Asa Porter Family from Historical Sketch of the Town of Troy, New Hampshire (1897)

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Surname: PORTER
Source:  Historical Sketch of the Town of Troy, New Hampshire and Her Inhabitants From the First
          Settlement of the Territory Now Within the Limits of the Town in 1764-1897 by M. T. 
          Stone, M.D., Press of Sentinel Printing Company, Keene, NH, 1897, page 500:

ASA PORTER was the sixth child of Asa and Eunice W. Porter of Marlborough, born July 5, 1788; 
married Sybil Osborne of Troy, and settled in Weathersfield, Vt where he resided until he came 
to Troy in 1832, when the purchased the mills formerly owned by Silas Wheeler. The following 
year he sold his real estate to Joseph M. Forristall and moved to Marlborough. He soon afterwards
returned and resided one year on the Flint place, two years on the Daniel Starkey farm, and then
moved to Waltham, Mass., where he resided ten years; in 1855 he went to Oregon, where he died.
I. HENRY A., born Oct. 12, 1817.
II. LEONARD W., born Sept. 14, 1820; married Mary Howard of Hopkinton, Mass; removed to Boston.
III. ALMIRA, born Jan. 1, 1823; married Luke Bemis of Waltham, Mass.
IV. LORINDA, born Dec. 25, 1828; married Amos W. Buttrick of Winchendon.
V. LOUISA, born March 14, 1831; married Oliver Smith of Winchendon.

HENRY A. PORTER; son of Asa, born Oct. 12, 1817; married, April 7, 1842, Czarina, daughter of 
Joseph M. Forristall, and located in Waltham, and later in Boston. He came to Troy in 1853 and 
purchased a farm of Isaac Stowell, the one now owned by Fred Whitcomb, and resided there until 
1862 or 1863, when he left town. He was a successful farmer, and served several years as one of 
the selectmen, resides in Ayer, Mass.
I. HENRIETTA J., born Nov. 2, 1850.
II. CHARLES HENRY, born Oct. 17, 1855.