Count of Poitiers as "William I" and Duke of Aquitaine from 935 to his death. He was also Count of Auvergne from 950.
William was son of Ebalus of Aquitaine and Emiliene and thus a sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne.
He married Gerloc of Normandy (renamed Adele), daughter of Rollo of Normandy. They had at least two children: Adelaide, who married King Hugh I of France (Hugh Capet) and William the heir to Aquitaine.
William III of Ponthieu (ca. 1095 – 20 June 1172), son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu. He also called William III Talvas.
He assumed the county of Ponthieu some time before 1111, upon the death of his mother. His father escaped capture at the battle of Tinchebrai (1106); but later, as envoy for King Louis of France, he went to the English court and was arrested by King Henry of England and was never released from prison. William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry, and his allegiance to count Geoffrey of Anjou caused Henry to seize certain of William's castles in Normandy. His wife was Ala of Burgundy. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had four children, two sons and two daughters: Guy II is called "the eldest son", but the editors doubt this; he assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but preceded him in death (Guy II died 1147; William Talvas died 1171); his sisters married Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne, and William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_Ponthieu
William VIII of Aquitaine, (Guillaume VIII in French) (1025 – September 25, 1086), whose name was Guy-Geoffroy before becoming Duke of Aquitaine, was Duke of Gascony (1052-1086), and then Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers (as William VI of Poitiers) between 1058 and 1086, succceeding his brother William VII (Pierre-Guillaume). Guy-Geoffroy was the youngest son of William V of Aquitaine by his third wife Agnes of Burgundy. He was the brother-in-law of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor who had married his sister, Agnes de Poitou.
He became Duke of Gascony in 1052 during his older brother William VII's rule. Gascony had come to Aquitanian rule through William V's marriage to Prisca (a.k.a Brisce) of Gascony, the sister of Duke Sans VI Guilhem of Gascony.
William VIII was one of the leaders of the allied army called to help Ramiro I of Aragon in the siege of Barbastro (1064). This expedition was the first campaign organized by the papacy, namely Pope Alexander II, against a Muslim city, and the precursor of the later Crusades movement. Aragon and its allies conquered the city, killed its inhabitants and collected an important booty. However, Aragon lost the city again in the following years. During William VIII's rule, the alliance with the southern kingdoms of modern Spain was a political priority as shown by the marriage of all his daughters to Iberian kings.
He married three times and had at least five children. After he divorced his second wife due to infertility, he remarried to a much younger woman who was also his cousin. This marriage produced a son, but William VIII had to visit Rome in the early 1070s to persuade the pope to recognize his children from his third marriage as legitimate.
First wife: Garsende of Périgord, daughter of Count Aldabert II of Périgord and his wife Alausie, herself the second daughter of duke Sans VI Guilhem of Gascony (divorced November 1058), no children. She became a nun at Saintes.
Second wife: Matoeda (divorced May 1068)
Child: Agnes (1052-1078), married Alfonso VI of Castile
Third wife: Hildegarde of Burgundy (daughter of duke Robert I of Burgundy)
Child: Agnes (d.1097), married Peter I of Aragon
Child: William IX of Aquitaine, his heir
William IX of Aquitaine (October 22, 1071 – February 10, 1126, also Guillaume or Guilhem d'Aquitaine), nicknamed the Troubador was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VII of Poitiers between 1086 and 1126. He was also one of the leaders of the crusade of 1101 and one of the first vernacular poets and troubadours.
William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his third wife Hildegarde of Burgundy. His birth was an event of great celebration, but at first he was considered illegitimate by religious authorities because of his father's earlier divorces and his parents consanguinity. This obliged his father to make a pilgrimage to Rome soon after his birth, where he sought and received papal approval of his marriage and children.
In 1094 he married Philippa of Toulouse, the daughter and heiress of William IV of Toulouse. By Philippa, William had two sons and five daughters, including:
William X of Aquitaine, his heir.
