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Rachel Porter Chittenden was the daughter of Abner Porter and Anna. Anna's last name is not known at this time. Rachel was born in Tolland, Connecticut on June 5, 1770.
Rachel married Cornelius Chittenden at First Church (Congregational) in Killingworth, Connecticut on December 29, 1791. According to Talcott, Rachel and Cornelius had 17 children, 10 sons and 7 daughters, but Talcott names only 6 children.[1] I have been able to find 9 children: Rachel (1792-1816), Susan (1795-1875), Mehitable I (1798-1799), Polly (1796-1804), Anne (1802-1804), Mehitable II (1806-1830), Polly Ann (1808-1829), James Porter (1810-1853), and Albert Cornelius (1812-1878).
Rachel died in Westbrook, Connecticut in 1848 at age 78. She is buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard on South Main Street in Westbrook, CT.[2]
Talcott, Alvan, "Chittenden Family: William Chittenden of Guilford, Conn. and His Descendants," p. 79, Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1882.
Also, notes made by Kathryn Chittenden Haines after her visit to St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard in Westbrook, CT.
1770 - Birth Record of Rachel Porter naming Abner Porter father:
1799 - cited in death record of daughter, Mehitable:
1830 - cited in death record of daughter Mehitable Chittenden Norris:
1848 - Death of Rachel Porter Chittenden:
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