moses. These children were all born in Coeymans.
.... The children by the second wife [Thankful H. White], of which there were ten in number, all died in Windham, except two, Moses and Hannah.
Reuben White left Coeymans and came to Windham [Greene County, NY] in 1810 and settled in Mitchell Hollow in a log house that stood on the ground, afterwards owned and occupied by Jared Clark, on the west side of the Mitchell Hollow road.
Reuben White lived in that log house for some years, and at that time all the roads through Mitchell Hollow were wood roads, and people were compelled to travel by trees being marked so that they could find their way and not get lost in the forest. After a time, Mr. White moved from this log house and came to the place or farm [later] owned and occupied by Cornelius Hidecker [his grandson].
.....When Reuben White moved where Cornelius Hidecker now lives, he built a block house and lived there a long time.
In the course of time and as Mr. White and his wife were getting on the shady side of life, health in Mrs. [Thankful] White began to fail, and after a severe sickness she died in 1831, aged 61 years. Reuben White lived to the advanced age of 96, and died in 1844.
....Reuben White and wife both died in the old block house.
Reuben White was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and was a pensioner of that army. The remains of Reuben White rest in the cemetery in Windham [Greene County, NY], and the remains of his wife [Thankful H.] were buried in the old burying ground near where the old Baptist church stood, on the old turnpike, a little west from where Major Fuller's old tavern stood.
The two boys by the first wife [Ruth H.] were Nathan and Hezekiah. Nathan married Katrina Hidecker; she was a sister of Andrew Hidecker. Nathan moved to [Bradford County] Pennsylvania where both [he and his wife] died, leaving a large family of children. (From The Windham Journal, Nov. 18, 1886)
MISCELLANEOUS: March, 1780--[Mother Ann Lee] was visited by Reuben Wight and Talmadge Bishop from the revival at New Lebanon. (Chronology of Mother Ann Lee-Founder of the Shakers on the web at
http://www.shakerwssg.org/Chronology%20of%20Mother%20Ann.htm )
SOURCES: The Windham Journal, Windham, Greene County, N.Y., Thursday, Nov. 18, 1886, History of Windham - and Reminiscences of Its People, Past and Present, Cornelius Hidecker, Number 46; Greene County Revolutionary War Pensioners - 1835 - Extracted by Sylvia Hasenkopf from the "United States Senate Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834 and the 3rd March, 1835, In relation to the Pension establishment of the United States", Duff, Green 1835, Washington, DC - on the web at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2/pensioners_1835.htm ; Windham Journal newspaper; 28 Jan 1904 issue; N.Y.State Newspaper Project microfilm roll 19, 1903:11:5-1906:6:28, master negative NYSNP1939, NYS Archives, Albany NY; copy of 7 Sept 1832 Proof of Service in the Revolutionary War in order to obtain a Pension; Windham Cemetery tombstones as transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf Sept-Oct 2004 on the web at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2/windham_cemetery.htm
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