Ancestry of
Sidney Porter

(1790–1848)

Thomas Porter

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sidney Porter — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Robert Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Scott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Oct 1650 
  • Birth Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Cowles
  • Marriage Date:
  • May 1678 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Porter (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Thomas Porter

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Birth record for son William Porter.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Death record for Thomas Porter.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Birth record for Thomas Porter.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/26/2022).
  • ⁵ Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. 6, 1864-1871, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1905), 153.
  • ⁶ Cowles, Col. Calvin Duvall, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America, Vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1929), 38-39.
  • ⁷ Hurlburt, Mabel S., Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times (1645-1940), Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Finlay Brothers (1943), 369.