Person:John Porter (98)
John Porter
b.Est 1608
d.Aft 25 Apr 1674
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  1. Hannah PorterEst 1630 - 1722
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Name John Porter
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Est 1608
Marriage Bet 1612 and 1633 to Margaret Unknown
Immigration[2] 1633
Residence[2] 1633 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[2] Bef 1637 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[2] 1638 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Residence[2] Aft 1665 Pettaquamscutt Lake Shores, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
Death[2] Aft 25 Apr 1674
Reference Number? Q16854013?


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John Porter was an early colonist in New England and a signer of the Portsmouth Compact, establishing the first government in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He joined the Roxbury church with his wife Margaret in 1633, but few other records are found of him while in the Massachusetts Bay Colony until he became involved with John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson during what is known as the Antinomian Controversy. He and many others were disarmed for signing a petition in support of Wheelwright and were compelled to leave the colony. Porter joined a group of more than 20 men in signing the Portsmouth Compact for a new government, and they settled on Rhode Island where they established the town of Portsmouth. Here Porter became very active in civic affairs, serving on numerous committees over a period of two decades and being elected for several terms as Assistant, Selectman, and Commissioner. He was named in Rhode Island's Royal Charter of 1663 as one of the ten Assistants to the Governor.

In 1658, Porter joined several others in purchasing a large tract of land on the west side of Narragansett Bay, called the Pettaquamscutt Purchase, which became South Kingstown, Rhode Island. He eventually moved to his new land, leaving his aging wife behind. She sued for support, and the sympathetic court impounded Porter's estate until he made restitution, which he did within a few months. Porter later had a relationship with Herodias Gardiner, the former common-law wife of George Gardiner; he was charged with cohabiting with her but was acquitted. He might not have married her, but she did cosign several deeds with him in 1671.

Porter had only one known child, Hannah, who married a son of Portsmouth Compact signer Samuel Wilbore. His step-daughter Sarah Odding married compact signer Philip Sherman.

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  1. ↑ John Porter (settler), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1501-3.

    ORIGIN: Unknown
    MIGRATION: 1633
    FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
    REMOVES: Boston by 1637, Portsmouth 1638, Pettaquamscutt after 1655

    BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of first marriage
    DEATH: After 25 April 1674 [RILE 1:111]

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