Agnes of Aquitaine, who married (1) Aimery V of Thouars; (2) to King Ramiro II of Aragon
Raymond of Poitiers, ruler of the principality of Antioch, a crusader state
He was excommunicated twice, the first time in 1114 for some unknown offense. His response to this was to demand absolution from the Bishop of Poitiers at swordpoint. He was excommunicated the second time for carrying off Dangerose de l'Isle Bouchard, the wife of his vassal Aimery I de Rochefoucauld, Viscount of Châtellerault. He installed her in the Maubergeonne tower of his castle, and, as related by William of Malmesbury, even painted a picture of her on his shield.
This greatly offended both his wife and his son, William. According to Orderic Vitalis, Philippa protested her treatment in October 1119 at the Council of Reims, claiming to have been abandoned by the duke in favor of Dangereuse. She later retired to the convent of Fontevrault. Relations were only patched up with his son when the younger William married Ænor of Châtellerault, Dangereuse's daughter by her husband.
His 13th century Provençal biographer remembers him: "[William IX] was one of the most courtly men in the world and one of the greatest deceivers of women. He was a fine knight at arms, liberal in his attentions to ladies, and a fine composer and singer of songs."
William invited Pope Urban II to spend Christmas 1095 at his court. The pope urged him to take the cross and leave for the Holy Land, but William was more interested in exploiting the absence of Raymond IV of Toulouse, his wife's uncle, to press a claim to Toulouse. He and Philippa did capture Toulouse in 1098, an act for which they were threatened with excommunication. Partly out of a desire to regain favor with the religious authorities and partly out of a wish to see the world, William joined the First Crusade in 1099.
He arrived in the Holy land in 1101 and stayed there until the following year. His record as a general is not very impressive. William fought mostly skirmishes in Anatolia and was frequently defeated. His recklessness had his army ambushed on several occasions, with great losses to his own side. In September 1101 his entire army was destroyed by the Turks at Heraclea; William himself barely escaped with a few survivors.
Later on in his life, William joined forces with the kingdoms of Castile (an old ally) and Léon. Between 1120 and 1123, Aquitanian troops fought side by side with queen Urraca of Castile, in an effort to conquer the Moors of Cordoba and complete the Reconquista. During his sojourn in Spain, William was given a rock crystal vase by a Muslim ally that he later beqeathed to his granddaughter Eleanor. The vase probably originated in Sassanid Persia in the 7th century.
William's greatest legacy to history was not as a warrior but as a poet. He was he was the first known troubadour, or lyric poet employing the Romance vernacular called Provencal, or Occitan. Eleven of his songs have survived into the 21st century (Merwin, 2002). His artistic name was lo cons de Peitieus, and he was one of the most important troubadours of the Middle Age's Provençal literature. The topics varied, treating sex, love, women, his own sexual prowess, and feudal politics. His brashness, wit, and temper caused scandal and won admiration at the same time. He stands as the first surviving troubadour, and one of the first Romance vernacular poets of theMiddle Ages, a cultural phenomenon that would culminate in Dante, Boccaccio, and Villon.
William was a man that loved scandal and no doubt enjoyed shocking his audiences. Upon returning from crusade, he abandoned his wife in favour of a married woman, known as Dangereuse (Dangerosa in Occitan) from his poems, and risked excommunication for the deed. He also composed a song about founding a convent in his lands, where the nuns would be picked from among the most beautiful women in the region, or from the best whores, depending on the translation. While this confirms William's lusty persona, it also makes a joke about the penitentiary convents for prostituted founded by the charismatic preacher Robert of Arbrissel. (Bond, xlix) In fact, William granted large donations to the church, perhaps to regain the pope's favour. He also constructed the palace of Poitou, later added to by his granddaughter Eleanor of Aquitaine. It survives to this day in the city of Poitiers.
One of William's poems is a musing on mortality; it begins: Since now I have a mind to sing/I'll make a song of that which saddens me, and goes on to say: For I have known delight and dalliance/Both far and near, yea and in my own dwelling/But this day, joy and dalliance, farewell. He died on February 10th, 1126, age 55.
William IX also provided troops to Philip I of France in his war against William the Conqueror.
