Hugh Porter (1797 - bef. 1870)

So, no, Rising doesn't mention Alexander Porter's ancestors. She does quote his records several times as he was pastor of the Hopewell Church for quite some time. For a while, I thought that perhaps the name 'Hopewell' was after one of the pre-revolutionary churches in S.C., I now think the name may have hearkened back to one of the five ships mentioned in my other note. There was some kind of split over the issue of slavery that was why folks left SC and came to Ohio - and the Hopewell church was clearly abolitionist from day one.

I havent seen the stuff from the family Bible - the closest I came was a copy of his pastor record book in the Miami University library in Oxford OH - way back in the 1990's. But a grandson or great-grandson, H. Leonard Porter (someplace in Florida at the time) has published a book titled, in part "Destiny of the Scots-Irish ..." or something like that, which I wouldn't mind finding and reading someday. It might contain something on the Porter family history along with tracing their journey from Scotland and Northern Ireland to here. There is also a work by Jean Stephenson on this aspect of the Irish migration, which includes some of the material on the 5 ships that Rev. William Martin organized for members of his congregation(s) to leave Ireland for the US in the early 1770's. My ancestors were on one of the ships that arrived in Charleston SC in 1772. My cousin has actually moved down there in retirement and literally lives within 10 miles of where our ancestors stepped onto land in this continent. Three of my ancestors helped to finance Rev. Porter coming to Ohio from Abbeville, and one of them also married a woman from the Abbeville community.

Would his parents be Porter-16110 and Cochran-4381?