John Porter, (son?)

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Larkin Lancelot "Landlot" Porter was born in 1805 in South Carolina; died after 1870 in Jasper Co, Mississippi .

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1744, Lancaster Co, Virginia; another Landlot?
• Military: Between 1781 and 1783, Revolutionary War, South Carolina
• Census: 1790, Union Co, South Carolina; ck profile
• Property: 16 Dec 1806, Homochitto River, Adams Co, Mississippi

Notes:

Either there were two Lancelot Porters or something has gone amiss in records. The seems credible evidence for both.

American State Papers, Lands, II, pages 243-248 
[from "Amite Co., Mississippi, 1699 to 1865, volumes I and II"; compiled by Casey and Otken - abstract of applications made to and permission granted by the Register of the Land Office west of the Pearl River to settlers on lands ceded to the United States under the Act of Congress of the 3rd day of March, 1807]:  Called "Lancelot" in the will of his father, Edward Sanders PORTER. 
Several researchers have become confused by the following dates and places - there MAY be another Landlot PORTER and Winnie [SUTH] with similar dates and places. I believe the 1744 birth in Lancaster Co., VA and 1831 death in Mississippi are correct. [BCVS, 1999] 


PORTER Bible, in possession of James Monroe PORTER-Mary THOMPSON descendants (as of 1999), gives following information:

Landlot PORTER, born Feb 2, 1750 in Union Co., SC died Jan 3, 1791 in Union Co., SC. Wife Winnie, born Aug 11, 1752, died 1795 in Union Co., SC.

Shadrach PORTER, born Aug 10, 1780 in SC, died Jul 17, 1827, in 'Loisiana'; Shadrack married: Elizabeth CAMPBELL on March 2, 1813; marriage recorded in St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, St. Martinsville, LA, vol. 5, entry 290. (Certificate lists parents as Landlot PORTER and Winnie PALMORE.)

PORTER, Landlot
State: Mississippi Year: 1810
County: Franklin County Record
MS 1810 Territorial Census
Aged 87 years

Records of FORTNER-PORTER Cemetery, copied in May 1974 in Siwell, Hinds Co., MS (between Jackson & Raymond, MS) by Mrs. Jean Bevis Jones, 318 E.
Langley Blvd,. Universal City, TX, 78148 (published in Family Puzzlers, number 413, Sep. 18, 1975, page 2-3)
"Mildred Steele" called from Texas, & sent me much primary PORTER material she?s been researching for years, including many land records & the location of my Landlott PORTER?s grave in Hinds County, MS. She was the first person, besides myself, to have info that Landlot died in MS - different from the DAR records. I already had his succession (opening of the estate - he died intestate) #266 Feb. 24, 1834 from Lafayette Parish, LA Clerk of Courts? office. This was listed in Fr. Donald Hebert?s SW Louisiana Records, in which my brother, Michael, did much research - early on in our genealogy work ca. 1994. Mike also relocated the cemetery, & took pictures in the spring of 1999.

http://www.natchezbelle.org/sw/pioneer-p.htm


Birth:
family Bible record

Military:
Foot soldier and cavalry (enlisted ca 1776) for South Carolina in the American Revolution in Col. BRANDON's army under Capt. Joseph JOLLY.
(Capt. JOLLY killed in battle near Union, SC.)
*DAR Revolutionary War Participant, soldier for South Carolina, p. 2343
20 days duty as Horseman from 25 Jun thru 15 Sept 1781
43 days duty as Private of Foot: 17 Feb thru 31 Mar 1782
31 days duty as Private of Foot from 1 Jun to 1 July 1782
43 days duty as Private of Foot: 17 Feb thru 31 Mar 1783
(from Stub entries to Indents issued in payment of Claims against SC growing out of the Revolution; Book X, Part II, Columbia, S.C. 1925)
http://www.natchezbelle.org/sw/pioneer-p.htm

Census:
US Census, Union Co., South Carolina. M637_11 page 93

Landlot Porter
free white males (under 16) (bef 1774) 4
(over 16) 1
free white females 4
slaves 2



