Porch of France, Virginia and Elbert County, Georgia

Guillame du Porch, one of the French gentleman escorts who came to America with Marquis de LaFayette. In 1779 when he was on leave to France, Guillame and his young wife had their only child, and the following year when his mother died in childbirth, the child was sent to America. The boy was named Guillame, but anglicized into William.

Guillame du Porch died at the age of 49 near Yorktown, Virginia on a small farm of 200 acres which the U. S. Government gave him for his service during the Revolutionary War. His son, William, as 19 years old at the time, and he married Peggy Slatt of New Kent County, Virginia.

William Porch and his wife, Peggy, removed to Elbert County, Georgia in 1824. Issue:[1]

• LaFayette Washington Porch, born 1800 in Virginia.
• John Clatt Porch, born 1801 in Virginia.
• Marie Porch, born 1803 in Virginia.
• Henry Banastre Porch, born 1804 in Virginia.
• William Porch, Jr., born 1804 in Virginia, died 1810.
• Peggy Slatt Porch, born 1805 in Virginia.
• Charles Beverley Porch, born 1807 in Virginia.
• Francis Porch, born 1808 in Virginia.
• Catherine Porch, born 1810 in Virginia.
• William Porch, born 1815 in Virginia.
• Infant daughter born dead 1817 in Virginia.

The British Army surrendered in this field in Yorktown, Virginia

Sources: [1] The Narrative History of the Du Porche, Porch Family and Families That They Intermarried With by Mattie Ruth Porch Piazza Ragland.