Ancestry of
Welthea Porter

(1813–1896)

John Porter

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Welthea Porter — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • John Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Sybil Vessey   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Jun 1594 
  • Christening Location:
  • Felsted, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1648 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Oct 1620 
  • Marriage Location:
  • All Saints Church, Messing, Essex, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Porter

  Sarah Porter

  Rebecca Porter

  Samuel Porter (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Mary Porter

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list John's wife as Rose, but this appears to be incorrect.

• Sources for John Porter

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, p. 29.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1941, Vol. 18, p. 59.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1974, Vol. 50, p. 74.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16, pp. 49-53.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 29, p. 210.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 2005, Vol. 80, p. 221.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 25.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 793.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1979.
  • ¹⁰ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 270.
  • ¹¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 461.
  • ¹² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 423.
  • ¹³ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 1-3.
  • ¹⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 471.
  • ¹⁵ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 109.
  • ¹⁶ Coddington, John Insley, John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut, and his Parents, Olivet, Michigan: Reprinted from "The American Genealogist" (1941), 1-5.
  • ¹⁷ Cook, Alva and Lydia Cooper, Alva Cook and Lydia Cooper: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Washington, D.C.: M.N. Stockberger (1958), 49-50.
  • ¹⁸ Grant, Arthur Hastings, The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. 1601-1898, Poughkeepsie, New York: Press of A.V. Haight (1898), 2.
  • ¹⁹ Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 165.
  • ²⁰ Prudden, Lillian E., Peter Prudden: A Story of His Life at New Haven and Milford, Conn. with the Genealogy of Some of His Descendants . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1901), 65.
  • ²¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ²² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ²³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 449.
  • ²⁴ Stiles, Henry R., The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-1891, Vol. 2: Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: The Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1892), 304.
  • ²⁵ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 11.