American Ancestors

[smokingboot]

Our second closest link has been extremely useful, but the closest hasn't yet answered my emails. I've sent two and must now leave it lest he think I'm a loon. Looking at his twitter account, he doesn't seem to do much in the way of social media. If we haven't heard from him in a month or two, I'll urge my brother to try contacting him through the site itself, meantime we will have to do what we can through other links.

The guy who has done all the work for us died in 2014, a veteran of the Korean war. For posterity's sake (and because I lose stuff all the time) I cut and paste his findings here.


1 Samuel Porter 1567 - 1659 b: Abt. 1567 in Dorchester, Dorsetshire d: 1659 in Dorsetshire
+ Sarah 1568 - b: Abt. 1568 in Dorchester, Dorsetshire

2 John Porter 1595 - 1675 b: Abt. 1595 in Dorchester, Dorsetshire d: 6 Sep 1675 in Salem, Essex, MA + Margaret LANG 1590 - 1642 b: 1590 in Madron, Cornwall d: 1642 in Salem, Essex, MA

3 Samuel Porter 1637 - 1660 b: Abt. 1637 in Salem, Essex, MA d: 28 Apr 1660 in Salem, Essex, MA + Hannah DODGE 1642 - 1688 b: 24 Jul 1642 in Beverly, Essex, MA d: 2 Jan 1688 in Beverly, Essex, MA

4 John Porter 1658 - 1753 b: 1658 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA d: 8 Mar 1753 in Wenham, Essex, MA + Lydia HERRICK 1661 - 1739 b: 26 Sep 1661 in Salem, Essex, MA d: 12 Feb 1739 in Wenham, Essex, MA

5 Nehemiah Porter 1698 - 1784 b: 11 Oct 1698 in Wenham, Essex, MA d: 5 Oct 1784 in Hamilton, Essex, MA + Hannah Smith 1690 - 1753 b: 28 Oct 1690 in Beverly, Essex, MA d: 26 Mar 1753 in Ipswich, Essex, MA

6 Samuel Porter 1722 - 1750 b: 17 May 1722 in Ipswich, Essex, MA d: 10 May 1750 in Boxford, Essex, MA + Sarah 1723 - 1790 b: Abt. 1723 d: Abt. 1790

7 Samuel Porter 1746 - 1833 b: 8 May 1746 in Boxford, Essex, MA d: 8 May 1833 in Chester, Rockingham, NH + Martha PERLEY 1751 - 1837 b: 25 Jan 1751 in Ipswich, Essex, MA d: 19 Jan 1837 in Chester, Rockingham, NH

8 John Litton Porter 1789 - 1874 b: 1789 in Lee Co, VA d: 3 Nov 1874 in Fayette, Fayette, AL + Elizabeth 1800 - 1880 b: Abt. 1800 in Virginia d: 19 Apr 1880 in Nauvoo, Walker, AL

9 Richard Riley Porter 1823 - 1908 b: 12 Nov 1823 in Fayette Co, AL d: 9 Apr 1908 in Higgins, Lipscomb, TX + Sara Affa McMinn 1827 - 1910 b: 15 Jan 1827 in North Carolina d: 27 Nov 1910 in Higgins, Lipscomb, TX

10 John William Porter 1849 - 1931 b: 18 Jan 1849 in Fayette Co, AL d: 27 Dec 1931 in Blanket, Brown, TX + Martha Ann Hope 1865 - 1945 b: 17 Feb 1865 in Kerr Co, TX d: 19 Jun 1945 in Blanket, Brown, TX

11 Jesse Judson Porter 1897 - 1966 b: 26 Dec 1897 in Indian Creek, Brown, TX d: 4 Jan 1966 in Sweetwater, Nolan, TX+ Edith Alleta Boyer 1901 - 1993 b: 25 Oct 1901 in Blanket, Brown, TX d: 28 Dec 1993 in Lamesa, Dawson, TX

12 Jesse Judson Porter 1929 - 2014 b: 21 Jan 1929 in Westmoreland, Imperial, CA d: 7 Sep 2014 in Denver, Denver, CO

Thank you Jesse.


I would expect the paternity event to tie in with the blank line on my grandfather's birth certificate. She cited her husband beneath, but the Mitchell Unit said that the delicate omission often indicated that the mother was not sure. Here is where it gets tricky. Could have been a love affair, could have been an assault, could have been earlier in the history of the family fathers ... People don't want to think that their relative behaved in untoward fashion in another country then abandoned squeeze and son. The timing would point towards Jesse Judson Parker 1's era so I may be looking for him or a relative of his in Ireland/Scotland a few years after WWI.

Read up on Massachusetts history; god these people were tough! I have always detested puritanism, simply because it seems so closed off, so unimaginative, a starvation diet for the soul bound to burst out in pathological control issues; and the modern day version displeases me just as much. But leaving that aside, got to tip my hat to the resilience of these people. Apparently one family member had a way of 'listening' that told when the British had crossed a bridge or something ( yes, they were involved in the war of Independence; I found the story then lost it again). Moving the other way, Samuel Porter's ancestry goes back a while though it seems that research has dried up on it. Theories say he was descended from Hugh de Port, but I am writing that off as people's desire to be aristocratic. My father's maternal line offsets all this, sailing off as it does into the Celtic sunset of Dalriada and Erin. Just as well. It's one thing to be descended from tough bible thumpers carving out a new world, I am not ready to be related to Norman squareheads.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

Fascinating! 😊

[smokingboot]

Thanks, I think so too! 😊