Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

John Porter

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 852 
  • Father:
  • John Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Anna White   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Feb 1622/1623 
  • Christening Location:
  • Felsted, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Stanley
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1651 
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  John Porter (Ahnentafel No:426 )

  Mary Porter

  Ruth Porter

• Sources for John Porter

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 241, Birth and baptism records for Ruth Porter.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1939, Vol. 16, pp. 52-53.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 461.
  • ⁵ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 137.
  • ⁶ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 2, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 1271.

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