Samuel Porterfield Sr. (1726 - 1789)

Born 1726 in County Donegal, Ireland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1789 at about age 63 in Atkinson Mills, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Porterfield Name Study.

Samuel Porterfield Sr. migrated from Ireland to United States.

Samuel Porterfield was born in 1726 in County Donegal, Ireland. He came to America with his parents and 7 siblings around 1730. The family initially lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Samuel moved to Lancaster County and eventually settled in Cumberland County. He passed away in 1789. ^[1]

Service in the American Revolution

Private Samuel Porterfield Sr. served with Cumberland County Militia, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution.

Samuel served as a private in the Revolutionary War in the Cumberland County Militia. He served under Captain Robert Shannon. ^[2]

Samuel is one of ten Porterfields recognized as a DAR Patriot (as of October 2022). His son Samuel Porterfield is also recognized as a DAR patriot.^[3][4]

Land Records

Tax records of 1779 and 1785 have Samuel in Cumberland, Pennsylvania.^[5][6]

And index of a land warrant in Cumberland from 1784 exists.^[7] Land Warrants of 224 acres place Samuel in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1788.^[8]

Death

He died in 1789 and was buried at Atkinson Mills Methodist Cemetery in Atkinson Mills, MIfflin County, Pennsylvania.^[9]

Research Notes

There are two separate Samuel Porterfields mentioned in the Pennsylvania Archives Muster Rolls. This one served under Colonel James Dunlap. Samuel's son William married Mary Shannon, daughter of Robert Shannon. The other Samuel, who worked as a horseman, is Samuel's son.

Sources

1. ↑ Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), p. 60, 165, digital images, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066246737;view=1up;seq=173. Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed 24 October 2019).
2. ↑ Pennsylvania Archives, Muster Rolls relating to the Associators and Militias of the County of Cumberland (1874), pp. 16, 67, 402, 428, 436, 446, 628. https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniaarch30penn/#page/16/mode/2up/search/Porterfield; digital image, Open Library (https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniaarch30penn).
3. ↑ DAR Patriot Index (Washington D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1966), p. 543
4. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 13 March 2016), "Record of Samuel Porterfield, Sr.", Ancestor # A091369.
5. ↑ Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 324. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-c&MSAV=1&msbdy=1726&cp=0&h=1064385&recoff=5+6&db=PATaxAndExoneration&indiv=1
6. ↑ Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 325. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-c&msbdy=1726&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=ik2&h=1899160&db=PATaxAndExoneration&indiv=1
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Land Warrants, 1733-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Index of Early Pennsylvania Land Warrants, 1733–1987, from the Pennsylvania State Archives. Stevens, Pennsylvania: Ken McCrea, 2010. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-c&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&msbdy=1726&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=ik2&h=104201&db=PALandWarrants&indiv=1
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives. Land Warrants. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-c&gsln_x=0msbdy=1726&catbucket=rstp&uidh=ik2&pcat=36&h=193100&db=PAWarrants&indiv=1
9. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 11 April 2016), memorial page for Samuel Porterfield, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25909644. No headstone picture.

See more:

• Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.