Background
Like many Creoles, Porter was of West Indian, Jamaican Maroon, Liberated African, and Nova Scotian settler descent. His paternal grandfather was Arthur Thomas Porter I (1834-1908), a successful Creole businessman of West Indian and Jamaican Maroon parentage. A.T. Porter I's father was Guy Porter, a West Indian immigrant to Sierra Leone via England, who became a headman of Kent Village. Guy married a Maroon colonist. The Porter family house owned by Arthur Thomas Porter I was at No. 11 Wilberforce Street in the heart of Settler Town and near Zion Methodist Church.
Arthur Porter III is also of "Settler" or Nova Scotian stock, by way of a Virginian ancestor who had arrived to Sierra Leone via Nova Scotia. The Virginian had occupied a house in what the Nova Scotians called Settler Town, Sierra Leone, and was one of the founders of Freetown.
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