Jacob Durant1

b. circa 1747, d. 30 March 1821
Jacob Durant|b. c 1747\nd. 30 Mar 1821|p384.htm|Benjamin Durant|b. 19 Aug 1709|p404.htm|Mary Butler|b. 27 Dec 1716|p405.htm|Thomas Durant|b. 7 Jan 1674|p424.htm|Sarah Jaquith|b. 21 Sep 1677|p425.htm|John Butler|b. 22 Jul 1677\nd. 1759|p482.htm|Elizabeth Wilson|b. 28 Jan 1682/83|p483.htm|

2nd great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
4th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     Jacob Durant was born circa 1747.3,4 He was the son of Benjamin Durant and Mary Butler.2 He married first Mercy Farrar, daughter of Joseph Farrar and Deborah Richardson, on 23 February 1769 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.5,6 He married second Nancy Stone on 5 September 1794 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.7,8 He died on 30 March 1821 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, at age 73.3
     
     Jacob Durant was a Dunstable Minuteman.9 The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War:
Durant, Jacob, Dunstable. Private, Capt. Leonard Butterfield's co., Col. Ebenezer Bridge's regt. of Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to camp at Cambridge; left rendezvous April 28, 1775; service, 10 days; also, Private, Capt. Zachariah Fitch's co., Col. Samuel Brewer's regt; service from Aug. 23, 1776, to Sept. 30, 1776, 1 mo. 9 days.10
Additional Data
Jacob Durant appeared on the 1790 U.S. Census on 1790 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In his household were 1 male over 16 (Jacob), 2 males under 16, and 1 female.11 Click to view image

Jacob Durant appeared on the 1800 U.S. Census on 1800 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In his household were 1 male 45 or older (Jacob), 1 female 45 or older.12 Click to view image

Jacob Durant appeared on the 1810 U.S. Census on 1810 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. In his household were 1 male 45 or older (Jacob), 1 female 16 through 25, and 1 female 45 or older.13 Click to view image That this is our Jacob is only a guess. However, as far as can be determined, there were but two Jacob Durants, father and son, in New England anywhere near this time period. This Jacob is too old to be the son, and there is strong evidence that the younger Jacob died before 1810. Amherst is about twenty miles from Tyngsborough.

Jacob Durant appeared on the 1820 U.S. Census on 1820 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. In his household were 1 male 45 or older (Jacob), 1 female 16 through 25, and 1 female 45 or older.14 Click to view image This is the only Jacob Durant in the 1820 census living in any New England state.

Children of Jacob Durant and Mercy Farrar

Citations

  1. [S147] Sue Farrar Thorne, Descendants of Jacob Farrar Jr and Hannah Hayward of Lancaster, Massachusetts to 1825 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 2001), 118.
  2. [S152] F. Apthorp Foster, ed., Vital Records of Billerica Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908). Hereinafter cited as Billerica VR.
  3. [S929] Daniel F. Secomb, History of the town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire : (first known as Narragansett Township Number Three, and subsequently as Southegan West) : from the grant of the township by the Great and General Court of the province of Massachusetts Bay in June, 1728 to March, 1882 : with genealogies of Amherst families, biographical sketches of natives and citizens of the town, and a sketch of the Narraganset fort fight, 19 December, 1675 (Concord, New Hampshire: Evans, Sleeper & Woodbury, 1883), 573.
  4. [S147] Sue Farrar Thorne, Descendants of Jacob Farrar Jr and Hannah Hayward of Lancaster, Massachusetts to 1825, 118 (gives c1745 birth).
  5. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914).
  6. [S201] Deborah Farrar, Probate file no. 7284, Middlesex Probate Court, East Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  7. [S114] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Lynn: Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co., 1913), citing copy of Church record kept by Rev. Nathaniel Lawrence.
  8. [S929] Daniel F. Secomb, Amherst, NH History, 573 (no date given).
  9. [S143] New-York Historical Society, Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1914, XVIII and XLVIII (New York: printed for the Society, 1916; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1996) as Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution 1775-1783, 304, 305.
  10. [S149] Secretary of the Commonwealth, compiler, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 vols. (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1907), 5: 81.
  11. [S138] Jacob Durant household, 1790 U.S. Census, Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, page 607; National Archives micropublication M637, roll 4.
  12. [S139] Jacob Durant household, 1800 U.S. Census, Tyngsborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, page 42; National Archives micropublication M32, roll 17.
  13. [S150] Jacob Durant household, 1810 U.S. Census, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, page 493; National Archives micropublication M252, roll 24.
  14. [S151] Jacob Durant household, 1820 U.S. Census, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, page 811; National Archives micropublication M33, roll 61.
  15. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), town record; Durrant in church record, First Congregational Church (now Unitarian), Chelmsford Centre.
  16. [S110] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dracut Massachusetts (Boston: The Essex Institute, 1914), citing gravestone record, Hildreth Burying Ground, died age 57.