John Porter


Born:Wenham, Massachusetts Colony1658
Died:Wenham, Massachusetts Colony1753
Married:Lydia Herrick
d. Henry Herrick & lydia
Wenham, Massachusetts Colony
Abt. 1680
Father:Samuel Porter
Mother:Hannah Dodge
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Children by: Lydia (Herrick) Porter

1.Samuel PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
February 17, 1680/81
2.John PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
1683
3.Hannah PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
November 24, 1687
4.Nehemiah PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
1691
5.Benjamin PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
1692
6.Jonathan PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
September 11, 1696
7.Mehitable PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
October 14, 1698
8.Mary PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
July 20, 1700
9.Elizabeth PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
Circa 1702
10.Sarah PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
1706
11.Lydia PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
Circa 1707


New England Marriages Prior to 1700
By Clarence Almon Torrey

PORTER, John (1658-1733) & Lydia [HERRICK] (1661, 1666-1738); by 1687, by 1681?; Wenham/Salem {Vineland Hist. Mag. 11:110; Salem 1:305; Boxford Hist. 403; Aspinwall Not. Rec. 123; Herrick 26; Dodge (1894) 62; White (#12) 50; Dawes-Gates 2:429; TAG 14:155; Reg. 88:195}

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
NEHGS

1681  PORTER  Samuel, Sergt., Feb. 17, 1681.                  Birth  Wenham   
1687  PORTER  Hannah, d. John, Nov. 24, 1687. CT. R.          Birth  Wenham   
1696  PORTER  Jonathan, s. John and Lideah, Sept.11, 1696.    Birth  Wenham   
1698  PORTER  Mehetabell, d. John and Lideah, Oct. 14, 1698.  Birth  Wenham   
1700  PORTER  Marey, d. John and Lideah, July 20, 1700.       Birth  Wenham 

John Porter inherited his father's farm at Wenham and lived at it until his death in 1753, in his 95th year. He was a prominent man of the town, and was three times elected to the General Court.

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