This book provides a fascinating genealogy of the Porter family, one of the most important families in early American history. With detailed information on the descendants of Richard Porter and John Porter, as well as other allied families, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in genealogy or the history of early American families. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

John Porter was born in England about 1596 and immigrated in 1637 to Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1643 he moved to Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts. He died in 1676.

William Porter (ca.1710-1782), probably of Scotch-Irish lineage, purchased land in Orange County, Virginia in 1742. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, California and elsewhere.

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Excerpt from A Porter Pedigree: Being an Account of the Ancestry and Descendants of Samuel and Martha (Perley) Porter of Chester, N. H., Who Were Descendants of John Porter, of Salem, Mass; And of Allan Perley, of Ipswich, Mass The compiler of this volume had no thought of printing a book when she began her researches in family history. But after a time, it seemed well to attempt to introduce the many members of the family to each other, and no feasible way of doing this occurred to the writer, except the printing of this pedigree. The first plan was to print every will, every inventory, every deed, in fact, every legal document to be found; all the traditions, memories, stories, that could be collected; and to add a personal description whenever possible, with a short biographical sketch. But the mass of material became so great, that it became evident that some more concise volume must first be prepared, in order to find out if anything more would be desired. In the preparation of this volume, many books have been consulted; visits have been made to the Essex County Registry of Deeds, at Salem; the services of professional genealogists have been seemed; many letters have been written; and personal visits have been made to those who could give valuable information. Early in 1903 circulars were sent to those of the family who could not readily be consulted otherwise, and at this time, (1907) about one-third of these remain unanswered, though each contained a stamped and addressed envelope. The circulars which were returned frequently contained conflicting information, as when four members of one family, each gave a different date for the death of the mother, these dates varying by more than a year. The church record sometimes is unlike the town record, and the gravestone inscription is not always like the family record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.