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Daniel Porter (abt. 1620 - 1690)

Dr Daniel Porter
Born about in Englandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 70 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap
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Biography

Daniel Porter, Sr. of Farmington, Connecticut, made a deed of gift in lieu of a will on 15 August 1688. In this, he gifted to his wife, Mary, and to the following, his children:[1]

  1. Daniel Porter[1] b. 2 Feb 1652[2]
  2. Daughter whose name was not given[1] Mary Porter b. 5 Oct 1654[2]
  3. Nehemiah[1] b. 25 Oct 1656[2]
  4. Richard[1] b. 24 March 1658[2]
  5. Anna[1] Ann, b. 7 Mar 1660[2]
  6. John[1] b. abt 14 Nov 1662[2]
  7. Samuel[1] b. 24 Oct 1665[2]

A court record 9 April 1690: The son of Daniel Porter, Bonesetter, of Farmington, presented a Deed of Gift whereby his Father disposed of his Estate. Approved as his Will & Deed.[1]


Doctor Daniel PORTER was born calculated 1630 married Mary.

New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ... - Page 1584 edited by William Richard Cutter - New England - 1913

PORTER

Dr. Daniel Porter, immigrant PORTER ancestor, was one of the first physicians of the colony. He was doubtless born in England. He came to Connecticut early. He was fined. March 16, 1644-45, for some trivial offense by the particular court. He was licensed to practice physic and chirurgery by the general court of Connecticut. In 1661 a yearly salary of six pounds was ordered paid him out of the public treasury and his "fee-table" was established by law. He was a celebrated bone-setter, as the surgeons were commonly called. He settled in Farmington, Connecticut, but was required to attend on the sick in Hartford, Windsor, Wethersfield and occasionally Middletown. In 1668 he was "freed from watching warding Tryneing (training)" and in the following year a special grant was made him by the general court for his services, a hundred acres laid out afterward in the northwest corner of Wallingford. This tract proved not in the colony land, and in 1728 on petition of his grandson. Daniel Porter, son of Daniel and Hezekiah Porter, of Woodbury, son of Dr. Richard Porter of New Haven, one hundred acres were granted instead, west of the Housatonic river. In 1671 his salary was raised to twelve pounds as "incouragement for setting bones," and the court "advised him to instruct some meet person in his art." Evidently he instructed his son Daniel. His sons Richard and Samuel also became bone-setters. He was not on the list of freemen in 1669, but was in 1672. He died in 1690.

He married Mary.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.Volume 1. Hartford District 1635-1700. Hartford, Conn., R.S. Peck & Co., Printers, 1904. pp 497/8
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Farmington. White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. p. 309+
  • Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five., New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896, Ap106.
  • William Richard Cutter, A.M., New England Families, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 286. "

*Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. *U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. America; Year: 1644; Page Number: 228


... immigrant ancestor of this family, was one of the first physicians of the colony of Connecticut ..."

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Daniel Porter couldn't have been born in Farmington in 1634 (or 1630, according to the calculated date in the bio), since the first English settlers there came in 1640, from Hartford: [1] He also doesn't seem to have an entry in Anderson's Great Migration study. Finally, the source quoted here says he was "doubtless born in England." I have therefore changed the Place of Birth to England (uncertain).
posted by Susan Anderson
Porter-7204 and Porter-332 appear to represent the same person because: All these children of children of Dr. Daniel Porter of Farmington
posted by Anne B

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