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This thread has been running a long time! Thank you for such an excellent review of the Asahel Porter "mystery". I believe I can support the view that Asahel was the son of Josiah Porter / Sarah Bradstreet, married at Rowley Jan. 11, 1749, through the lineage and of Asahel's sister Anna Porter, wife of Jacob Tedford, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. These are the children of Anna and Jacob:
1. 4/22/1790 Gertrude "Gitty" - named after Jacob's mother
2. 10/25/1791 Asahel - named after Anna's brother who died at Lexington
3. 1793 Frances
4. 6/20/1795 Jacob - named after dad
5. 1797 Benjamin
6. 4/9/1799 Milford Bradstreet - after grandmothers Gitty Mulford and Sarah Bradstreet (Sarah Bradstreet was wife of Josiah Porter)
7. 4/8/1801 Anna - named after mom
8. 1803 Samuel
9. 4/16/1806 Josiah - after maternal grandfather Josiah Porter
10.1807 Henry - after paternal grandfather Henry Tedford
11.1809 John
12.1811 Charles Frederick
13.1814 William Henry
source: Brown, George S.: Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993) p.270. (among others)
Jan 17, 2018, 7:10:38 PM
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