Person:Richard Porter (1)
Richard Porter
b.Abt 1612
d.Bet 25 Dec 1688 and 6 Mar 1688/89 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Richard PorterAbt 1612 - Bet 1688 & 1688/89
  • W.  UnknownBef 1615 - Bef 1688
m. Bef 1635
  1. Sergeant John PorterEst 1635 - 1717
  2. Mary PorterEst 1637 - Aft 1682
  3. Ruth Porter1639 - Bef 1686
  4. Thomas PorterEst 1641 - Bef 1672
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Name[1] Richard Porter
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1612
Marriage Bef 1635 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (John).
to Unknown
Occupation[1][2][3] 1635 Husbandman.
Residence[1] 1635 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Emigration[1][2][3] 20 Mar 1634/35 On the Marygould.
Other[1][2][5] 18 May 1653 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Will[1][2] 25 Dec 1688 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2] Bet 25 Dec 1688 and 6 Mar 1688/89 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesBetween date of will and date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1][2] 6 Mar 1688/89 £80, of which £72 was real estate.
Probate[1] 26 Dec 1689 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Richard Porter, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    5:494-97.

    "ORIGIN: Unknown.
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Marygould (on 20 March 1634/5. 'Rich[ard] Porter, husbandman.' aged 3 [sic], was enrolled at Weymouth as a passenger for New England on the Marygould [Hotten 286: GMN 7:91). …
    BIRTH: About 1612 (assuming the age on the passenger list was intended for 23, which would be consistent with the estimated date of marriage)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 1. Richard Porter, in Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923)
    4:485.

    "1. Richard Porter, husbandman, came in Rev. Joseph Hull's Company, sailing from Weymouth in Dorset, on or near 20 Mar. 1634-35. He was one of the twenty-one families 'to sit down at Wessaguscus,' 8 July, 1635. He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 18 May, 1653. (Register, 3:192.) He died at Weymouth between 25 Dec. 1688, and 6 Mar. 1688-89. He made his will at Weymouth, 25 Dec. 1688, and the inventory of his estate was taken 6 Mar. 1688-89. To his grandchild Thomas Porter, only son of his son Thomas Porter, deceased, he gave his dwelling house, barn, orchard and land adjoining, and other lands at 21 years. If said grandchild die before 21 the estate to go to his grandchild Ruth Richards on conditions, or to his son John. To his grandchild Samuel Bayley two acres on King Oak Hill. To his daughter Mary Bicknell £10. Remainder of estate to his son John Porter. His friends James Lovell, Sr., and Thomas Reed, overseers. Witnesses: Abiah Whitman, Zachariah Bicknell and Stephen French, Sr. (Porter Genealogy, 8, 9.)

    He was granted one of the great lots 'on the east side of Fresh Pond' 2 Feb. 1651-52, and ten acres in the first Division and thirty acres in the Second Division, 14 Dec. 1663. (Weymouth Land Grants, 281, 282, 284.)"

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Appleton, William S. More Passengers for New England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    25:15.

    "106 Rich: Porter husband 3"

    Richard Porter is listed as the last passenger on list of passengers who embarked from England in Hull's Company. He is identified as a "husband" vs. "husbandman" and the number 3 is listed afterwards. Obviously, he was not age 3. The number might stand for an age of 3x years or three people in his party.

  4.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:462.

    "RICHARD, Weymouth, had Ruth, b. 3 Oct. 1639; was freem. 1653."

  5. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:192.
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