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Seth Low

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Thomas Porter

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• • Great-grandfather of Seth Low — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Porter 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Clark   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 May 1751 
  • Birth Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1785 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Porter (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Thomas Porter

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1899, Vol. 3, No. 12, p. 192.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 89, Birth record for Thomas Porter.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 4, p. 211, Marriage record for Thomas Porter and Ruth Allin.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1881, Vol. 12, p. 171.
  • ⁵ Haskell Family Association, Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmel Magna (1490-1542), (accessed 06/05/2020).
  • ⁶ Porter, Joseph W., A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and Allied Families, Bangor: Burr and Robinson, Printers (1878), 251, 269.
  • ⁷ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 229.