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October Herodias was similarly charged, and acquitted as well. According to most writers on the subject, Porter eventually married Herodias, and she co-signed several deeds with him in 1671. In the early 1670s Porter made large conveyances of his Pettaquamscutt lands to the Gardiner children of Herodias, and also made a conveyance to Herodias' son Thomas Hicks of
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October 1667 an indictment was made "against Mr. John Porter of Narragansett in the King's Province and Harrud Long alias Gardiner for that they are suspected to cohabit and so to live in way of
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