Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md, October 2026). Compiled genealogies at the back of the town history.

• “PORTER, Samuel, s. of John of Windsor, Ct., was among the first settlers of Had., where he d. Sept. 6, 1689. He m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Stanley of Hartford, Ct. She d. Dec. 18, 1708. Children — Samuel, b. April 6, 1660; … Hezekiah, b. Jan. 7, 1665; John, b. Dec. 12, 1666; Hannah, b. 1670 …; Mehitable, b. Sept. 15, 1673 …; Experience, b. Aug. 5, 1676; Ichabod, b. June 17, 1678; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 15, 1680; Thomas, b. abt. 1683” (pp. 111-112).
• “Experience, s. of Samuel, rem. abt. 1725 to Mansfield, Ct., where he d. Aug. 28, 1750, ae. 74. He m. May 26, 1698, Abigail, dau. of Samuel Williams of Roxbury. She was b. July 12, 1674, and d. April 20, 1765, ae. 90. Children — Theoda, b. Aug. 15, 1699, m. 1719, Walbridge; Hannah, b. March 25, 1701 …; Experience, b. Dec. 15, 1702 …; John, b. Dec. 27, 1704 …; Abigail, b. March 19, 1707 …; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 26, 1709 …; Eunice, b. Dec. 30, 1712 …; Mehitable, b. July 30, 1715 …; Martha, b. Nov. 21, 1717” (p. 112).
• In the history proper: “Samuel Porter owned Thomas Stanley’s lot, and his son Samuel lived on it in 1686.” When the province lent bills of credit to the towns in 1721, “Hadley chose Westwood Cooke, Experience Porter and John Nash, trustees to let out the money” (p. 304).
• “Hadley Townsmen or Selectmen” (appendix, pp. 447-448): Experience Porter in 1709, 1712, 1714, 1717, 1719 and 1721.