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]
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.
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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.
*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
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