Thomas Porter (1672 - abt. 1754)

Born 3 Feb 1672 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Holbrook) Porter — married 1695 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1754 at about age 81 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Biography

"Thomas Porter, of Thomas Porter, b. Feb. 3, 1671/2. He was a cordwainer. Removed from Weymouth to Taunton, about 1701. ... He married Abigail, daughter of Capt. John and Abigail (Pierce of Capt. Michael,) Holbrook. She was born 1675. He died about 1754, as his estate was divided in that year." ^[1]

Birth

3 FEB 1672

Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA^[2]

Death

1754

Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Paul Cockrill for creating WikiTree profile Porter-3631 through the import of Cockrill gedcom.GED on Mar 12, 2013.

Porter-8263 was created by Debbie Pierce through the import of Deborah Smith Family Tree 2015.ged on Sep 10, 2015.

• Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.

The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Book Title: A Genealogy of the descendants of Richard Porter, who settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1635, and allied families : also, some account of the descendants of John Porter, who settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635, and Salem, (Danvers) Massachusetts, 1644

Sources

1. ↑ Porter, Joseph Whitcomb (1824-1901) “A genealogy of the descendants of Richard Porter, who settled at Weymouth, Mass”, Published 1878 by Burr & Robinson, Bangor. (P.23) Online: https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00port#page/12/mode/2up
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45Y-J4V : 4 December 2014), Thomas Porter in entry for Thomas Porter, 03 Feb 1672; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 153; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.