John Porter

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Joshua Porter was born not later than 1740 and married not later than 1759. The first record of his presence in America is May '18, 1772 when he
bought for the sum of fifteen pounds a parcel of land 13½ acres in size "east of the Round Mountain" near Ridgefield, a village about ten miles from Danbury,
Connecticut. A year and half later, Dec. 20 1773, he bought for six pounds "six acres and one rood of land" lying west of his first purchase. From this humble
farm he endeavored to make a living for his family during the troublous years preceding the revolution. Recent discovery of the gravestone of Betty, his widow, in the upper cemetery at Danbury, indicates that she was born 1732 or 1733.
In April 1775, resentment against the oppression of England crystallized in the battles of Lexington and Concord. When the news reached Danbury there was
great excitement. A company of soldiers was raised and among the ninety-eight
names on the company roster we find Joshua Porter, - the sixth company of the fifth regiment, commanded by Col. Waterbury. By request of the New York
provincial regiment and the Continental Congress they marched to New York in June 1775 and encamped at Harlem. In September, under orders from Congress,
the Company marched to the northern department and took part in operations along Lakes George and Champlain, assisting in the reduction of St. Johns in
October.
After his service as a soldier, Joshua returned home. Nationally the times were momentous. In July came the Declaration of Independence and the die was
cast for complete separation from the mother country. Slowly the war progressed.
There were no major engagements in Connecticut, but depots were established for the storage of arms, ammunition and supplies, one being located at Danbury. It became of increasing importance for the British to discover and destroy the sources of supplies for the Continental Army. General Wm. Tryon, Governor of the colony of New York, was given the task of destroying the depot of supplies at
Danbury. Tryon approached Danbury from the southeast and reached his objective on Saturday, April 26, 1777. No one knew what direction his march
would take from that point on, and it was important for the farmers in his path to find out. One of them was Joshua Porter. Perhaps mindful of his former army
service and needing supplies (it is said that he came to town for a jug of molasses), he set out to gain first hand information and was in Danbury when the enemy
came. In town he met Captain Eleazar Starr and they took refuge in the house of Captain Starr's cousin, Major Daniel Starr (one of the most valuable dwellings in Danbury) with three other persons, one a negro, in Major Daniel Starr's house; all four were killed and the house burned in the afternoon of
April 26, 1777.
John and Dinah lived near Danbury, Connecticut until after their twelfth and last child was born in 1807, when John caught the spirit of westward migration
which was opening up the rich lands of western New York and the Ohio regions.
Traveling westward by the slow means of locomotion of the early days of the
nineteenth century, the family finally took up their permanent residence in the beautiful Finger Lake country on a farm in Ulysses Township, [now Tompkins,
then] Seneca County, N.Y. John was a farmer all his life although family tradition says that he served for a short time in the War of 1812. He died July 4, 1837 in
Ulysses, N.Y. and his will was probated there. It is said that he died while at
dinner at an inn at Trumansburg.
After the death of Dinah Thomas, John Porter married four more times: Jeulula (or Julia) Yale

Unkn Seeley, Unkn Wakeman,  and lastly, Jane Forrester Thomas, widow of  Dinah Thomas Porter's brother, Elias Thomas. 

Obituary for John Porter:

Trumansburg Advertiser
Tompkins County, NY
July 5, 1837
Page 2, column 2

"Sudden death!
It becomes our painful duty to record the sudden and unexpected death of Mr. John Porter, an aged resident of this town.
He came to this village yesterday, for the purpose of joining with his fellow citizens in celebrating the day (4th of July), and while partaking of dinner at the Union House, expired without a groan!
Medical assistance was immediately called, but to no avail.
He died in a fit of apoplexy."

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