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Nicknamed the Saint was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VIII of Poitiers between 1126 and 1137. He was the son of William, the Troubador by his wife, Philippa of Toulouse.
William was born in Toulouse during the brief period when his parents ruled the capitol. Later that same year, much to his wife's ire, Duke William mortgaged Toulouse to Philippa's cousin, Bertrand of Toulouse, and then left on Crusade. Philippa and her infant son were left in Poitiers. When Duke William returned, he took up with Dangereuse, the wife of one of his vassals, and set aside his rightful wife, Philippa. This caused conflict between father and son, until William married Ænor of Châtellerault, daughter of his father's mistress, in 1121. He had from her three children: William Aigret, who died young; the heiress Eleanor of Aquitaine; and Petronilla of Aquitaine, who married Raoul I of Vermandois. Both Ænor and William Aigret died in 1130.
As his father before him, William X was a patron of troubadors, music and literature. He was an educated man and strived to give his two daughters an excellent education, in a time when Europe's rulers were hardly literate. When Eleanor succeeded him as Duchess, she continued William's tradition and transformed the Aquitanian court into Europe's centre of knowledge.
Despite his love of the arts, William was not a peaceful man, and was frequently involved in conflicts with neighbouring Normandy (which he raided in 1136) and France. Even inside his borders, William faced an alliance of the Lusignans and the Parthenays against him, an issue resolved with total destruction of the enemies. In international politics, William X initially supported antipope Anacletus II in the schism of 1130, opposite to Pope Innocent II, against the will of his own bishops. In 1134 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux convinced William to drop his support to Anacletus and join Innocent.
In 1137 William joined the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, but died of food poisoning during the trip. On his deathbed, he expressed his wish to see king Louis VII of France as protector of his fifteen-year-old daughter Eleanor. Louis VII accepted this wish and married the heiress of Aquitaine.
Ebles was established as Count of Poitou in 892 by his father Ranulf II, in the presence of Aymar of Poitiers, and supported by Eudes of France. Ebles gained the favor of William I the Pious, Count of Auvergne, who placed Aquitaine under his authority.
In 902, Ebles launched the conquest of his county with an army lent by his distant relative William the Pious. He took Poitiers in the absence of Aymar and established control of the county. He was investitured as Count of Poitou by Charles the Simple, with whom Ebles was raised.
Count of Poitou was the only title in which he ever had legitimate investiture. Ebles alloted the Abbey of Saint-Maixent to Viscomte Savary de Thouars who had been his constant supporter. He restructured Poitou by creating new vicomtés in Aulnay and Melle and dissolved the title and position of Viscomte de Poitou upon the death of its holder, Maingaud, in 925.
In 904 he conquered the Limousin. In 911 Ebles was in Chartres with an army that opposed Rollon.
In 927, William the Younger, heir to William the Pious, and then his successor, his brother Alfred, died in the space of one year. Alfred, having made Ebles his heir, Ebles thus found himself Duke of Aquitaine, Comté du Berry, d'Auvergne and du Velay.
In 929, King Raoul started trying to reduce the power of Ebles Manzer. He withdrew from him access to Berry, then in 932 he transfered the titles of Duc d'Aquitaine and Comté d'Auvergne to the Count of Toulouse Raymond III Pons. Moreover the territory of March which was under the control of the Seigneur de Charroux, vassal of Ebles, was transformed into an independent county.
Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers between 963 and 995.
William was the son of William III of Aquitaine and Gerloc (Adele) of Normandy. He was brother in law of Hugh I of France, married to his sister Adelaide. He was a seventh generation descendant of Charlemagne.
William married Emma of Blois, daughter of Theobald I of Blois and Luitgarde of Vermandois. Their marriage was stormy, in part because of William's indulgence in the pursuit of women and wild animals. She banished his paramours, they separated twice for long periods, and finally he retired to a monastery, leaving Emma to rule Aquitaine in the name of their son until 1004. Their children were: William V of Aquitaine, Ebles, died after 997.
He had three marriages:
1. Agnes of Gévaudan, widow of Aldebert I of La Marche
Child: William VI of Aquitaine
2. Prisca (a.k.a. Brisque) of Gascony, daughter of Duke Sans VI Guilhem of
Gascony. She was dead by 1018.
