Rev. Samuel Porter and Mary Hutchinson

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Husband Rev. Samuel Porter ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 11 Jun 1760 - Ireland 3
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           Died: 23 Sep 1825 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Rev. Samuel Porter.

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Wife Mary Hutchinson ¹

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1 M John Porter ³

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2 M William Porter ^{1 3 4}

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           Born:  - Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Rebecca Dickey (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Jane Kirkpatrick (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Samuel Porter

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He was born in Ireland in 1760. His studies were pursued under direction of Mr. Smith and Rev. McMillan, the latter making no charge for board or tuition, while a friend provided for his family in the mean time. He was licensed Nov. 12, 1789. In the following year he became pastor of the congregations of Poke Run and Congruity. Of the former he was pastor until 1798, of the latter until his death, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.

He was one of the pioneer and leading clergyman of the Presbyterian Church in the early history of western Pennsylvania. He was born in Ireland and came to America about the close of the Revolutionary war, in the year 1783. For a time he located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and then moved on to the western part of the State, where at Congruity Church, in Westmoreland County, he spent the greater part of his active ministry, until his death. He was a man of letters and distinguished ability, a number of his writings and sermons being collected and published in book form by the Presbyterian Historical Society in the year 1853.

He was born in Ireland of parents belonging to the Reformed Presbyterian Church, commonly called Covenanters. He arrived in America in 1783, and spent his first winter in the vicinity of Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. In the following spring he removed to Washington County, where through the kind offices of Alexander Wright he procured a school to teach, and was led to attend the ministrations of Rev. Joseph Smith, then pastor of the United Presbyterian Churches of Upper Buffalo and Cross Creek. He also embraced opportunities of hearing Dr. McMillan. Through these and other clergymen he was induced to enter upon a course of preparation for the gospel ministry. His studies were prosecuted with James Hughes, John Brice, and Joseph Patterson, partly under the direction of Rev. Joseph Smith, and partly under that of H. McMillan, with whom he studied theology. Having spent three years in the prosecution of his academical and theological studies, he was licensed by the Redstone Presbytery Nov. 12, 1789. Hence, at a meeting of April 12, 1790, a call was put into his hands from the united congregations of Poke Run and Congruity, one from the congregations of George's Creek and Dunlap's Creek, and one from Long Run and Sewickley. [HWC 1883, 608]

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 485.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 238.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 566.

4 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 239.