Robert Porter and Keziah Richey

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Husband Robert Porter ^{1 2}

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           Born: 28 Apr 1773 - near Gettysburg, York (later Adams) Co, PA 3
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         Father: William Porter (1739-1824) 5
         Mother: Martha Ross (1750-1790) 6

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Penrose Alcock (1765-1839) 3

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Wife Keziah Richey ⁴

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Children

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1 M Robert Alexander Porter ⁴

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         Spouse: Mary E. Baker (cal 1851-1881) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Porter

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He was brought at an early age by his parents to a place later known as Porter's School, near Dillsburg, Monaghan Township, York County, Pennsylvania. In 1796 he removed with his wife and children to Shippensburg, Cumberland County. In 1800 he purchased and settled on a tract of land on the Kittanning Road, Allegheny County. This tract, which contained two hundred acres, was known as Porter's Falls, taking its name from a stream of water that, coursing through his land, tumbled over rocky ledges into a woody ravine about one hundred yards from his house.
Robert Porter was one of the founders of Deer Creek United Presbyterian Church in 1802, then the Associate Reformed Church, at which time an open-air pulpit was erected and "hither up the old forest trail on horseback rode the pioneers of the surrounding townships to worship." He was an officer of the church from its inception. He also served as precentor, and his chanting of the Psalms was long held in delight by those who heard him.
He was appointed justice of the peace and served as treasurer and township commissioner. Mr. Porter was gifted in the knowledge and use of native herbs and it is said that he served his community, at a time when physicians were few, as a dispenser of drugs almost as effectively as a dispenser of justice.

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General Notes: Wife - Keziah Richey

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from West Deer Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 417.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 77.

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 80.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50, 77.