Aquilla Rice

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Aquilla Rice

Porters Mentioned In Will

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Ellen Mattingly's Will

January 1857

Harriet M. Porter, daughter of Thomas M. and Nancy Porter

Catherine Porter, "             "

Brothers Moses and John Porter

William C. Porter mentioned

William R. Porter

James Porter

Mary Porter, witness

Thomas R. Wilson Of Nebraska

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 Thomas R. Wilson Of Nebraska

William Kennedy Of Maryland And New Brunswick

 

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903:

Wm. Kennedy

John Porter Mentioned

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Porter mentioned

Camp Comfort To Camp Hickey

CAMP COMFORT — CAMP HICKEY.

Monday, October 27, morning came, cold, but the storm had ceased. Hardtack and coffee were swallowed in a biting, cold wind, and we were again in line for the march. A halt was made for two
brigades to pass. Ranks were broken and in a few moments scores of fires were blazing from Maryland fence rails. Our clothes were dried and we moved on happy again. After a march of ten miles over the Blue Ridge Mountains, we encamped in Pleasant Valley and called the place "Camp Comfort."

Tuesday, October 28, eleven o'clock, found us on the road again, passing by log houses, over South Mountain, via Crampton's Gap, through Birkettsville and Petersville, halting for the day about two
miles from Berlin on the Potomac. 

Source (LOC)

Our location was called " Camp Hickey," after Reverend Manasseh Hickey of Detroit Conference. We were in the midst of marshalled legions, six miles below Harper's Ferry, waiting our turn to cross on the pontoons over which troops were passing day and night into Virginia. 

Death Of Dr. J. M. Porter

Frostburg mining journal., December 20, 1890, Image 3 (excerpt):

O Wicked Doctor Connolly!

Source

Source

Hannah Guthrie, Granddaughter Of Charles Polke

*Charles Polke's life was featured in a Maryland publication (below is an excerpt about his son, Edmund):

(Major) Edmund Polke (b. 1740)...by 1765 was living near Fort Pitt, where he was married to Mary Fultz. By 1776, before the frontier was open, he and his brother Thomas already were staking claims in Kentucky. They traveled by flatboat down the Ohio River to the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville), settling near Bardstown in what later became Nelson County, Kentucky.

 Hannah Polk, daughter of Edmund and Mary (Fultz) Polk (1765-1842), who died in Nelson County, Kentucky, was married to General Adam Guthrie.

My ancestress, Mrs. Arabella Anderson (who was widowed when she married John Ash), was a party with Adam Guthrie on Nelson County deeds (see below):

Adam Guthree (Guthrie) was granted 218 acres on September 10, 1788, per Nelson County, Kentucky, Deed# 2-28, from John and Arabella Ash (his wife), Grantors, on the ...waters of Ash's Creek a branch of of Salt River...including the place where David Evans Jn formerly lived...bank of the run John Ash lives on... . [Source]

The Ashes also granted Adam Guthrie 45 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky, (Deed 5-596 on October 7, 1799), also on Ashe's Creek.. .  Witnesses were James Cox, Edmund Polke, and Charles Polke.

Note: President James Knox Polk was *Charles Polke's great-grandnephew.

Had The General Been As Vigilant

Indian Attack (Source)

Had [General Hand] been as vigilant in preventing the departure of McKee, Matthew Elliott, and the Girtys as were the Marylanders in 1775 in securing Dr. John Connolly, the Indian raids upon the frontier would have been fewer in number and less efficiently organized than they subsequently became. [Source]

Early Annapolis

Source

London, England

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London, England

Dealing With Illness Traveling In The Military

Source

Journal entry of November 24th:

Rio Grande River

According to his journal, Private Richardson went down to the Rio Grande to get water on November 25th.

Porters In 1815 Chancery Court Papers (Abstract)

State Agency Series Listing at the Maryland State Archives

CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)

1713-1853   MSA SSF 512

1815/11/20

852: Lucy Chaney, Charles Chaney, William Dunham, Mary Dunham, Joseph Smith, Virlinda Smith, Elijah Chaney, Thomas Watts, and Rachel Watts vs. Anne Chaney, Elizabeth Chaney, Mahala Chaney, Anne Porter, Levin Porter, Wells Porter, Elijah Porter, John Porter, Mary Anne Porter, and Charles W. Porter. FR. Petition to sell Just as You Like. Recorded (Chancery Record) 98, p. 1.

Accession No.: 17,898-852 MSA S512-2- 886 Location: 1/36/1/

Major Garland Was Blackhawk's Escort

Source

Steps At Fort Monroe, Virginia

Major John Spotswood Garland was the father-in-law of General James G. Longstreet, of Civil War fame.  Jacob Smith, the founder of Flint, Michigan, was Major Garland's father-in-law.

William Lowe

Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999  Baltimore Will index 1664-1850

Index "L's" Lowe

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William Lowe
21 April 1743
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Volume 1, Page 346
Wife Sarah
Sons William; John; Thomas; Samuel
Daughters Elizabeth; Mary; Sarah

Smallest children..William, Rachal, Thomas, Anna, and Samuel
6 March 1743 (Proven)

Witnesses: William Watkins; William Slade; Edward Mortimore

FindAGrave

Elizabeth Lowe Greer at FindAGrave

David Percy's Grandson, David Porter

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David Percy

Grandson, David Porter, son of John B. Porter, deceased

30 March 1858 probated

Death Of M. M. T. Porter

Frostburg mining journal., March 16, 1912...:

In the death of M. M. T. Porter at his home on the 'Porter Farm' near Eckhart, Saturday, March 9 1912...56 years old..."Old Porter Place"...survived one brother, Josiah Porter...two sisters, Mrs. William Parker and Mrs. Justus Rephonn of Eckhart...and children.... .

Mason And McCarty Duel

Source

The Mccarty family:

"Colonel Daniel McCarty...married, about 1778, Ann Mason, daughter of George Mason, author of the famous Bill of Rights. They had Hon. William Mason McCarty, who represented his district in Congress for several times, and John McCarty, who killed his cousin Gen. Stephens Mason in a duel in 1818. William Mason McCarty['s]...first wife was his cousin, Miss Mason, sister of Gen. Stephens Mason killed by John McCarty in a duel."

"...the male line of descent from Col. Daniel McCarty who married Ann Mason has become extinct."

The cause of the duel according to the History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County Virginia, By James William Head:

A Debt Of Francis Dollarhide

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Francis Dollarhide