Child: Eudes of Aquitaine
Child: Adalais of Aquitaine, married Count Guiraut I Trancaleon of
Armagnac
Child: Thibault, died young.
3. Agnes of Burgundy, daughter of Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy. Her second
husband was Geoffrey II of Anjou.
Child: Pierre-Guillaume (William VII)
Child: Guy-Geoffroy (William VIII)
Child: Agnes de Poitou, married Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou (as William II or III) from 995 until his death. He was the son and successor of William IV by his wife Emma, daughter of Theobald I of Blois. He seems to have taken after his formidable mother, who ruled Aquitaine as regent until 1004. He was a friend to Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and founded a cathedral school at Poitiers. He himself was very well educated, a collector of books, and turned the prosperous court of Aquitaine into the learning center of Southern France.
Though a cultivated prince, he was a failure in the field. He called in the aid of his suzerain Robert II, king of France, in subduing his vassal, the count of La Marche. But together they yet failed. He lost the Loudunais and Mirebalais to Fulk Nerra, count of Anjou, and, in 1006, he was defeated by Viking invaders. He had to give up Confolens, Ruffec, and Chabanais to compensate the count of Angoulême, but Fulbert negotiated a treaty (1020) outlining the reciprocal obligations of vassal and suzerain.
However, his piety and culture brought peace to his vast feudum and he tried to stem the tide of feudal warfare then destroying the unity of many European nations by supporting the current Peace and Truce of God movements initiated by Pope and Church.
In 1024-1025, an embassy from Italy came to France seeking a king of their own, the Emperor Henry II having died. The Italians asked for Robert's son Hugh Magnus, co-king of France, but Robert refused to allow his son to go and the Italians turned to William. He set out for Italy to consider the proposal, but the Italian political situation convinced him to renounce the crown for him and his heirs. His reign ended in peace and he died on the last or second to last day of January 1030.
The principle source of his reign is the panegyric of Adhemar of Chabannes.
He is considered a possible son of Gérard, Count of Auvergne and Hildegard / Matilda, daughter of Louis the Pious and Ermengarde.
Although not much else is known about Ranulf I, he died in 866 in Aquitaine from wounds received in the Battle of Brissarthe against the Vikings (in which Robert the Strong, Marquis of Neustria and ancestor of the Capetians, also died).
His son, Ranulf II of Poitiers, then inherited Poitiers and later acquired Aquitaine. Through the duchy of Aquitaine, he is the ancestor of Eleanor of Aquitaine, thus he is also an ancestor of the present-day British Royal Family. Wp
Count of Poitiers between 866 and 890. Ranulf became Duke of Aquitaine in 887 and styled himself king of Aquitaine from 888 to his death. Ranulf was son of Ranulf I of Poitiers and Bilichilde of Maine.
He married an Ermengarde (died 935) and by her had a son, Ranulf III, that succeeded him as count of Poitiers. His illegitimate son Ebalus succeeded him in Aquitaine and, in the death of Ranulf III, in Poitiers too.
Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I count of Ponthieu. He was apparently married twice. By his first wife Adelaide, daughter of Arnulf, Count of Holland he had his heir, count Hugh II, and possibly a son named Robert (although Robert might have been a younger half-brother of Hugh II's). His other sons, Guy (who became bishop of Amiens), and Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye), were evidently sons by the second wife. She has been identified as the wife of a count Arnold II of Boulogne who died in battle against Enguerrand I. He was in his forties when he took the widow of his erstwhile enemy to wife. Enguerrand died in c. 1045 "at a great age."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enguerrand_I_of_Ponthieu
It is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties
Since Adele WAS both the daughter of Arnulf AND the wife of Baldwin of Boulogne, Adelaide, Enguerrand's first wife was either Adele's sister or someone is confused here.
