Mary Porter

1663 - 1746  (83 years)

• Name	Mary Porter
  Birth	12 Oct 1663	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Dec 1746	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I33980	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Sgt. John Porter,   b. Abt 1635   d. 25 Aug 1717, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Deliverance Byram   d. 30 Sep 1720, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	9 Apr 1660	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F20009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sgt. William Pettee,   b. 12 May 1661, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 6 Jun 1728 (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1685  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Nathaniel Pettee,   b. Abt 1688, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 30 Aug 1747, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years)
  Family ID	F20008	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  She is given two different birth dates at two different places in George Walter Chamberlain's History of Weymouth (citation details below). In the entry for her husband, William Pettee, she is said to have been born at Weymouth 12 Oct 1663; in the entry for her father, Sgt. John Porter, she is said to have been born in the same place on 22 Oct 1662. This is probably an error prompted by the fact that the vital records of Weymouth contain two entries for a Mary Porter, daughter of John and Deliverance. In the published version (citation details below), the entries are immediately adjacent to one another, although the mother is spelled "Deliverence" in the second entry. One entry says 22 Oct 1662 and the next says 12 Oct 1663. The likeliest interpretation of this is that the child born in 1662 died in childbirth or infancy, and that this Mary Porter is the one born in 1663.

  
  

• Sources

  [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923. [S2858] Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850: Volume I--Births. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.