Ancestry of
Sidney Porter

(1790–1848)

William Porter

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• • Great-grandfather of Sidney Porter — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Cowles   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Oct 1682 
  • Birth Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Nov 1766 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jun 1711 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  David Porter (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Mary Porter

  Lydia Porter

  John Porter

  William Porter

  Joseph Porter

  John Porter

• Sources for William Porter

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, pp. 132-134, Birth records for children of William Porter.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Marriage record for William Porter and Mary Smith.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Farmington, p. 136, Birth record for William Porter.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/17/2022).
  • 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.
  • ⁷ Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 502.
  • ⁸ Hurlburt, Mabel S., Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times (1645-1940), Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Finlay Brothers (1943), 369.