Agnes of Ponthieu (c. 1080 – aft. 1105) was the daughter of Count Guy I of Ponthieu. Enguerrand, the son of Count Guy, died at a youthful age. Guy then made his brother Hugh heir presumptive, but he also died before Guy (died 1100). Agnes became count Guy's heiress, and was married to Robert of Bellême. Their son William Talvas succeeded to the county of Ponthieu after the death of Agnes (between 1105 and 1111), and the imprisonment of his father in 1112.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_Ponthieu
Guy I of Ponthieu (died 13 October 1100) was born sometime in the mid to late 1020s. He was the second son of Count Hugh II of Ponthieu. Guy's older brother Enguerrand became Count of Ponthieu upon the death of their father on 20 November 1052, possibly in battle.
His daughter, Agnes, married Robert of Bellême. Their son, William Talvas, assumed the comital title upon the death of his mother, sometime before 1111.
The Ponthievin alliance with Duke William of Normandy had earlier been secured by the marriage of Enguerrand's and Guy's sister to Duke William's uncle, William of Talou (Enguerrand himself was married to Duke William's sister, Adelaide). William of Talou had built a strong castle at Arques, and from it (in 1053) he defied his nephew the youthful Duke of Normandy. As "family", the comital house of Ponthieu supported the rebellion
With the untimely death of his older brother (who was without male issue or heirs), Guy assumed the comital duties: this is the first mention of Guy in the historical record.
In February 1054, Henry was again ready to chastise Duke William: he reentered the duchy with a large army of his own liegemen and an Angevin army led by Count Geoffrey of Anjou. This combined force moved down the Seine toward Rouen, while Henry's brother Eudes "led" a second army, along with Guy and Count Rainald of Clairmont. The Franco-Ponthievin army was undisciplined, and fragmented out of control to plunder and pillage the countryside around Mortemer. They were attacked suddenly by Normans from Eu and other districts of northeastern Normandy. In the Battle of Mortemer, Guy's younger brother Waleran was mortally wounded, and Guy himself was captured. He spent two years as a prisoner in Normandy, while his uncle, Bishop Guy of Amiens, ruled Ponthieu as regent.
Evidently, from this point on, Count Guy was a vassal of Duke William of Normandy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I_of_Ponthieu
Hugh II of Ponthieu was count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Evidently Hugh II was the half brother of Guy, who became the bishop of Amiens; Fulk, who became the abbot of Forest l'Abbaye; and Robert. However, it is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties.
Hugh II was married to Bertha of Aumale, Countess of Aumale. They had at least five children: Enguerrand II who was Hugh II's heir; Guy I, who succeeded his elder brother as count; Hugh (whose name is inferred by evidence contained within The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio; Waleran, and a daughter who was married to William of Talou, the count of Arques, and uncle to duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_II_of_Ponthieu
Codding tells that John Porter may have been a native of the parish of Little Baddow, co. Essex, England, but may also have come from some neighboring parish; probably born shortly before 1560. The parish registers for Little Baddow start in 1559. He was married at Little Baddow, but none of their children were baptized there, so they must have left that parish soon after their marriage. Where they lived between 1587 and 1593 is still unknown, though presumably they did not leave Essex. They were at Felsted by 17 May 1593 when daughter Margaret was baptised, and probably continued to live at Felsted for the next 30 years.1 2
A John Porter, seemingly this one, was called cousin and named executor in the will of Thomas Brett of Bromfield and Terling, co. Essex. This will dated 15 January 1615/1616 and proved 13 November 1616. The testator was an uncle of William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield MA, and bequeathed "a tenement called Philles, with the land &c. in Little Baddowe" to his cousin John Porter, and instructed Porter to pay the mortgage on this property. Porter was not only made executor, but residuary legatee as well.
Codding refers to an article written by Rev. Jesse Berridge, Rector of St. Mary the Virgin, titled "Little Baddow in the Seventeenth Century," printed in the Essex Review in 1934, in which "the Vessey family is mentioned in a rather odd and not quite reputable connection."
The will of John Porter is dated 30 May 1623, proved in the Commissary Court of London, Essex and Herts 26 Nov 1625. John calls himself "of Felsted, co. Essex, yeoman." He mentions wife Sybil (executrix), children Francis, Thomas, John, William, and Rose, wife of --- Wentford (Underwood?).
