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Richard Porter

Richard Porter[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]

Male Abt 1612 - 1688  (~ 76 years)


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  • Name Richard Porter 
    Birth Abt 1612  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 10] 
    • NEXUS has 1601
    Gender Male 
    Migration Mar 1635  From Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19] 
    To Wessaguscus (Wessagusset) plantation
    aboard Marygould 
    • The ship arrived on 5 May.
    • Role: Passenger
    Freeman 18 May 1653  [10] 
    Office 1661  Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    committee to repair the meeting house
    Will 25 Dec 1688  [10, 20, 21] 


    • I, Richard Porter, of Weymouth, In New England, being apprehensive of my near approaching departure out of this world, and being through the mercy of God of a short memory and disposing mind; trusting in the mercy of God through ye Lord Jesus Christ for Etternall Life: Do make this my last will and testament as folowth:
      Item: I do give and bequeath unto my grandchild, Thomas Porter, the only sone of my sone Thomas Porter, deceased, my now dwelling house and barn and orchard, the swampy meadow, and ye land adjoining ffrom ye swampy land of James Lovelll, and Joseph Dyer, downward along by ye country highway, so far as the gate by which wee did turne out of the highway into ye feild comonly called ye middle gate, and from that gate crose ye feild upon a streight line into ye land now in ye ocupation of John Blanchett (Blanchard.)
      Also, I give unto my said grandchild tlie one full halfe of my lott of land being in the second devision of common lott, the divission to be made when ye said Thomas shall come to ye age of twenty years; always provided, and it is my will, that if ye said Thomas shall dye before he come to ye age of twenty years, that then the foresaid estate shall be and remaine so, to my grandchild Ruth Richards, and the heirs borne of her body, if any be then living, if not then to return to my sone John, to him and his heirs: my will is that ye said Thomas Porter shall have the income of his part of ye estate immediately after my decease.
      I give and bequath unto my Grandchild, Samuel Bayley, that my two Acres of Land on King Oak Hill.
      Also I give and bequath unto my daughter, Mary Bicknell, ten pounds of my estate to be paid by my Executors after my decease.
      All the rest of my estate not before given by this my will, I give and bequeath to my sone, John Porter, whom I do make, constitute, and appoint my sole executor to this my last will and testament, and I do desire and appoint my loving ffriends, James Lovell, sen'r, and Thomas Reed, as overseers to this my last will and testament, in all respects that it may be fulflled; and I do hereby make void and null all other former wills by me made and declared, and do declare and publish this to be my last will and testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, the five & twentieth day of December, in ye year of ye Lord one thousand six hundred eighty and eight, in ye fourth year of his Majesty's reign James the Second, by ye grace of God, King of England, and defender of ye faith.
      RICHARD X PORTER,
      Signed, sealed and published in presence of Abiah Whitman, Zechariah Bicknell, Stephen Ffrench, sen'r.
    Death Between 25 Dec 1688 and 6 Mar 1688/9  Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 20] 
    Inventory 6 Mar 1688/9  [10, 20] 


    • An Inventory of ye estate of Richard Porter, late of Weymouth, deceased, appraised by ye subscribers.

      To his purse and wearing apparell 03.00.00
      To 1 ffeather bed and bedding 04.10.00
      To 1 Chest and 5 Chaires 00.06.00
      To a dwelling house, barn and orcliard, and about ten acres
      of land adjoining 40.00.00
      To 2 Acres of land in King Oak Hill 04.00.00
      To 9 Acres of pasture land 18.00.00
      To 1 piece of salt meadow upon ye Back river 08.00.00
      To 1 lott of land in ye second devision 02.00.00
      To 1 broad ax and adds 00.04.00
      Sumar. 80.00.00

      Signed, John Porter, Stephen French, Joseph Green.
    Occupation husbandman  [10]
    Probate 26 Dec 1689  [10] 
    Person ID I8442  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 6 Jan 2020 

    Father Samuel Porter 
    Mother ________ ________ 
    Family ID F3310  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ruth ________,   b. BY Abt 1617   d. Bef 25 Dec 1688 (Age ~ 71 years)  [7, 20] 
    Marriage BY Abt 1635  [1, 2, 5, 10, 20] 
    Children 
     1. Sgt. John Porter,   b. SAY 1635, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Mary Porter,   b. SAY 1637, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1688 (Age ~ 50 years)
     3. Ruth Porter,   b. 3 Oct 1639, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Thomas Porter,   b. SAY 1641, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1672 (Age ~ 31 years)
    Family ID F3304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1612 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMigration - To Wessaguscus (Wessagusset) plantation,aboard Marygould  - Mar 1635 - Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffice - committee to repair the meeting house - 1661 - Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Between 25 Dec 1688 and 6 Mar 1688/9 - Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Coats of Arms
    Porter Coat of Arms    		Porter Coat of Arms

  • Notes 

    • On list of passengers leaving Weymouth, England 30 Mar 1635 on the ship Susan & Ellen for New England (NEHGR v25 p13) with Rev. Joseph Hull's company. Settled in Wessaguscus which was quickly renamed Weymouth. Richard is probably brother of John
      Porter who settled in Hingham (some 3 miles from Weymouth) in 1635.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S216] History of Weymouth, weygenb.txt, 00283.

    2.  2.  [S326] Bicknell Genealogy, 4, 00062.

    3.  3.  [S360] Vital Records of Weymouth, MA, Vol. 1, 219, 00610.

    4.  4.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 46:187, 00390.

    5.  5.  [S627] Descendants of Edward Small, 929, 00127.

    6.  6.  [S661] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, 102, 00661.

    7.  7.  [S1357] NEXUS, 6:20, 00206.

    8.  8.  [S1418] Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, 7, 01148.

    9.  9.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 25:15, 00390.

    10.  10.  [S576] TGMSP, Richard Porter, 00516.

    11.  11.  [S867] TAG, 53:31, 00863.

    12.  12.  [S1137] Planters of the Commonwealth, 125, 00988.

    13.  13.  [S1388] Packrat Productions, ships/marygold1635.htm, 00144.

    14.  14.  [S985] TCN, 40:28; 25 February 2010, 00937.

    15.  15.  [S576] TGMSP, William Read (2), 00516.

    16.  16.  [S576] TGMSP, Robert Lovell, 00516.

    17.  17.  [S576] TGMSP, John Whitmarsh, 00516.

    18.  18.  [S576] TGMSP, John Kitchin, 00516.

    19.  19.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 25:13-15, 00390.

    20.  20.  [S1418] Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, 8, 01148.

    21.  21.  [S1418] Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, 9, 01148.