William Porter and Martha Ross
Husband William Porter 1
Born: 15 Jun 1739 - Ireland 2 Christened: Died: 7 Feb 1824 3 Buried:
Father: [Father] Porter ( - ) Mother:
Marriage: 14 Mar 1770 1
Other Spouse: Jane Clark ( - ) 4
Wife Martha Ross 5
Born: 3 Jan 1750 - Chester Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 4 Apr 1790 - near Dillsburg, York Co, PA 5 Buried:
Father: William Ross (Abt 1725-1777) 6 Mother: Jean Nesbit ( - ) 7
Children
1 M Robert Porter 4 8
Born: 28 Apr 1773 - near Gettysburg, York (later Adams) Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 5 Jul 1859 9 Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Penrose Alcock (1765-1839) 3Spouse: Keziah Richey ( - ) 9
2 F Jean Porter 4
Born: 13 Jun 1775 9 Christened: Died: 11 Jun 1818 9 Buried:Spouse: John Black (Abt 1776-1839) 9
3 M John Porter 4 10
Born: 25 Sep 1777 11 Christened: Died: 3 Jul 1824 - ? Crawford Co, PA 11 Cause of Death: Accidental injury Buried:Spouse: Mary May ( - ) 10 11 Marr: 17 Feb 1804 11
4 M William Porter 4
Born: 31 Jan 1780 - Monaghan Twp, York Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: 18 Sep 1833 - Baltimore, MD 12 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M James Porter 4
Born: 3 Oct 1782 - York Co, PA 11 Christened: Died: 8 Apr 1862 11 Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Black (1787-1863) 11 Marr: 16 Jun 1807 12
6 M Alexander Porter 4
Born: 13 May 1785 - near Dillsburg, York Co, PA 13 Christened: Died: 29 Mar 1864 13 Buried:Spouse: Isabella Bonner (1783-1874) 13
7 M Thomas Porter 4
Born: 12 Oct 1787 - Monaghan Twp, York Co, PA 13 Christened: Died: Buried:
8 M Ross Porter 4
Born: 18 Mar 1790 13 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Burns (1798-1863) 13
General Notes: Husband - William Porter
William and James Porter were the first of the York County branch of the Porter family to come to Pennsylvania. The family had been settled in Donegal and Londonderry counties, Ireland, before arriving in the Colonies. Here they joined members of the same branch who had previously settled in the western parts of York, now Adams County, Pennsylvania. They settled near the present town of Gettysburg, where they remained until the middle of the Revolutionary period. Some time during this period or just prior to it William Porter returned to Ireland and brought back with him to Pennsylvania his father and his younger brother John. He is said to have had a half-brother David. When Col. Thomas Black of the York County Militia removed from the vicinity of Gettysburg to the Monaghan Settlement he was accompanied by William and John Porter, who purchased farms, one on one side of Colonel Black's plantation and one on the opposite side, at a place that came to be known as Porter's School.
James Porter, the third brother, is said to have accompanied Anthony Wayne to the West. After the treaty of Greenville all trace of him was lost.
William Porter served in the York County Militia in 1781. He was appointed second lieutenant of the Hamilton Bans Co. when the militia was ordered to New Jersey. At Trenton, December, 1776, when Cornwallis attempted to out-manoeuver Washington, William Porter was among those left to guard the camp on the Assunpink while Washington led his troops to Morristown. While attempting, with his brother, to rejoin his regiment at Princeton the two took refuge from the rain and sleet under a tree and were standing close together reloading their rifles under the protection of their broad-brimmed hats when a shot from Cornwallis' retreating riflemen pierced his abdomen and rendered him hors de combat.
After his release from the hospital at Princeton he continued to serve in the militia and at the close of the War was a member of Captain Bodine's Company, Colonel Parkinson's Regiment, in 1784. In 1779 he served on the Committee of Elections for York County, and was appointed Assessor the same year. In 1779 John Forsyth, Jacob Bushong, Martin Eichelberger, Adam Doran, Rudolph Spangler and William Porter, all of York County, received certificates in lieu of pay issued to Pennsylvania troops for services rendered to the United States. William Porter was an elder in Monaghan Presbyterian Church and succeeded Colonel Black as precentor.
1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.
2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 76.
3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 78.
4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 77.
5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50, 77.
6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10, 48.
7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10.
8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 417.
9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80.
10 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 868.
11 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 81.
12 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 117.
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Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 82.
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