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WHO WAS DAVID PORTERFIELD, SR.?

 

Frances Porterfield Willis, editor of the (now out of print) family newsletter, Porterfield Lines, stated in Volume III, No. 2, March 1993,

"The central question in trying to reconstruct the history of the Georgia Porterfields is, ‘Who was David Porterfield?’ A wealth of genealogical facts dating from his marriage to Sarah Nunn on December 3, 1778 in Guilford County, North Carolina prove that David Porterfield was the progenitor of the Georgia Porterfields…."

For many years numerous family researchers could trace David Porterfield, Sr., only back to Guilford County, North Carolina, and his marriage to Sarah Nunn in 1778. That marriage was documented by a marriage bond record listed in An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. (Record # 02358. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977) Unfortunately, for an equal number of years the marriage bond was the only official record found in the State of North Carolina or anywhere else that mentioned David Porterfield or Sarah Nunn before they migrated to Georgia in 1787. Still, Porterfield researchers wanted to know:

Who was David Porterfield, Sr.?

  1. (a) Was he a descendant of the Porterfields of Cumberland County, North Carolina as stated by Frank Burke Porterfield in his 1947 book The Porterfields, or (b) was he a descendant of another line? to Porterfields of Cumberland County, NC
  2. Who were his parents and where did they come from? to "Who Were His Parents...?"
  3. Who were his grandparents and where did they come from? to "Who Were His Grandparents...?"
  4. He was a Pioneer! Was he also a Patriot? (New data, Nov 2005) to Pioneer!...or Patriot?
  5. (a) Who were David Porterfield, Sr.’s children? (Updated 2005, new data) to Who Were His Children?
    (b) Elizabeth and Mary, Daughters or Granddaughters? to "...Daughters or Granddaughters?"
  6. Who Was the Other Unidentified Porterfield Female? to "...Other Unidentified Female?"

(Click on the questions in numerical order to discover the answers and the supporting research and conclusions.)

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