John Porter (1766 - 1837)

Born 23 Apr 1766 in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Dinah (Thomas) Porter — married 1785 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 4 Jul 1837 at age 71 in Ulysses, Tompkins, New York, United States

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Biography

When John Porter was born on April 23, 1766, in Danbury, Connecticut, his father, Joshua Porter, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 36. He married Dinah Thomas in 1785 in Fairfield, Connecticut. John was a farmer all his life although family tradition says that he served for a short time in the War of 1812.

He and Dinah lived near Danbury, Connecticut until after their twelfth and last child was born in 1807, when John caught the spirit of westward migration which was opening up the rich lands of western New York and the Ohio regions.Traveling westward by the slow means of locomotion of the early days of the nineteenth century, the family finally took up their permanent residence in the beautiful Finger Lake country on a farm in Ulysses Township, [now Tompkins,then] Seneca County, N.Y.

He , was listed on "A General Return of Persons Names Qualified to serve as Jurors in the Town of Ulysses and County of Seneca." (Ulysses Town Book 1795-1856);

According to another Porter descendant, William W. Porter of Minneapolis, Minnesota, John was a Baptist Deacon. Numerous records indicate that some of his children were also devout Baptists

He died July 4, 1837 in Ulysses, N.Y. and his will was probated there. It is said that he died while at dinner at an inn at Trumansbur at the age of 71.

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Sources

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~streeter/porter.pdf