Individual Details

Huntington Porter's parents were Rev John Porter and Mary Huntington, daughter of Samuel Huntington. Mary died 22 Nov 1801 - John on 12 Mar 1802, in the 63rd year of his ministry. Rev. John Porter was born 2 Feb 1716, Abington, Massachusetts.

Huntington Porter graduated from Harvard 1777 and was ordained as a minister at Rye, NH, 29 Dec 1784. He preached there for nearly fifty years. He married (1) Susanna Sargent, daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel P. Sargent of Haverhill, at one time Chief Justice of Massachusetts. Susanna died in Feb of 1794, aged 30. Huntingdon then married (2) Sarah Moulton on 30 Mar 1797 at North Hampton NH. Sarah was the daughter of Jonathan Moulton of Hampton. Huntington and Sarah were married by the Rev. Benjamin Thurston who was Sarah's stepfather, having married her widowed mother. Sarah was born in Hampton 13 Jun 1779 and died there 2 Jan 1835.

NewEnglandAncestors.org
Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to 1900
Hampton, New Hampshire, first called Winnacunnet, was settled in 1638 by the Reverend Stephen Bachiler (ca. 1561–1656) and a small group of followers from Newbury, Massachusetts. While settlement had commenced in the summer of that year, the church was dedicated by Mr. Bachiler on 14 October 1638, the date usually considered as the beginning of the town. But the grant from the government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay (which exercised control over the area at the time), was given on 6 June 1639, when Hampton was "allowed to be a town and hath power to choose a constable and other officers." Thus the town of Hampton officially dates from 1639.

Birth	27 Mar 1755
Death	7 Mar 1844	Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Marriage		Susanna Sargent

Spouse	Susanna Sargent (1764 - 1794)
Child	Nathaniel Sargent Porter (1789 - 1827)