Theodia Porter
Probably the eldest child of Experience Porter of Hadley, Massachusetts, and Abigail Williams of Roxbury, born at Hadley in 1699. She married Amos Walbridge of Preston and Norwich, Connecticut, in 1719, bore eight children at Norwich, Canterbury and Stafford, and died of smallpox at Stafford in December 1760. Probably the mother of Maj. Amos Walbridge.
Life
- 1699Born15 Aug 1699, Hadley, Massachusettscompiledprobable
Sources
- Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- 1719
- 1760Died16 Dec 1760, Stafford, Connecticut
"In the night between the 15th and 16th of Dec. 1760, ye wife of Ensign Ames Wallbridge died of the small pox aetat. between 60 and 70" (Stafford First Congregational Church records); her tomb gives her age as 63.
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Family
- Father
- Experience Portercompiledprobable
Sources
- Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Mother
- Abigail Williamscompiledprobable
Sources
- Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Spouse
- Amos Walbridgecompiledprobable
Sources
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Mother of Maj. Amos Walbridge. She was the eldest child of Experience Porter of Hadley and Abigail Williams of Roxbury, and her grandmother Williams was born Theodia Park. Judd’s Hadley genealogy lists her as “Theoda, b. Aug. 15, 1699, m. 1719, Walbridge” (source). She married Amos Walbridge of Preston and Norwich in 1719, bore eight children at Norwich, Canterbury and Stafford, and died at Stafford in the smallpox of December 1760: “In the night between the 15th and 16th of Dec. 1760, ye wife of Ensign Ames Wallbridge died of the small pox” (source). Two of her daughters and a granddaughter were named Theodia.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.