Person:Thomas Porter (45)

Moved with parents from Prince Edward Co, VA early in life. Early member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church (Logan/Butler Co) from before 1808 to sometime after 1812. (Church minutes) Licensed by Logan Presbytery - November 20, 1818. Ordained by Logan Presbytery - April 6, 1820.^[4] Founding minister of Cumberland Presbyterian Church.^[5]

Granted 100 acres at Little Muddy Creek, Butler Co, 5 Oct 1824.^[6] Later moved to Logan Co, where he taught school (son Hershel was one of the pupils).

After his father-in-law Thomas Lawrence passed away in 1835, he served as executor of the Lawrence estate.^[7]

Census

• 1810 Butler Co, KY: 0 0 1 0 0 / 1 0 1 0 0 (that u10 daughter should be a son)
• 1820 Butler Co, KY: Thomas Porter 2 1 (0) 0 1 0 / 0 0 1 1 0 plus 4 male slaves and one female.
• 1830 Butler Co, KY 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 / 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 plus 3 young male, 3 teen male, 3 young female and one adult female slave. (

Will

His will names wife Jane H. Porter; directs that tract be purchased by executores for $2000 for her and, at her death, to be divided equally among the children. 600 acres in Hopkins Co, KY to be divided between sons Hershel L., Bradford L., and Nathaniel L. Wife gets 1/3 of all personal estate. She is to have 2 Negroess howlett and Ninian, then they are assigned ot the three youngest children Virgil, Caroline, and Baxter Chapman. Nathaniel L. Porter and Finis E. McLean executors.

References

1. ↑ Battle, J.H., and W.H. Perrin. Counties of Todd and Christian, Kentucky: historical and biographical. (Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1884).
2. ↑ Glenwood Cemetery.
3. ↑ Recorded date
4. ↑ Cumberland Presbyterian Church Library and Archives
5. ↑ Porter, John M. “History of Our Family Connection.”
6. ↑ KY Land Grants, Book P, p. 400. Ancestry.com
7. ↑ Email from Steve Lawrence