Richard Porter

Abt 1612 - 1689  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Richard Porter  [1, 2, 3]
  Alternate birth	Between 1605 and 1609  [4]
  Birth	Abt 1612  [5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [6]
  Death	Between 25 Dec 1688 and 6 Mar 1689	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 7]
  Alternate death	Bef 9 May 1689	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I27054	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2020

  
  

  Family	(Unknown wife of Richard Porter)   d. Bef 25 Dec 1688
  Marriage	Bef 1635  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Sgt. John Porter,   b. Abt 1635   d. 25 Aug 1717, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 82 years) + 2. Mary Porter,   b. Abt 1637 + 3. Ruth Porter,   b. 3 Oct 1639, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Bef 1686 (Age < 46 years)
  Family ID	F16158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1635 on the Marygould as part of the "Hull Colony" emigration led by the Rev. Joseph Hull. One of the first settlers of Weymouth. Made freeman 18 May 1653. Several sources, including Bassett-Preston Ancestors (citation details below) and Josephine C. Frost's Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and Alice Woodward Babcock (1927) give him a wife named Ruth, but as Donald Lines Jacobus points out (The Granberry Family, citation details below), no proof of this has been seen. Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration entry for Richard Porter gives no name for his wife.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2858] Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850: Volume I--Births. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910. [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930. [S3728] Joseph W. Porter, "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, Corrections and Additions." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 46:185, 1892. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [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. [S3727] Bailey Genealogy: James, John, and Thomas, and Their Descendants by Hollis R. Bailey. Somerville, Massachusetts: The Citizen Company, 1899. [S3728] Joseph W. Porter, "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, Corrections and Additions." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 46:185, 1892., years only.