Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Porter was born on 7 September 1775, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Porter, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Killam, was 33. He married Lucretia Bushnell on 20 March 1800, in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 22 August 1840, in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Joseph Porter, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Marriage of Edward Grace and Hattie Martin Rood - Rood Family - The descendants of Moses and Sarah Kilham Porter of Pawlet, Vermont, with some notice of their ancestors
- Joseph Porter, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791 · Vermont Becomes 14th State
On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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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