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Facts and Events
| Name |
Thomas Porter |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesor Hartland, Hartford, Connecticut |
| First Communion[3] |
7 Nov 1784 |
West Hartland, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesWest Hartland Congregational Church |
| Marriage |
31 Aug 1786 |
West Hartland, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesWest Hartland Congregational Church
to Phebe Leavitt |
| Occupation[2] |
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Pioneer Baptist preacher and exhorter |
| Death[1][2] |
Abt 1808 |
Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States |
| Burial[1][2] |
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Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United StatesUnmarked grave near Fort Wayne |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Paula Porter Griffin (Mrs. Kenneth E. Griffin). The Family of Daniel Porter "The Bonesetter" at Farmington, Connecticut (1650-1690) and Some of His Descendants Thru the Line of His Son, Nehemiah Porter. (New London, Huron, Ohio, United States: Paula Porter Griffin, 1981)
40, 54-68.
THOMAS PORTER, the son of William Porter probably was born in either Middletown or else in Hartland, Conn. To date no birth or baptismal or Vital Records have been found for him.
By tradition from Thomas' oldest granddaughter, Almira Porter, he died in 1808 on a preaching trip and was buried in an unmarked grave near Ft. Wayne, IN. In the History of Rock County, Wisconsin published in 1879 on page 807 it says in an account concerning his son Philo Thomas Porter that "his father was killed and scalped by Indians in Maumee" (Ohio) and in a an old newspaper clipping, with no date and no paper's name found at the Bartlett Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin it says: "Philo Thomas Porter as a child in Ohio saw the Indians come to a field where his parents were working and saw them scalp his father." Another branch of the family by tradition puts his death about 1810-1811.
Maumee refers to the town of Maumee in Ohio near Toledo. The Maumee river also runs from Maumee to Fort Wayne, Indiana and was a favorite transportation route in the early days.
Thomas was killed just before the Treaty of Fort Wayne, sometimes called the Ten O'clock Line Treaty, was signed. The Treaty obtained 3,000,000 acres of American Indian land for the white settlers of Illinois and Indiana.
Thomas Porter married Phebe Leavit, both of Hartland 31 August 1786. (West Hartland Cong. Ch. Rec.) Phebe's parentage is unknown but by tradition she was the only child and her parents both died about 1763 when she was about two or three years old. Whether Leavit was her real name or the name of the people who raised her is unknown. Also by tradition Phebe was a Mayflower descendant according to Almira Porter Hemenway a grand-daughter. She probably is a descendant of William Leavitt, of Tittleworth, County of Essex, on the East Coast of England. (p. 54)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Griffin, Paula Porter, and Thomas Stephen Neel. The Ancestors of Daniel White, 1777-1836, and his wife, Sarah Ford, 1778-1847, and Their Descendants. (Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, 1979)
242-243.
...By tradition, Thomas was a pioneer Baptist preacher and exhorter.
- ↑ Cooke, Rollin H. (Hillyer). East & West Hartland, Conn., Church Records. (Pittsfield, Massachusetts: self published, 1900)
513.
West Hartland, Connecticut, Church Records
Members Admitted to Communion
7 Nov. 1784, Thomas Porter
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