Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . e British crown; of soldiers ofthe Cross as well; of intermarriages withthe landed gentry of New England—Wol-cotts, Trumbulls, Throops, Metcalfs,Whitings, Pitkinses, Porters, Phelpses;of hearthstones and homesteads; ofgoodly acres and seemly hospitalities; ofmanly work and womanly worth; of allthat was best of Puritan muscle, mind andbreeding. In 1752, Moses Porter, having marriedElizabeth, da
Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . e British crown; of soldiers ofthe Cross as well; of intermarriages withthe landed gentry of New England—Wol-cotts, Trumbulls, Throops, Metcalfs,Whitings, Pitkinses, Porters, Phelpses;of hearthstones and homesteads; ofgoodly acres and seemly hospitalities; ofmanly work and womanly worth; of allthat was best of Puritan muscle, mind andbreeding. In 1752, Moses Porter, having marriedElizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel andgranddaughter of William Pitkin, ofHartford, the progenitor of the family inthis country, fashioned a landed estatewhich President Dwight. in his Travels,describes as the most desirable posses-sion of the same kind and extent withinhis knowledge. It is situated two milesnorth of Old Hadley in that fair andfruitful valley, through which the Con-necticut curves in broad and placidstream before it narrows between thehills at the south. Through a centurysgrowth, Hadley had become a model NewEngland village, with its one wide street,elm embowered, its central slip of green 152. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY where cattle grazed, its spacious door-yards, its comely dwellings, its meetinghouse, of strict Covenant keeping, itstown hall for freemen. There were abid-ing memories of hardships and heroisms—of pioneer toil and adventure, of con-flicts with beasts of the forest, of Indianatrocities and brave defense against them,and most vivid of all, of the savage as-sault upon a worshipping congregationand the sudden coming to their relief andrallying of the regicide, Goffe, who, foryears, with his companion general, Whal-ley, of Cromwells army, had been secret-ly harbored in Parson Russells house,and who, when the murderous band wasrouted, vanished as mysteriously as hehad appeared. For a full century, the Porters had beenearnest Christians and public spiritedcitizen
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