Joanna Smith, 1692–1744 (aged 51 years)

Name
Joanna Smith
Given names
Joanna
Surname
Smith
Birth October 16, 1692 37 26
Birth of a sisterRuth Smith
December 1, 1694 (aged 2 years)
Birth of a sisterSusannah Smith
April 20, 1698 (aged 5 years)
Birth of a sisterThankful Smith
November 4, 1700 (aged 8 years)
Birth of a sisterMercy Smith
August 6, 1702 (aged 9 years)
Birth of a sisterEsther Smith
October 30, 1705 (aged 13 years)
Birth of a sisterExperience Smith
July 11, 1708 (aged 15 years)
Birth of a brotherZephaniah Smith
February 16, 1710 (aged 17 years)
MarriageNathaniel Porter — View this family
June 1, 1715 (aged 22 years)
Birth of a daughterJoanna Porter
about 1716 (aged 23 years)
Death of a grandmotherElizabeth Judd
after 1716 (aged 23 years)

Birth of a daughterRuth Porter
December 1, 1717 (aged 25 years)
Birth of a daughterAbigail Porter
November 1, 1719 (aged 27 years)
Birth of a daughterSarah Porter
February 27, 1722 (aged 29 years)
Birth of a sonNathaniel Porter
January 20, 1724 (aged 31 years)
Birth of a daughterEsther Porter
March 19, 1726 (aged 33 years)
Birth of a sonJohn Porter
September 6, 1728 (aged 35 years)
Birth of a sonThomas Porter
July 22, 1730 (aged 37 years)
Death of a sisterEsther Smith
before November 19, 1739 (aged 47 years)
Marriage of a childPeter Welton — Abigail Porter — View this family
November 22, 1739 (aged 47 years)
Note: "On 22 November 1739 Abigail, dau. Nathaniel, in the North Purchase in Woodbury, m. Peter Welto…
Marriage of a childSamuel Church — Sarah Porter — View this family
June 2, 1740 (aged 47 years)
Marriage of a childJames Frisbie — Joanna Porter — View this family
June 16, 1743 (aged 50 years)
Death August 20, 1744 (aged 51 years)
LDS baptism September 6, 1887 (143 years after death)

LDS endowment February 10, 1888 (143 years after death)

LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States

LDS child sealing September 29, 1956 (212 years after death)

LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States

LDS spouse sealingNathaniel Porter — View this family
June 12, 1963 (218 years after death)

LDS temple: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Unique identifier
67666FDA36E344839456A7FFEF6F3C3D5DB7

Last change July 20, 2015

Family with parents
father
1655–
Birth: August 25, 1655 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
mother
Marriage
Marriage: November 20, 1691 —
11 months
herself
1692–1744
Birth: October 16, 1692 37 26 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 20, 1744 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
2 years
younger sister
1694–
Birth: December 1, 1694 39 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1698–
Birth: April 20, 1698 42 32 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1700–
Birth: November 4, 1700 45 35 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
21 months
younger sister
1702–
Birth: August 6, 1702 46 36 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
younger sister
1705–1739
Birth: October 30, 1705 50 40 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: before November 19, 1739 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
3 years
younger sister
1708–
Birth: July 11, 1708 52 42 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
20 months
younger brother
1710–
Birth: February 16, 1710 54 44 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
Father’s family with Lydia Hewitt
father
1655–
Birth: August 25, 1655 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
step-mother
Marriage
Marriage: about 1680 —
2 years
half-brother
1681–
Birth: about 1681 25 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
4 years
half-sister
1684–
Christening: August 17, 1684 28 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
8 months
half-sister
1685–
Birth: April 12, 1685 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
15 months
half-sister
1686–1780
Christening: June 30, 1686 30 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: June 16, 1780 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
4 years
half-sister
1690–
Birth: February 16, 1690 34 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
Family with Nathaniel Porter
husband
1692–1758
Birth: March 28, 1692 41 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 28, 1758 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
herself
1692–1744
Birth: October 16, 1692 37 26 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 20, 1744 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: June 1, 1715 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
19 months
daughter
1716–1770
Birth: about 1716 23 23 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: about 1770 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
23 months
daughter
1717–1794
Birth: December 1, 1717 25 25 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: February 1794 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
23 months
daughter
1719–1796
Birth: November 1, 1719 27 27 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: August 17, 1796 — Bridgewater, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
2 years
daughter
1722–1806
Birth: February 27, 1722 29 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 21, 1806 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
23 months
son
1724–1790
Birth: January 20, 1724 31 31 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: about 1790 — Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
2 years
daughter
1726–
Birth: March 19, 1726 33 33 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:
3 years
son
1728–1793
Birth: September 6, 1728 36 35 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1793 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
23 months
son
1730–1800
Birth: July 22, 1730 38 37 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1800 — Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA
Nathaniel Porter + Ruth Woodruff
husband
1692–1758
Birth: March 28, 1692 41 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 28, 1758 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
partner’s partner
1692–1713
Birth: February 15, 1692 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 14, 1713 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: January 1, 1713 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
10 months
step-son
1713–1713
Birth: November 4, 1713 21 21 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: December 1, 1713 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Nathaniel Porter + Deborah Bishop
husband
1692–1758
Birth: March 28, 1692 41 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 28, 1758 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
partner’s partner
1702–1750
Birth: February 19, 1702 47 29 — Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: September 16, 1750 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: June 20, 1745 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Nathaniel Porter + Elizabeth Gilbert
husband
1692–1758
Birth: March 28, 1692 41 29 — Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 28, 1758 — Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
partner’s partner
1700–1793
Christening: September 8, 1700 — Greenfield-Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: October 9, 1793 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: January 29, 1752 — Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
4 years
step-son
1755–
Birth: about 1755 62 54 — Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death:
Note

