Sylvester Durant1

b. circa 1778, d. 30 March 1836
Sylvester Durant|b. c 1778\nd. 30 Mar 1836|p395.htm|Jacob Durant|b. c 1747\nd. 30 Mar 1821|p384.htm|Mercy Farrar|b. 17 Jun 1747\nd. b 20 Sep 1810|p385.htm|Benjamin Durant|b. 19 Aug 1709|p404.htm|Mary Butler|b. 27 Dec 1716|p405.htm|Joseph Farrar|b. 10 Oct 1716\nd. 20 Apr 1797|p513.htm|Deborah Richardson|b. 1 Jun 1727\nd. 31 June 1808|p514.htm|

Great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
3rd great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Sylvester Durant was born circa 1778.1 He was the son of Jacob Durant and Mercy Farrar.1 He married Betsy Warren on 27 February 1806 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2 He died on 30 March 1836 at age 57.3 He was buried in Hildreth Burying Ground, Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.3,4
     
Additional Data
Silvester Durant was named in the distribution of his grandmother Deborah Farrar's estate ordered at Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1810: "pay to the children & grand children of Mercy deceased who was a daughter & the wife of Jacob Durant; viz... to Silvester Durant a son of the first Mercy..."5 Click to view image

Citations

  1. [S110] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dracut Massachusetts (Boston: The Essex Institute, 1914), citing gravestone record, Hildreth Burying Ground, died age 57.
  2. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), citing church record, First Congregational Church (now Unitarian), Chelmsford Centre.
  3. [S110] Dracut VR (published), citing gravestone record, Hildreth Burying Ground.
  4. [S633] Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online <http://www.newenglandancestors.org/>.
  5. [S201] Deborah Farrar, Probate file no. 7284, Middlesex Probate Court, East Cambridge, Massachusetts.