"The Bicentennial History of Bath County, Virginia", article submitted by Jim Mann
Mary's parents, Adam and Delilah (Tevis) Porter, raised a family of 12 children on their homestead located near Nimrod Hall, just a few miles south of Millboro Springs. Mary born in 1782, and her twin brother Joshua were Adam and Delilah's 9th and 10th children. Mary was a sixth generation descendant of Peter Porter (I) who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in January of 1622, from Warwickshire, England. The Porter family has been recorded in William A. Porter's book, "The Descendants of Peter Porter--an Emigrant of 1621", written in 1937.
John and (Mary Porter Simpson) were buried in the Simpson family burial plot located on a slope of the Simpson Ridges overlooking the Cowpasture River and Route 39, near the Old Windy Cove Church which was near Ft. Dickinson, only a short distance from Millboro Springs. Now known as Windy Cove farm, originally owned by son, Rezin M. Simpson.
Mary's parents, Adam and Delilah (Tevis) Porter, raised a family of 12 children on their homestead located near Nimrod Hall, just a few miles south of Millboro Springs. Mary born in 1782, and her twin brother Joshua were Adam and Delilah's 9th and 10th children. Mary was a sixth generation descendant of Peter Porter (I) who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in January of 1622, from Warwickshire, England. The Porter family has been recorded in William A. Porter's book, "The Descendants of Peter Porter--an Emigrant of 1621", written in 1937.
John and (Mary Porter Simpson) were buried in the Simpson family burial plot located on a slope of the Simpson Ridges overlooking the Cowpasture River and Route 39, near the Old Windy Cove Church which was near Ft. Dickinson, only a short distance from Millboro Springs. Now known as Windy Cove farm, originally owned by son, Rezin M. Simpson.
"The Bicentennial History of Bath County, Virginia", article submitted by Jim Mann
Mary's parents, Adam and Delilah (Tevis) Porter, raised a family of 12 children on their homestead located near Nimrod Hall, just a few miles south of Millboro Springs. Mary born in 1782, and her twin brother Joshua were Adam and Delilah's 9th and 10th children. Mary was a sixth generation descendant of Peter Porter (I) who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in January of 1622, from Warwickshire, England. The Porter family has been recorded in William A. Porter's book, "The Descendants of Peter Porter--an Emigrant of 1621", written in 1937.
John and (Mary Porter Simpson) were buried in the Simpson family burial plot located on a slope of the Simpson Ridges overlooking the Cowpasture River and Route 39, near the Old Windy Cove Church which was near Ft. Dickinson, only a short distance from Millboro Springs. Now known as Windy Cove farm, originally owned by son, Rezin M. Simpson.
Mary's parents, Adam and Delilah (Tevis) Porter, raised a family of 12 children on their homestead located near Nimrod Hall, just a few miles south of Millboro Springs. Mary born in 1782, and her twin brother Joshua were Adam and Delilah's 9th and 10th children. Mary was a sixth generation descendant of Peter Porter (I) who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in January of 1622, from Warwickshire, England. The Porter family has been recorded in William A. Porter's book, "The Descendants of Peter Porter--an Emigrant of 1621", written in 1937.
John and (Mary Porter Simpson) were buried in the Simpson family burial plot located on a slope of the Simpson Ridges overlooking the Cowpasture River and Route 39, near the Old Windy Cove Church which was near Ft. Dickinson, only a short distance from Millboro Springs. Now known as Windy Cove farm, originally owned by son, Rezin M. Simpson.
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