Facts and events
Marriage | January 14, 1751 |
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LDS spouse sealing | October 28, 2007 LDS temple: Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Note | Barbour Collection of Woodbury Vital Records, "John Porter m. Deborah Hand." (Family History Library book 974.6 V2wL, Vol. 53, p. 213.) The great confusion surrounding this marriage is that her mother was also named Deborah (Bishop) Hand, wife of John Hand. When John died Deborah and her daughters Elizabeth and Deborah moved to Bethlehem, where she married John's father Nathaniel Porter, as his third wife. She moved her household into the Porter home, and in time her daughters married the Porter Brothers, Thomas and John. Thus, the Deborah Hand who married Nathaniel Porter was the mother and the Deborah Hand who married John Porter was the daughter. Also found in Bethlehem Congregational Church Records, 1738-1850, (Family History Library film 3803, p. 32.) In the Talcott Genealogies the Hand family of Guilford is listed in detail. The marriage of Deborah to Nathaniel and her daughter Deborah to John Porter were noted. (Family History Library film 4352) PROBATE of John Hand, Deborah's father: At a court of probate held in Guilford May 3, 1751 John Porter of Woodbury, husband to one of the daughters of John Hand, late of Guilford, dec’d exhibited the d-ris-ron (distribution) of the real estate of the said dec’d which was mede? by the freeholders appointed by this court to divide the same which was appointed in court and recorded to the recorded distribution on the real estate of John Hand, dec’d. Land distribution between all children, Elizabeth, John and Submit Hand and Deborah Porter. Land bounds on Abraham Doude, East on Hammanost River, “the dividing line between Killingly and Guilford,” Benjamin Hand and land formerly belonging to the heirs of old aged Joseph Hand which he willed to his grand children, John Hand and Esther Hand.” Dated May 2, 1751. (Guilford Probates, Vol. 4, p. 692, FHL film 4354.) |