BIRTH: Land Records of Farmington, LR 1:3: "Johanah Smith the daughter of Joseph Smith was born the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1692." (Land Records include Vital Records.) This family found on "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Ancestry.com database "Joanna Smith, daughter of Joseph Smith, bap. Oct. 16, 1692."

FARMINGTON Farmington Deeds, Family History Library film 4218, item 1, Vol. 6, p. 220: Signed, sealed and delivered by Joanah Porter in ye pre---ce of John Hooker, Loger or Roger Hooker of Farmington March 8th day 1742, then said Joanah Porter wife of Nathaniel Porter came and personally acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be her free act and deed before me, John Hooker, Justin Page, Joanah Porter’s acknowledgement. Entered May ye 19th by John Hart. The family's inheritance land was sold and signatures of siblings followed: Elizabeth Cowles, Ruth Sedgwick, Susanah Gridley, Thankful Smith, Mercy Smith, Experience Smith, Isaac Cowles, William Porter, Joseph Woodford, Joseph Smith or Smita, Yg Garner Smith, Nathaniel Porter, Joseph Sedgwick, Ga---- Gridley, Lydia Woodford, Mary Portter. We know Joanna was still alive July 12, 1743 when she and Nathaniel signed a deed selling land inherited from her father Joseph Smith. (Farmington Deeds 6:410, Family History Library 4218, item 1.)

WOODBURY Joanna Porter admitted to the Congregational Church Sept 25, 1737. "History of Ancient Woodbury," Family History Library 974.6 H2cw, p. 820.

FAMILY Joanna Smith Porter had eight children ("Genealogy of The Cowles Family in America" Vol. I, compiled by Col. Calvin Duvall Cowles, U.S.A., retired, Historian of the Cowles Family Association, published by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Co. New Haven, Conn. 1929, Family History Library film 476957 Item 2.)

DEATH She must have died before 1746 when he remarried. There is a death recorded in Bethlehem of ---Porter, an adult on 20 August 1744, which almost certainly was Joanna, especially because Nathaniel remarried the next year. Since there was no other Porter family in Bethlehem, we can be almost certain it was Joanna. (Family History Library film 1522005 Item 1.)

Note

Barbour Collection of Farmington Vital Records, Family History Library book 974.6 V2w1, Vol 12, p. 313. In this record he is called Nathan. "Nathan Porter and Joanna Smith married 1 June 1715." Nathaniel Porter named as husband of Joanna Smith in Farmington Deed 6:220, Family History Library 4218, item 1, dated 21 Dec. 1739. Nathanial Porter named as one of the seven heirs of Joseph Smith, father of his wife Joanna, in Farmington Deeds, 6:221, dated 1 Dec. 1739. Joanna Porter is named as daughter of Joseph Smith of Farmington in Farmington Deeds, Family History Library film 4218, item 1, Vol. 6, p. 221, dated 1 Dec. 1739.

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