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O. Henry

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O. Henry

Short Story Writer


    William Porter

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    • Great-grandfather of O. Henry — 4th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 4 Feb 1745 
    • Birth Location:
    • prob. Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 6 Mar 1826 
    • Death Location:
    • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Greenwood Cemetery, Avon, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 26 or 30 MAY 1776 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
    • Children:

    • Elizur Porter

      Eunice Porter

      Romanta Porter

      Ursula Porter

      Cynthia Porter

      Sidney Porter

      Sidney Porter (Ahnentafel No:4 )

      David Porter

      Elizur Porter

      Annah L. Porter

      John P. Porter

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  • Sources for William Porter

    • 1 Chauncey Lusk Papers, 1793-1858: Biographical Sketch, Old Sturbridge Village Research Library, Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
    • 7 Family Register of William Porter and Sarah Lusk, (original in the possession of descendant Kathy Russell-Regan, OCT 2021).
    • 8 Family Tree for Family of Sidney Porter and Ruth Coffin Worth, (original in the possession of Kathy Russell-Regan, descendant of Sidney's brother Romanta, OCT 2021).
    • 9 Farmington First Congregational Church Records, FHL No 4199687, Image 332, Baptisms for children of Wm Porter.
    • 10 Farmington, CT: Church Records, 1652-1938, FHL No. 4199687, Image 266, Marriage record for William Porter and Sarah Lusk.
    • 11 Farmington, CT: Land Records, 1645-1905, FHL No 8465902, Image 599, Deed identifying William Porter's mother as Annah Lewis.
    • 13 Federal Census, CT, Hartford County, 1820, Farmingrton, p. 123, Image 15 of 23.
    • 17 Farnam, Charles H., History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1889), 513.
    • 18 Webster, William Holcomb and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: With Numerous Portraits and Illustrations, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1915), 427.