Individual Details

Revolutionary Pension. Butler Co KY. John Porter. Private & sergeant VA militia. Apr 2, 1833. $110. Age 75.
[Donna Donahue had his name as John Montgomery Porter; his son as John Wilson Porter. Mr. Taylor had them as John W. and John Montgomery as the son. Other reserach omits the middle name entirely.]

Pension File W-26329
John Porter deposed on 8 Oct 1832 in Butler Co Court. He stated his age as 73. He served in the 5th Regiment of the Virginia Line in 1776. He entered service 7 Feb 1776 under Commander Col. Sharles Scott and Col. Josiah Parkes. He served two years in Morgan's Rifles. He resided in Prince Edward Co VA when he entered the Service. In March of 1778, he volunteered and marched to Charleston. About July of 1778 he enlisted for another 18 months. He served as orderly & 1st Sgt. He was discharged Jan 1782. He was in the battle at Guilford Courthouse and at Camden; he was at the High Hills at the Santee and at the battle of Eutaw. He signed his own name.
Thomas Carson, Morgantown, Butler Co made deposition on 9 Jul 1832. He was 72 years old. He served in the VA Continental Line in Feb 1776, for two years in the 5th Regt. He served with John Porter; they enlisted the same day. He also served with him when he enlisted for the second time as a sergeant. Carson was asked if he was certain this was the same John Porter and he replied that they were raised near each other in Virginia and had lived in the same neighborhood in Kentucky for thirty years. Thomas Carson was also John Porter's brother-in-law, married to Anna Porter.

Buried Porter Cemetery, SugarGrove, Butler County KY

Birth	24 Oct 1759	Prince Edward County, Virginia
Marriage	3 Jan 1785	Charlotte County, Virginia - Sarah "Sally" Clark
Marriage	3 Nov 1832	Warren County, Kentucky - Roseman Butt
Death	24 Sep 1833	Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky

Spouse	Sarah "Sally" Clark (1764 - 1832)
Child	Col. John Wilson Porter (1790 - 1846)
Child	Oliver Cromwell Porter (1793 - 1866)
Child	Ann "Nancy" Porter (1794 - 1842)
Child	Benjamin Porter (1795 - 1849)
Child	Elijah R. Porter (1795 - )
Child	William Porter (1798 - 1838)
Child	Mary Alice "Polly Ann" Porter (1802 - 1828)
Child	Beverly Porter (1805 - 1833)

Spouse

Roseman Butt (1766 - 1855)

Father	John Porter (1711 - 1781)
Mother	Mary "Polly" Anthony (1720 - 1781)
Sibling	William Porter (1746 - 1828)
Sibling	Florence Porter (1750 - 1829)
Sibling	Anna Porter (1750 - 1829)
Sibling	Nathaniel Porter (1762 - 1817)
Sibling	Oliver Porter (1763 - 1838)
Sibling	Capt Francis Marion Porter (1765 - 1821)
Sibling	Rachel Porter (1769 - 1834)