John Porter

Abt 1608 - Aft 1674  (~ 66 years)

• Name	John Porter
  Birth	Abt 1608  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 25 Apr 1674	Pettaquamscutt, Rhode Island   [1]
  Person ID	I10689	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 1	Herodias Long,   b. Abt 1624, London, England d. Aft 22 Nov 1673 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Family ID	F6043	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret,   b. Bef 1590   d. Aft 1665 (Age > 77 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1633	Braintree, Essex, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Divorce	1665	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [5]
  Family ID	F5979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1633, first at Roxbury, then Boston by 1637, where he was a supporter of the Rev. Wheelwright, occasioning his departure to Portsmouth in 1638. He was clearly a well-educated man, judging from the sorts of offices he held in Rhode Island until his move to Pettaquamscutt in or after 1665. This final move roughly coincided with his desertion or abandonment of his first wife, Margaret (_____) Odding, the mother of Hannah, his only child. On 3 May 1665 Margaret petitioned the Rhode Island court for relief, upon which the court ordered that his estate be impounded. Porter made provision for his wife, and the impoundment was rescinded. His connection to Herodias Long, who had previously been divorced from or deserted by both John Hicks and George Gardiner (see her entry) appears to have commenced after 1665 and before 1671. It is unlikely that they ever legally married.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S998] Patricia Law Hatcher, "Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman, Wife of Philip Sherman of Portsmouth, Rhode Island." The American Genealogist 73:176, July 1998. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., date only, "ca 1610/15". [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., "by about 1630". [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.