 1737 - 1810 (73 years)
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| Documents |
 | Cyclopedia of Fayette County Biographies
This document provides a good synopsis of this family's line. Since it is a secondary source, the author cannot guarantee its accuracy. |
 | The Old Pike Post - The Porter Family in Maryland
This Pike Post was published in December 1999. On the last page it states that the information contained within it was compiled by Samuel Doak Porter's A Genealogy of the Porter Family of Maryland, West Virginia and Michigan and J. Marshall Porter's Sketches & Stories of Some Maryland Porters |
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| Name |
John Thomas Jr. Porter |
| Birth |
1737 |
Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1810 |
, Allegany, Maryland |
| Name |
John Porter |
| Death |
1810 |
Allegany County, Maryland |
| Burial |
1810 |
Eckhart Mines, Allegany, Maryland |
| Notes |
- See the notes asociated with John's alleged father, John Porter (b. abt. 1690) for the questions which exist as to whether John Thomas Porter, Jr. was the father of Gabriel McKenzie Porter.
Regarding Rose Meadows:
John Porter settled between Cumberland and Frostburg in 1792 on a farm known as Rose Meadows, from the profusion of wild roses which grew there. John built a substantial house on a south slope which remained in the family until about 1864. At that time, the owner, William R. Porter, sold it to a mining company who wanted it for the coal and tan-bark. The homestead came back into the family about 1916 when it was purchased by Walter and Celia Porter Engle. There is no trace of the house today, but a sketch painting thereof is in the possession of the Engle family. The Porter Cemetery, sometimes called the Rose Meadows Cemetery, is located a short distance north of the site. (From the book "A Genealogy of the Porter Family of Maryland, West Virginia, Michigan" by Samuel Doak Porter.
The John Porter and his brother Moses who helped survey the Mason-Dixon Line served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Paxton's Bedford County militia (The John Porter and his brother Moses who helped survey the Mason-Dixon
Line served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Paxton's Bedford County militia(Pa. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. V. page 116) (Pa. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. V. page 116)
The following email was sent to Don Kagle by Alan Williams on September 10, 2018. In essence the hunt for the parents of John, Moses and Henry Porter goes on as of September, 2018.
I do appreciate that info Dick, I was unaware of the Scritchfield effort.
We are cousins of the Scritchfields through Margaret Porter, born in Bedford County PA 1805 and died there in 1852, my 2nd Cousin 4 x removed. She married John Burley, and one of their children, Catherine, born 1838, married Samuel Scritchfield in 1863.
Margaret Porter was a child of William Porter and Mary Nelson and a granddaughter of Moses Porter and Margaret McKenzie.
John, Moses and Henry, Porter Brothers, are the oldest verifiable links in our line. Samuel Doak Porter (SDP) and Col. McKenzie (whose notes we hope will yield insight into their thinking) recounted the idea of the Singing Emigrant, John Porter, Catholic/Jacobite protester landing in Maryland @1715 and marrying the Huguenot of Swiss origin, Elinor Durier.
That story has been in dispute since it first saw print, and a Baltimore Sun article in 1912 that claimed John was an ‘Irish immigrant who landed in Boston’ got an angry rebuke in the next week’s letters to the editors from Glissan T. Porter, lawyer and newspaperman of Allegany County, who faithfully recounted the story SDP printed in the Bluebook.
Since then, based on a baptismal record for a John Porter 1697 found in England, people have ‘built trees’ going back to Charlemagne. (I don’t know why it’s always Charlemagne, apparently he was father to us all.)
We’ve got so many lines of investigation open into who Henry John and Moses parents were! But its far to early to burden you all with the possibilities. I am certain that
A. They had parents.
B. They are Brothers.
C. We have dug into many of the same ‘suspects’ that SDP and others have examined. So many, in fact, that I’ve become only too conversant with all the Porter/Portes/Borter lines of the Mid-Atlantic. I’ve had to build so many family trees to keep track of them so we can avoid running over old clues and thinking them to be fresh.
That said, we don’t think we’re at a brick wall. Now with DNA and better organized records, we’re able to fairly quickly rule a theory in or out of play. Part of the problem is that SDP claimed many children for our First John, quickly announced that ‘nothing more is known of them’ for 4, and then also passed Henry quickly out of view, so the bulk of his work revolves around (solely) John and Moses in Allegany County and their descendants.
People have long associated John Henry and Moses with the ‘Arnold Settlement’ and had assumed a bridge back to Carrollton. That’s where we are. Asserting anything back to the 15th Century is wishful thinking.
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| Person ID |
I00099 |
McKenzie Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
3 Nov 2012 |
| Father |
John Porter, b. Abt 1690, Bristol, England d. 1776 (Age ~ 86 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Eleanor Durier, b. May 1704, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. 1778, Baltimore County, Maryland (Age ~ 73 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F00121 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Nancy Ann McKenzie, b. Hopson's Choice, Maryland d. Aft 1789, Allegany County, Maryland |
| Marriage |
1767 |
Carroll County, Maryland |
| Children |
| | 1. Michael Porter, b. Abt 1768, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. UNKNOWN [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Samuel Porter, b. Abt 1770, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. Abt 1828 (Age ~ 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Thomas Porter, b. Abt 1772, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. 24 Apr 1854, Knox County, Ohio (Age ~ 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 4. Gabriel McKenzie Porter, b. 17 Sep 1776, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. 20 Apr 1842, Tinsman Station, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Age 65 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 5. Henry Porter, b. 1778, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. UNKNOWN [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 6. Moses Porter, b. Apr 1781, Carrollton, Carroll County, Maryland d. 2 Nov 1861, Eckhart Mines, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 7. John M. (Squire Jack) Porter, b. 24 Jun 1783, Wellersburg, Somerset County, Pennsylvania d. 15 Feb 1863, Rose Meadows, Maryland (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 8. Elizabeth Eleanor (Nellie) Porter, b. Abt 1785, Wellersburg, Somerset County, Pennsylvania d. 1855, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F00106 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
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