Person:John Porter (118)

John Porter died in Lancaster County about 1763. Some genealogists identify his father as Thomas Porter who died in Ireland. Most listings on Ancestry identify his father as "Nathaniel" as shown in the descendancy below. This Nathaniel died in near by Adams County PA; This is odd since his supposed children were all living in Chester and Lancaster Counties.

John's will, MySource:Will of John Porter of Drumore Twnshp, Lancaster Co, PA, 1763 in Lancaster Co PA in 1763, naming wife Rebecca and three children

From: Google Books The Lancaster County Colonization Society By William Frederic Worner, Henry Frank Eshleman. OCR errors common, and only partially corrected for.

The father of Colonel Porter was John Porter who came from Ireland to this township of Drumore in the early thirties of the eighteenth century. He brought with him the courage of the pioneer immigrant and that bravery an Irishman has never lacked. He must have brought with him also a certain amount of money, for he took up under the Proprietors a tract of land of some 350 acres, where we now stand and where his son. Col. Thomas Porter, was born about 1738 or '39. John Porter's wife answered to the good old Scriptural name of Rebecca and bore him five children, two sons, Thomas (the subject of this sketch). William, and three daughters, all the latter being married at the time of his death save Violet, who marred two years later.^[2] He died on this Drumore farm in 1765.

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   MySource:Will of John Porter of Drumore Twnshp, Lancaster Co, PA, 1763

2. ↑ His will identifies sons William and Thomas, and daugher Violet. The other two daughters may not have been named because they were married. Alternatively, there was only one daughter.