FROM: THE PORTER FAMILY "John Porter, Windsor Conn., Descendants" R929.2 P83a Volumn I Onondaga County Library, Syracuse, NY:
Henry Porter Andrew, Esq.
"Among the early settlers of New England, in the great tide of emigration from England, subsequent to the granting of the Charter for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1628, came John Porter.
The records in England give his descent, in the 16th generation from William de la Grande, a Norman Knight, who came in the Army of the Norman Duke at the conquest, A.D. 1066, and that he acquired lands at or near Kenilworth, in Warwickshire.
His son Ralph (or Roger) became 'Grand Porteur' to Henry first, A.D. 1120 to 1140, from which he derived the name Porter."........
"(The Windsor Church was formed in Plymouth, England in March, 1630, by people from Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Warwickshire; the reverends John Maverick and John Warham being ordained, respectively, as pastor and teacher.
In 1630 they came to New England, settling at Dorchester, Mass., on the first settlement of that town. In the summer of 1635, the arrivals having become numerous and the settlement ' somewhat crowded, and hearing ye fame of ye Quinnetukut river, a company was formed to make a settlement there, and on the fifteenth day of October they took their departure, carrying with them their church organization, under the Rev. John( ?) Warham, the Rev. Mr. Maverick remaining at Dorchester.
Trumbull says, 'The journey from Massachusetts was made in about 14 days time, the distance being more than one hundred miles and through a trackless wilderness. They had no guide but their compass, and made their way over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers, which were not passable but with the greatest difficulty. They had no cover but the heavens, nor any lodgings but those which simple nature afforded them. They drove with their 160 head of cattle and subsisted on the way, in great measure, on the milk of their kine.
This adventure was the more remarkable, as many of the company were persons of figure, who had lived in England, in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were entire strangers to fatigue and danger. (see appendix no.1)
This company reached the Connecticut River at a place called by the natives Matteneang but to which the settlers gave the name 'Windsor' , many of their number being natives of the place of that name in England.
In 1639 the Rev. Ephraim Hewett, of Wraxhall, in Kenilworth, England was called to assist Mr. Warham, and it is probable that John Porter accompanied him, as at about that date his name first appears upon the public records.)
John Porter's residence in Windsor appears to have been located near the 'Little River' at its junction with the Connecticut and between the residence of George Phelps and Joseph Loomis, and nearly opposite those of Henry Wolcott and Matthew Allyn.
He was for that period a man of considerable substance, as appears by his will printed in the public records of Connecticut (see appendix no. 2)
He died in Windsor, April 21, 1648; his wife, Rose, having died in July 1647 (see appendix no. 3) "
(here a note is written in the margin : 'See New & Grey 55 P. 22-28 for correct dates, etc.)
FROM: "Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers" by Joseph SAVAGE
Vol 3 Porter.
JOHN, Windsor, eldest s. of John the sec. of the same, freem. 1672, m. 16 Dec. 1669 (rather early in his days), Joanna, d. of Walter Gaylord, had Joanna, b. 7 Feb. 1671; Mary, 20 Nov. 1672; John, 17 Jan. 1675; Sarah, 1 June 1677; Ann, 26 Aug. 1679; Daniel, 13 Nov. 1683; David, 3 Oct. 1685; and, if we believe Stiles, one s. and four more ds. and d. 1699.
FROM: A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1695 to 1700. Page 107-8-9
Name: Sergt. John Porter Location: Windsor
Invt. £849-06-00. Taken 2 February, 1698-9, by John Wolcott, Deac. Joseph Loomis and Lt. Matthew Allyn.
Will dated 7 September, 1698.
