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Andrew Porter (Revolutionary War officer)

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After the end of the war, Porter continued to serve in a military role with the Pennsylvania militia, rising to the rank of major general. He also served as the state's surveyor-general, and was one of the commissioners tasked with determining the boundaries between Pennsylvania,
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Revolutionary War officer; surveyor of western and northern State boundaries, 1784-87; Surveyor-General, 1809-13. Born near here, 1743; died at Harrisburg, 1813. His home, "Selma," is marked, a block distant.
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Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 15 June 1789–5 September 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989, p. 534.
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After the death of his first wife, he remarried to Eliza Parker (1750–1821), with whom he had eight more children, including:
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Elizabeth Rittenhouse Porter (1769–1850), who married Robert Porter Parker (1760–1800) and was the grandmother of
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Porter was married twice, first to Elizabeth McDowell (1747–1773), with whom he had five children, including:
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in the Union during the American Civil War who was an important staff officer under
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Porter was born on September 24, 1743, at Norriton, his father's farm near
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Charlotte Porter (1778–1850), who married Robert Brooke of Virginia
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Harriett Porter (1788–1864), who married Thomas McKeen (1763–1858)
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Robert Porter (1768–1842), who married Sarah Williams (1775–1816)
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Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the great-grandfather of
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to supervise the preparation of artillery ammunition for the
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Christy) Porter (1708–1771). His father had immigrated from
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as a young man, where he became a schoolmaster and amateur
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Sons of the Revolution Pennsylvania Society (1898).
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