Ancestry of
William Williams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Samuel Porter Jr.

View famous kin of Samuel Porter

• • Grandfather of William Williams — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Stanley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Apr 1660 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jul 1722 
  • Death Location:
  • Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Cooke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Feb 1683 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Aaron Porter

  Mary Porter (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Eleazer Porter

• Additional marriages for Samuel Porter Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Hawley

• Sources for Samuel Porter Jr.

  • ¹ Amherst, MA: Vital Records, p. 435, Marriage record for Samuel Porter and Joannah Cook.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ³ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Birth record for son Aron Porter.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, Birth record for Samll. Porter.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16, p. 53.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 522.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 743.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 141.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39, 52.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 449, 461, 479.
  • ¹² Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), p. 871, Birth record for Samuel Porter.
  • ¹³ Schutz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, Boston: Northeastern University Press (1997), p. 872, Death record for Samuel Porter.
  • ¹⁴ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 11.
  • ¹⁵ Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 21.