Brief Life History of Levi Street
When Levi Street Porter was born on 9 March 1786, in Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ashbel Porter, was 41 and his mother, Lorane Benton, was 23. He married Nancy Younglove in 1810. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sandy Creek, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 22 April 1865, in Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Stevens Cemetery, Lacona, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States.
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- Levi Porter, "United States Census, 1850"
- Levi Street Porter, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Levi Porter, "Find A Grave Index"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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