John Porter

Bef 1594 - Aft 1648  (> 54 years)

• Name	John Porter  [1]
  Born	Bef 21 Jun 1594	Felsted, Essex, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	21 Jun 1594	Holy Cross, Felsted, Essex, England   [2, 4]
  Alternate death	21 Apr 1648	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 5, 6, 7]
  Died	Aft 20 Apr 1648  [1]
  Person ID	I7314	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	John Porter,   b. Abt 1560,   d. Aft 30 May 1623  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Sibyl Vessey,   b. Bef 30 Nov 1561, Little Baddow, Essex, England ,   d. Aft 26 Nov 1625  (Age > 64 years)
  Married	12 Sep 1587	Little Baddow, Essex, England   [2]
  Family ID	F2695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna White,   b. Bef 13 Jul 1600, Shalford, Essex, England ,   d. Jul 1647, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age > 47 years)
  Married	18 Oct 1620	All Saints, Messing, Essex, England   [2, 4, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Anna Porter,   b. Bef 22 Sep 1621, Felsted, Essex, England ,   d. 21 Jul 1653  (Age > 31 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2016
  Family ID	F90	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1638, probably on the Susan and Ellen. [History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield] Deputy to the Connecticut legislature for Windsor, Aug 1639, Oct 1646, May 1647. John Porter and Anna White were ancestors of Ulysses S. Grant: John Porter (1590-1648) = Anna White (1600-1647) Mary Porter (b. 1638) = Samuel Grant (1631-1718) Samuel Grant (1659-1710) = Grace Minor (1670-1753) Noah Grant (1692-1727) = Martha Huntington (b. 1696) Noah Grant (1718-1756) = Susanna Delano (b. 1724) Noah Grant (1748-1819)= Rachel Kelly (d. 1805) Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) = Hannah Simpson (1798-1883) Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) = Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902)

  
  

• Sources

  [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S588] John Insley Coddington, "John Porter of Windsor, Conn., and His Parents: Further Notes." The American Genealogist 18:56, July 1941. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32., place only. [S589] Winifred Lovering Holman, "John Porter of Windsor." The American Genealogist 16:49, July 1939. [S475] New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2005 by Martin E. Hollick. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32. [S932] "A Descendant," "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, Who Settled in Hartford and Windsor." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:22, January 1901.