Property:
1804- Unrecorded Land Claims

No 1914. Claimant" Lancelot Porter , 24 Sept 1804. Witness: Reuben Mayfield, 22 Jan. 1805.
Certificate D-161 issued 16 Dec. 1806. Misss. Ter., Adams Co. Hoochitta River. Purchased from Thomas Aldredge the right of preference as claim by sd Aldreiged in Feb. 1803, when he cleared a parcel of land, made a brush fence and planted corn, also peach trees and in 1804 Lancelot Porter settled sd palce and cleared 3 acres and is now liing on it. Miss. Ter., Adams Co. // Thos. Aldridge, of sd county, for $500 in hand paid by Lancelot Porter, of sd county, sells all right of occupancy on land on south side of Homchitta River, June 1804.
Wit" Hiram Downs, John Scarlett and Shad Port. Proved before the Board, 10 Sept 1805.
[ McBee p578]
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also, Stephen Middleton, 1st cousin of Mary Middleton Porter, his dau-in-law:

Abstracts of Early Records by May Wilson McBee. The Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805

Certificate D-66 issued Sept. 26, 1806. Miss. Ter. Stephen Middleton claims a preemption right to 155 acres, improved and cultivated in 1803. He has lived on it ever since, on the main fork of Homochitto River, in Adams County.

No. 1322. Claimant: Stephen Middleton, 28 Mar. 1804. Witness: Reuben Mayfield. 6. Certificate D-67, issued 26 Sept. 1806. Miss. Ter. Stephen Middleton claims the right to become the purchaser of the United States of 112 acres on the south of the Homochitto River, by virtue of its having been inhabited and cultivated in 1802 by Joseph Bradley, who was at that time the head of a family, and inhabited and cultivated the same on 3 Mar. 1803, and said Joseph Bradley sold the tract to said Stephen Middleton.



Died:
family Bible record
death date: 3 Jan 1791 Union Co, South Carolina
There may be a couple of Landlot Porters that cause some confusion. The Porter Bible listed here was taken from Gerald Allred page. This record causes some problems since Landlot shows up in later census and no mention is made here of a Landlot junior. It is conceivable that one of Landlot's brothers may have named a child after him but the last daughter could not be his if the bible deceased date is correct.
http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/porter.lancelot.html

Lancelot married Winifred "Winnie" Palmer in 1778 in Bayou Vermilion, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana . Winifred (daughter of Parmenas Palmer and Mary Draper) was born in 1753 in Amelia Co, Virginia; died in 1794 in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 4 Sep 1792, Union Co, South Carolina

Notes:

Will:
1792 -
Box 1, Pkg.37, Will Bk.A, Pg.6 Probate Judges Office, Union, SC
In the name of God Amen. I Edward Sanders Porter, of the State of South Carolina and county of Union Being thro the mercy and goodness of God tho weak in Body yet of sound and perfect understanding and memory do constitute this my last will and Testament Revokeing and disannuling all other wills here to fore made. and first too will and order that all my Lawfull Debts be paid and further I will and bequeath to my Loving wife during the Term of her widowhood this house where in I now dwell with all the furniture and Tenaments that lie about it wit all the Cattle, hogs sheep one Bay Horse named John and at her marrying or Death to be Equally divided among all my Children. and I will to my son Calvin Porter One bay Mare named doe Likewise to my son Epaphroditus a "Statling" Colt, Named Selah all which I will and order after my Death, And do constitute my two Eldest sons Lancelot Porter & Hancock Porter Executors of my Last will & Testament and Trustees for my wife and children. In witness whereof I here unto set my hand and Seal this first day of December 1791.

Edward Sanders X Porter (Seal) his mark
William Campbell

Jesse X Holcom his mark
Nicholas X Lazarus his mark
RECORDED SEPT. 4, 1792

http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/porter.lancelot.html

Edward married Mary Jeter about 1749. Mary was born about 1710; died after 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Parmenas married Mary Draper about 1740 in Virginia. Mary was born on 25 Mar 1718 in North Farnham Parish, RIchmond Co, Virginia; died on 6 Oct 1761 in Lunenburg Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]