Sarah Patch, fourth child of Nathan Patch and Eunice Adams, married Samuel Porter on 19 Apr 1790 in Worcester Co., Massachusetts.
They were the parents of seven children;
Rufus Porter 1790-1826, Harriett Porter b. 1792, Eliza Porter b. 1794 married Jeremiah Healey, Frances Hichbom Porter 1796-1848, John Patch Porter 1799, Nathaniel Porter 1801, and Samuel Allen Porter.
Sarah Patch Porter supported herself in her widowhood by running a boardinghouse. Taking boarders was nothing new for people of limited means. In a rural setting, it generally meant providing house room for one or two people of the community, often relatives. It took on a new twist in nineteenth-century Worcester, where women like Sarah Porter supplied living quarters for the hordes of new workers.
In Mrs. Porter's will, probated Aug. 2, 1858, she left remembrances to her grandson William (son of Nathaniel), and her granddaughter Mary (daughter of Rufus and wife of Sewell Holbrook).
Her real estate she left to her son Samuel A., and daughter Frances H. Putnam, one-third each, and the remaining third to her daughter Eliza (widow of Jeremiah Healey), and the latter's daughter Harriet Draper.
Samuel A. Porter bought Mrs. Putnam's share in 1860, and the other share in 1863.
Mrs. Draper as Miss Healey taught some of us our a b c's in the little "North Infant " school-house, 22 by 22, on the west side of Summer street near its north end.
Age 88 years, 2 months, 2 days.
They were the parents of seven children;
Rufus Porter 1790-1826, Harriett Porter b. 1792, Eliza Porter b. 1794 married Jeremiah Healey, Frances Hichbom Porter 1796-1848, John Patch Porter 1799, Nathaniel Porter 1801, and Samuel Allen Porter.
Sarah Patch Porter supported herself in her widowhood by running a boardinghouse. Taking boarders was nothing new for people of limited means. In a rural setting, it generally meant providing house room for one or two people of the community, often relatives. It took on a new twist in nineteenth-century Worcester, where women like Sarah Porter supplied living quarters for the hordes of new workers.
In Mrs. Porter's will, probated Aug. 2, 1858, she left remembrances to her grandson William (son of Nathaniel), and her granddaughter Mary (daughter of Rufus and wife of Sewell Holbrook).
Her real estate she left to her son Samuel A., and daughter Frances H. Putnam, one-third each, and the remaining third to her daughter Eliza (widow of Jeremiah Healey), and the latter's daughter Harriet Draper.
Samuel A. Porter bought Mrs. Putnam's share in 1860, and the other share in 1863.
Mrs. Draper as Miss Healey taught some of us our a b c's in the little "North Infant " school-house, 22 by 22, on the west side of Summer street near its north end.
Age 88 years, 2 months, 2 days.
Sarah Patch, fourth child of Nathan Patch and Eunice Adams, married Samuel Porter on 19 Apr 1790 in Worcester Co., Massachusetts.
They were the parents of seven children;
Rufus Porter 1790-1826, Harriett Porter b. 1792, Eliza Porter b. 1794 married Jeremiah Healey, Frances Hichbom Porter 1796-1848, John Patch Porter 1799, Nathaniel Porter 1801, and Samuel Allen Porter.
Sarah Patch Porter supported herself in her widowhood by running a boardinghouse. Taking boarders was nothing new for people of limited means. In a rural setting, it generally meant providing house room for one or two people of the community, often relatives. It took on a new twist in nineteenth-century Worcester, where women like Sarah Porter supplied living quarters for the hordes of new workers.
In Mrs. Porter's will, probated Aug. 2, 1858, she left remembrances to her grandson William (son of Nathaniel), and her granddaughter Mary (daughter of Rufus and wife of Sewell Holbrook).
Her real estate she left to her son Samuel A., and daughter Frances H. Putnam, one-third each, and the remaining third to her daughter Eliza (widow of Jeremiah Healey), and the latter's daughter Harriet Draper.
Samuel A. Porter bought Mrs. Putnam's share in 1860, and the other share in 1863.
Mrs. Draper as Miss Healey taught some of us our a b c's in the little "North Infant " school-house, 22 by 22, on the west side of Summer street near its north end.
Age 88 years, 2 months, 2 days.
They were the parents of seven children;
Rufus Porter 1790-1826, Harriett Porter b. 1792, Eliza Porter b. 1794 married Jeremiah Healey, Frances Hichbom Porter 1796-1848, John Patch Porter 1799, Nathaniel Porter 1801, and Samuel Allen Porter.
Sarah Patch Porter supported herself in her widowhood by running a boardinghouse. Taking boarders was nothing new for people of limited means. In a rural setting, it generally meant providing house room for one or two people of the community, often relatives. It took on a new twist in nineteenth-century Worcester, where women like Sarah Porter supplied living quarters for the hordes of new workers.
In Mrs. Porter's will, probated Aug. 2, 1858, she left remembrances to her grandson William (son of Nathaniel), and her granddaughter Mary (daughter of Rufus and wife of Sewell Holbrook).
Her real estate she left to her son Samuel A., and daughter Frances H. Putnam, one-third each, and the remaining third to her daughter Eliza (widow of Jeremiah Healey), and the latter's daughter Harriet Draper.
Samuel A. Porter bought Mrs. Putnam's share in 1860, and the other share in 1863.
Mrs. Draper as Miss Healey taught some of us our a b c's in the little "North Infant " school-house, 22 by 22, on the west side of Summer street near its north end.
Age 88 years, 2 months, 2 days.
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