Samuel Porter


Born:Hingham, Massachusetts Colony1637
Died:Wenham, Massachusetts Colony1660
Married:Hannah Dodge
d. William Dodge
Salem, Massachusetts Colony
Abt. 1658
Father:John Porter
Mother:Mary Endicott
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Children by: Hannah (Dodge) Porter

1.John PorterWenham, Massachusetts Colony
1658


New England Marriages Prior to 1700
By Clarence Almon Torrey

PORTER, Samuel (-1660) & Hannah [DODGE] (1642-1689), m/2 Thomas WOODBURY 1661; by 1658; Salem {Reg. 46:387, 88:195, 391; Wildes Anc. 138; Dodge (1892) 5; Dodge (1894) 15, 21; Vineland Hist. Mag. 11:110; Salem 1:83, 2:161; EIHC 1:93, 35:265; Aspinwall Not. Rec. 123; Dawes-Gates 2:323; Essex Ant. 8:101; Putnam's Mag. 3:274; Gen Mag. 2:131-2}

WOODBERRIE, Thomas & 1/wf Hannah (DODGE) PORTER (1642-), w Samuel; 2 Dec 1661; Salem/Beverly {Reg. 46:385, 388; Salem 1:83, 161; Dawes-Gates 2:323; Dodge (1892) 5; Dodge (1894) 15; EIHC 35:265}


Samuel Porter inherited land from his father at Wenham and lived there until his death in 1660. He died only two years after his only son was born, and his wife remarried to Thomas Woodbury in 1661. His wife was born in 1642 and died in 1689. Samuel's farm at Wenham passed to his only son John.


Samuel Porter makes "my father-in-law Wm Dodge" one of the overseers of his 10 February 1658[/9] will [ EPR 1:306, 3:43]

Source EPR: The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920=semi rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).

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