User talk:Ben Porter

Permission to quote email [29 May 2009]

You have my permission, Bill. Thanks for asking. best regards, Ben

On May 29, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Bill wrote: Ben I'd like to include this (and other communictions from you) on the WeRelate site. I've started keeping notebooks there with information drawn from where ever, but including in particular information others have sent me via email. This way its possible to keep track of the information that comes in, and hopefully, make use of it in future analysis. But to do this I need your permission. Thanks PS, Dan has agreed to this in the past, so I've been placeing his notes into notebooks on WeRelate for awhile now. Here's a recent example http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Notebook:Porter_Family_in_Old_Chester_County Since I've started doing this with Dan, Patrick hasn't come up much, so there's not much here as yet. Your post below would probably go on this page. Bill

Samuel Porter [20 March 2012]

--RBH 22:51, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

I read your post on the Chester, Lancaster County, PA about Samuel Porter who was a school teacher in Drumore Twp. You said you were waiting on a birth certificate for him. I am curious as to what you found out. This is quoted from " A family History of William Porter Jr.of Rockbridge County, Virginia 1740-1804" "Another reason for believing that this William Porter (Sr.)was not born in Virgina is that at least one Porter who appears to have been his brother was from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Samuel Porter, a school master from Dromore Township, secured a patent for 300 acres of land below the forks of the Buffalo in 1748. This land was just a few miles from William Porter's later purchases in the Borden Tract. There is a court record in Augusta County of paymentsfor improvements on Samuel Porter's plantation below Buffalo Creek in 1753. THere is also a record of his marriage to Eve Johnson and the indenture of her child. Samuel Porter sold this land to James Cryden, a neighbor of William Porter, in 1756 and John Mitchell, son-in-law of said Wm. Porter, handled the transaction."--RBH 23:11, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Samuel Porter [20 March 2012]

--RBH 22:51, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Samuel Porter [20 March 2012]

--RBH 22:51, 19 March 2012 (EDT)