Robert Porter and Lilleous Christy

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Husband Robert Porter ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1698 or 25 Nov 1705 - Island of Burt, near Londonderry, Ireland 2 3 4
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           Died: 14 Jul 1770 - Worcester Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 1 3 4
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       Marriage: Abt 1727

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Wife Lilleous Christy ³

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           Born: Abt 1708
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           Died: Aft 1771
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         Father: John Christy (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Gen. Andrew Porter ^{1 3 5}

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           Born: 24 Sep 1743 - Worcester Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 1 3 6
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           Died: 16 Nov 1813 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 6
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         Spouse: Elizabeth McDowell (      -1773) 4 7 8
           Marr: 10 Mar 1767 4 7 8

         Spouse: Elizabeth Parker (1751-1821) 5 7 9
           Marr: 20 May 1777 6 7 9

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2 M [Unk] Porter

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3 M Stephen Porter ¹⁰

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         Spouse: Margaret McFarland (      -      ) 10

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Porter

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His birth is recorded in the parish of Burt, on an island near Londonderry, Ireland. His earliest known direct ancestor was a Scotch chief of the clan McGregor, who emigrated from Scotland to Ireland about 1630.

He emigrated to America from Ireland in the year 1720. He came from what is known as the Isle of Bert, which is distant about nine miles from the city of Londonderry. He landed at Londonderry, New Hampshire, and soon afterwards purchased and settled on a farm in what is now Worcester township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, about four miles distant from Norristown. He occupied this farm until the day of his death. The records of the church show that in 1741 he was an elder of the Norristown Presbyterian Church. He reared a large family: nine sons and five daughters.

He was born on the island of Burt, nine miles from the city of Londonderry, where the ruins of the ancestral home of the family may be still [1911] seen in the midst of the beetling crags and rugged grandeur of the wild Derry coast. At the age of twenty years, he emigrated to America with a number of other Ulster Scots from the same locality and located in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, where the town of Londonderry was named by them. Here he married, and here at least five of their fourteen children were born. In 1740 he removed with his family to Worcester township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Norriton from 1741 to his death, in 1770. In 1754 he purchased of Anthony and Phebe (Guest) Morris, of Philadelphia, a tract of land on the Skippack road, in Whitpain township, where he resided until his death, July 14, 1770, becoming one of the prominent citizens of that township.

Stephen was the youngest of their nine sons.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 525.

2 Theodore W. Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1884), Pg 674.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1300.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 438.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 432.

6 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 435.

7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 526.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1302.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1303.

10 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 433.