I Sergt. John Porter of Windsor do declare this my last Will & Testament. I give to my wife, if she survive me, the use of all my houseing and homested on the east side of the highway before my Door until the heirs hereafter mentioned Come of age. Also I give her a third part of all my improved Land during her widowhood, excepting only my pasture by Mr. Allyn's. If she marry again, then my three sons, John, Daniel and David Porter, shall have liberty to pay to their mother £5 a year instead of a third of the land, or else she to hold of the land her life-time. Also I give her £50 out of my moveable Estate to her free dispose, and the use of my young Children's portions until they come of age. I give to my son John Porter, besides his house and Lands adjoining to it that I have given him a Deed of, I now give him 13 acres of my Land in Plymouth Meadow. I give him 1/2 of my 2 Woodlotts, the one called Poquanuck Path Lott, the other called the Woulfe pit Lott. I give to my son Daniel Porter all my House & Land on the East side of the Great River that now doth or hereafter may belong to my Estate, and my Pasture by Mr. Allyn's house as it bounds north & East on Mr. Allyn's Land, with all the Tackling and Arms provided him for Trooping, and 100 of Apple Trees that he shall choose out of my Nursery. I give to my son David Porter my Dwelling house and Barn, Orchard, Garden, Outhouseing, Cyder Mill & Press, wth the Furnis in the House, the muck in the Yard belonging to it, with the 4 acres of Homelott on the West side of the Highway adjoining Timothy Loomis his Lott. I also give him 5 acres of my Plymouth Meadow Lott. I give him the other half of my 2 Woodlotts mentioned in my son John's Legacy. As for the House & Homelott my son-in-Law Peter Mills now lives on, my Will is that he and his now wife shall have it their live's time, the property to remain as it is at present. And after the decease of the sd. Peter and his now wife, that house & Homested to be to their Eldest son, & to be reconed to my daughter Joannah at £13-10-00 of her portion. The remainder of my Moveable Estate, with 6 acres of Land bounding East on the 8 acres of Woodland I gave to David, that shall be equally divided among my six daughters. What I owe to be paid out of my Personal Estate, and what is due to me to belong to my Personal Estate. I appoint my wife and son John Executors. I desire my Brother Timothy Loomis and my son Thomas Moore to be Supervisors.
Witness: Timothy Loomis, Joseph Porter.
John Porter sen., Ls.
Court Record, Page 82--2 March, 1698-9:
Will & Invt. exhibited by Joannah The Relict. Proven.
Page 50--(Vol. IX) 4 February, 1717-18: Upon Motion of Joannah Porter to the Court to set out of the Estate of John Porter to her according to the Will, Objection was made that there was no attested copy of a Will.
Page 53--4 March, 1717-18: This Court appoint Daniel Loomis, David Loomis and John Palmer to set out to her some Estate.
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! (1) "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," comp. by Charles William Manwarin g, Vol. 1, Hartford District 1635-1700 (Hartford, 1904) p.498,499,577-578. Cites: (a) Vol. V , p.100-103,196. (b) Vol. VI, p.107-109.
(2) Wes Skinner. E-mail: WSkinn1@Christcom.net. Posting to http://worldconnect.genealogy.ro otsweb.com, 12 Mar 2000.
(3) "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generati ons of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register," by James Savage ( 1860-1862; rpt. "Savage New England Register," http://www.usgennet.org/usa/vt/state/savage, N ov 2000) Vol. 3.
! Birth: (1a) s/o John PORTER. (2,3) s/o John PORTER/Mary STANLEY. 3 Jun 1651, Windsor, CT.
Marriage to Joannah GAYLORD: (1b) Named wife Joannah in his will. (2) 16 Sep 1669, Windsor , CT. (3) 16 Dec 1669.
Death: (1b) Will dtd 7 Sep 1698. Inventory of estate dtd 2 Feb 1698/9, Windsor, CT. (2) 4 J an 1698/9.
(3) Of Windsor [CT].
(3) 1672: Freeman.
(1a) 1688/9, 12 Jan: Whereas, our honoured father John PORTER of Windsor died intestate an d did not make any legal settlement of his estate, he did inform us of some things of his pur poses. We therefore, his children, John PORTER, James PORTER, Nathaniel PORTER, Samuel PORTE R, Samuel GRANT Sen. as guardian to Hezekiah PORTER, and Thomas BISSELL as guardian to Josep h PORTER, in compliance with what we know to be the mind of our father deceased, have for our selves, our heirs, executors & administrators, agreed to make distribution of our father's es tate as follows. Signed by above named parties, by Enoch DRAKE in behalf of his wife Sarah , and Thomas LOOMIS in behalf of his wife Hannah, and Rebeckah and Ruth PORTER. Wits. John A LLYN, Thomas ALLYN.
