This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Porter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBB.2ACI/2894.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Can see what you are trying to do, but fear I have nothing on Reason Porter line. In my search have found same thing about possible connections in the area of Butler Co. My proven line goes back to Col. John W. Porter and Sarah Clark in mid 1700's Prince Edward co. Vir. I have the line going on back to Ireland and then England. At the same time there is another group that I have ID'ed the top of it so far is HUGH PORTER AND MARY in the early 1700's Besides locations have not been able to prove any other connection. One thing I noted many years ago, is that most family lines form bonds with other family lines, they marr back and forth many times and as time moves on they made the move westward each time togather.... The second families are not the same in the John Porter and Hugh Porter lines...