A Genealogy of the Porter Family of Maryland.... (viewable PDF file here) reported the following about John Porter, who was the first of this Porter line in America:
"JOHN PORTER, the emigrant was born in 1694 in England. He came from Glouchester near Bristol in 1715. He died in 1776. It is believed that he was a Jacobite and fled from England because of his opposition to the government. The History of Allegany County, Maryland...(says) that he fled from England about 1715 because he “made himself obnoxious to the party in power by singing of his own composition at a gathering of his neighbors, which was very uncomplimentary to the ruling monarch, King George I, on which account he was obliged to flee the country. He settled in Baltimore, Md. about 1715.”
Jim is linked through DNA to the Porter family in Maryland through Eliza (Porter) McFadyen.
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