Samuel PORTER

Samuel married Anna COLTON on 13 Oct 1708 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Anna was born on 27 Dec 1680 in Longmeadow, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; died on 11 May 1761 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joanna PORTER was born on 02 Jan 1716 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Dec 1766 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Moses PORTER was born on 13 Jan 1722 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died on 8 Sep 1755 in Slain at Lake George.

Samuel married Joannah COOKE on 22 Feb 1683 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. Joannah (daughter of Aaron COOKE, III and Sarah WESTWOOD) was born on 10 Jul 1665 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died on 13 Nov 1713 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Hannah STANLEY in 1659 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of Thomas STANLEY and Benedicta TRITTON) was born on 02 Jun 1635 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 18 Dec 1708 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Died in his 76th year
• Fact: 1689, Representative
• Fact: 1691, Representative
• Fact: 1693, Representative
• Fact: 1697, Representative

Aaron married Sarah WESTWOOD on 30 May 1661. Sarah (daughter of William WESTWOOD and Bridget ?) was born about 1644; died on 24 Mar 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Died in her 86th year

Notes:

"John Porter and his Descendants": Among the early settlers of New England in the great tide of emigration from England subsequent to the granting of the charter for the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1628, came John Porter.
The records in England give his descent, in the sixteenth generation from William de la Grande, a Norman Knight who came in the army of the Norman Duke, at the conquest A.D. 1066, and that he acquired lands at or near Kenilworth in Warwickshire..
His son Ralph (or Roger) became "Grand Porteur" to henry First A.D, 1120 to 1140 from which he derived the name Porter......

John married Anna/Rose WHITE on 18 Oct 1620 in Messing, co. Essex, England. Anna/Rose (daughter of Robert WHITE and Bridget ALLGAR) was born in 1600; died on 11 May 1647 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of John Stanley and Susan Lancock

Notes:

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He probably arrived in May, 1634, (Love's Colonial History of Hartford, p. 2), though he is generally said to have come from London in the ship "Planter", 1635 and registered at the Custom House as 16; but this evidently refers to someone else of the same name, for he was much older. He and his brother Timothy were made Freemen of Massachusetts, March 4, 1634/5. His wife was born in 1609 and he was Deputy to the General Court from Lynn, Sep. 2, 1635, when the removal to Connecticut was decided upon. Moreover, he came with his brothers, John and Timothy who did not come in the "Planter." At Hartford he was Constable in the years 1644, 48 and 53. He joined the first party for the settlement of Hartford, known as the "Adventurers," who went the year before the main body of Mr. Hooker's congregation. He had been chosen Constable at Lynn and was fined 10 shillings at a Court held in Salem, for not being present June 27, 1636. He was an original proprietor at Hartford and his home lot in 1639 was on what is now Main Street just north of Little River, extending to the present Center Church. He removed to Hadley in 1659 and it has been said he was Townsman there but his name is not included in the list of Hadley's Selectmen.

Though a young man at this time, Mr. Stanley soon took an important position in the affairs of the town. He was a juryman in 1639 and 1643, and a constable in 1644, 1647, 1648, and 1653. This office was then one of the most responsible in the settlement, combining the duties of the modern sheriff and policeman, and being charged in general with preserving the order and decorum of the place. it devolved on him to summon the courts, General and Particular, to their sessions, and the freemen to their elections, to execute the decrees of the courts and the laws, to enforce order in public worship, to arrest and confine offenders, to administer the frequent whippings which were ordered in punishment of petty crimes, inflicting so many lashes "well laid on," a duty requiring a steady nerve and a strong arm.

In the year 1659, Thomas Stanley and his family, with some others, removed from Hartford, and commenced a new settlement at Hadley, Mass.

Though Thomas Stanley and his family removed from Hartford, he did not dispose of his house and lands there. At his death he left them to his only son, Nathaniel, who after the de3cease of his mother, returned and made his home there. They remained in the line of his descendants until they were bequeathed by his grandson William to the second church in1726. He died January 31, 1663, and was buried at Hadley. His will which is on record in Northampton, gives us interesting particulars as to his home and his family.

Thomas married Benedicta TRITTON on 3 Aug 1630. Benedicta was born on 30 Jul 1609 in Parish Reg., Ashford, Kent, England; died in Jan 1664/5. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Daniel Tritton and Alice Goldhatch

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 04 Mar 1635, Made a Freeman of Massachusetts

Notes:

Excerpt from "Genealogies of Hadley Families": William, together with Bridget, his wife, sailed from England, in ship Francis, the last of April, 1634, he age 28, and his wife 32....... He removed in 1636, with Mr. Hooker and his company to Hartford, or rather arrived in Hartford before Mr. Hooker, and when the first Court was holden at Hartford in April 1636, was on of the six men (two from each town) who composed it. One of the wealthiest and most prominent of the first settlers of Hartford, he took the same position in Hadley, where he died.

William married Bridget ?. Bridget was born about 1602 in England; died on 12 May 1676 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]