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Query—Porter-Brown-.  The remains of “Col.” Reese
Porter of “North Carolina”, lie buried at Pulaski,
Tennessee, where the inscription on his tomb
states that he was born February 26, 1744
and died February 13, 1821.  He owned a large
body of land there, probably granted for
military service as he was rpoud of his
scars won in the revolution.”
He was undoubtedly a Revolutionary soldier
and is thought to have gone to North
Carolina from Pennsylvania, and to have
been related to David Reese, a signer
of the “Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.”
He married Jane Brown, who died
Aug. 30, 1806—A woman of haughty bearing
and said to have been exceedingly proud
of her family.  Tradition says that on one
occasion she stole through the enemy’s camp—
in war time and liberated her husband
who was confined in a log cabin.
Jane Brown was a daughter of William

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and Margaret Brown, Colonists who lived
in Londonderry, Ireland at the time of
her marriage and emigrated from there
to America, settling in North Carolina.

Margaret Brown died in 1801 aged one hundred
years”

Wanted, the military service of Reese Porter,
land grants to him, the record of his marriage,
evidence of his parentage or connection
with David Reese.
Was he identical with Reese Porter of Chester
County, Pennsylvania, sone of William Porter
and Mary Price, and mentioned in his
father’s will, which was proved at
West Chester, Pennsylvania, Aug. 30, 1749?
This Reese Porter had an Uncle Reese
Price and was a grandson of of Thomas and
Ann Price.
Wanted also wills, land-grants or any other
data relating to William & Margaret Brown
and their immediate descendants.  It has
their son Colonel James Brown whose
murder, and the kidnapping and massacre
of his family, from a * incident in the
History of the earliest settlements of Tennessee
(over)

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Address—Porter Farquharson Cope-
4806 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn.
Hathaways’s Register, Vol. 2 No. 8-1901, p. 478.

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