(1) 1690/1, 5 Mar: Agreement on the estate of John PORTER Sen. of Windsor exhibited in Hart ford, CT court and approved, and administration granted to John PORTER.
(1a) 1694, 19 Dec: Inventory of the estate of Samuel PORTER of Windsor taken by Timothy PH ELPS Sen. and Thomas STOUGHTON. The next of kin: the brothers and sisters, John PORTER, Jame s PORTER, Nathaniel, Hezekiah, Joseph PORTER, Sarah DRAKE, Hannah LOOMYS, Rebeckah LOOMYS, Ru th LOOMYS.
(1b) 1698, 7 Sep: Sergt. John PORTER of Windsor wrote his will. I give to my wife, if she s urvive me, the use of all my housing and homestead on the east side of the highway before m y door until the heirs hereafter mentioned come of age. Also I give her a third part of al l my improved land during her widowhood, excepting only my pasture by Mr. ALLYN's. If she ma rry again, then my three sons, John, Daniel and David PORTER, shall have liberty to pay to th eir mother 5 pounds a year instead of a third of the land, or else she to hold of the land he r life-time. Also I give her 50 pounds out of my moveable estate to her free dispose, and th e use of my young children's portions until they come of age. I give to my son John PORTER , besides his house and lands adjoining to it that I have given him a deed of, 13 acres of m y land in Plymouth Meadow. I give him 1/2 of my 2 wood lots, the one called Poquanuck Path Lo t, the other called the Woulfe Pit Lot. I give to my son Daniel PORTER all my house & land o n the east side of the Great River that belongs to my estate, and my pasture by Mr. ALLYN's h ouse as it bounds north & east on Mr. ALLYN's land, with all the tackling and arms provided h im for trooping, and 100 of apple trees that he shall choose out of my nursery. I give to m y son David PORTER my dwelling house and barn, orchard, garden, outhousing, cider mill & pres s, with the furnis in the house, the muck in the uard belonging to it, with the 4 acres of ho melot on the west side of the Highway adjoining Timothy LOOMIS his lot. I also give him 5 ac res of my Plymouth Meadow Lot. I give him the other half of my 2 woodlots mentioned in my so n John's legacy. As for the house & homelot my son-in-law Peter MILLS now lives on, my wil l is that he and his now wife shall have it their live's time, the property to remain as it i s at present. And after the decease of the said Peter and his now wife, that house & homeste ad to be to their eldest son & to be reconed to my daughter Joannah at 13.10.00 of her portio n. The remainder of my moveable estate, with 6 acres of land bounding east on the 8 acres o f woodland I have to David, that shall be equally divided among my 6 daughters. What I owe t o be paid out of my personal estate, and what is due to me to belong to my personal estate . I appoint my wife and son John executos. I desire my brother Timothy LOOMIS and my son Th omas MOORE to be supervisors. Signed John PORTER Sen. Wits. Timothy LOOMIS, Joseph PORTER.
(1b) 1698/9, 2 Feb: Inventory of estate of Sergt. John PORTER of Windsor, CT taken by Joh n WOLCOTT, Deacon Joseph LOOMIS, and Lt. Matthew ALLYN.
(1) 1698/9, 2 Mar: Will & inventory of the estate of Sergt. John PORTER of Windsor exhibite d in Hartford court by Joannah the relict and proved.
(1) 1717/8, 4 Feb: Upon the motion of Joannah PORTER to the court to set out of the estat e of John PORTER to her according to the will, objection was made that there was no atteste d copy of a will.
(1) 1717/8, 4 Mar: The court at Hartford appointed Daniel LOOMIS, David LOOMIS and John PAL MER to set out to Joannah PORTER some estate.
Noted as being a witness to the will of Walter Hills of Ramsey, Essex on 06 April 1560.