(**Note: The following information in this "Bio" section was furnished by earlier contributors to this memorial. I have not yet researched and verified any of this information. I am leaving it here for now, but have found several discrepancies in our information. For example, there are three children listed as born in the same year 1750, which is highly unlikely. I will edit it as I verify it. I am starting in Kentucky and then will research in Virginia, working my way back. I intended to add the memorial after finding more accurate information.
Betty Durrett)
Name: Bartholomew DURRETT
Birth: 1716 in England
Death: Age: 42, 1766 in Priddys Creek, Virginia, United States
Father: John William DURRETT b: abt 1680 in England
Mother: Elizabeth TYCE b: in England
Marriage 1 Mary VANHOOK b: 1729 in Virginia, United States
Married: 1740 in Virginia, United States
Children
1. Captain William Simms DURRETT b: 1742 in Virginia, United States
2. Joel DURRETT b: 1746 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
3. Jane DURRETT b: 1747
4. Mary DURRETT b: 1749 in Pittsylvania, West Virginia, United States
5. Dorothy DURRETT b: 1750 in Virginia, United States
6. Francis DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline Co., VA, USA
7. Thomas DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
8. Ann DURRETT b: 1752
9. Rebecca DURRETT b: 1754
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Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River. He is said to have requested that his two sons, who were executors of his will, have a stone wall built around the family cemetery. After studying all these wills, family records and traditions handed down through families, it seems conclusive that Francis and Thomas Durrett were the sons of Bartholomew Durrett. The same tradition comes down to us through the descendants of Francis Durrett, which says that Francis was the son of Bartholomew Durrett.
A. Francis Durrett, born in Virginia in 1750, died in Kentucky in 1822; married Elizabeth Chewing in 1775; was with General George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Campaign in 1778-79. He settled in Henry County, Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. He was the father of four sons:
Francis, Jr. married in Kentucky and moved to Florence, Alabama. He served as a member of the legislature from Lauderdale County in 1827, 1828 and 1829. (This was the two terms 1827-1828 and 1829-1830 when the State Capital was at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.) Soon after the death of Francis Durrett, Jr., about 1837, his son, George, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Mississippi, where he reared a family of two sons and six daughters. One son was killed in a political fight. Dr. Harry S. Durrett, his other son, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Pennsylvania, where he afterward made his home.
George.
Josiah.
Daughter
Daughter
6. William Durrett; made Louisville, Kentucky, his home. He had two sons, Col. Reuben T. Durrett, a prominent lawyer and Dr. Robert Durrett, who were founders of the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky. This club has one of the finest libraries in the United States. We have no record of what became of George and Josiah, the second and third sons of Francis Durrett of Henry county, Kentucky, nor any record of what became of his daughters.
B. Thomas Durrett, born in Virginia, died before 1799 in Newberry County, S. C.; son of Bartholomew Durrett; married in Virginia to Agnes Goree, b. March 10, 1730 in Virginia, daughter of Daniel Goree, of Powhatan county, Virginia. They moved to Newberry County (old 96th district), South Carolina.
That Thomas Durrett was the son of Bartholomew Durrett is substantiated by a letter from Rev. John Durrett of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, dated September 6, 1945, to Col. Wm. T. Carpenter of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; quote: “I believe that Thomas Durrett was a son of Bartholomew Durrett, one of the original Durretts, who died in Hanover County, Virginia, about 1766.”
From the record of Newberry County, South Carolina, we find the following:
Thomas and Agnes Durrett had four children born in Virginia, and who went to South Carolina with their parents. They were:
1. Benjamin Durrett, born December 4, 1769, in Virginia, died May 19, 1827 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; married Margaret Hogg, daughter of John and Margaret Hogg, who was born in 1769 in Newberry County South Carolina , and who died May 28, 1839.
2. Lucy Durrett, born 1771, in Virginia; married before 1799 to Edmund Rice. No further data.
3. William Durrett, b. 1773, married Miss Bostner, lived in Newberry County S.C. He moved to Randolph County. They had the following children:
(a) Thomas
(b) Benjamin
(c) Greenwood
(d) Luraney, Married C. M. Tindall May 6, 1841; no children
(e) Leonard (Mack), m. Lucinda Boatner July 23, 1851. One child:
1. Sallie, m. James Jones, son of Frank Jones and grandson of Jolly Jones, a pioneer. They had one girl, who married Emmett Herndon.
4. Francis Durrett, who was not of age at the death of his father (about 1796), had three years of schooling charged to the accounts of his father's estate. He moved to Georgia and later to Randolph County, Alabama, about the time that his brother, Benjamin, above, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1819). Francis Durrett married Penelope Cox in South Carolina, and moved to Randolph County, Alabama. They are credited with having twenty-three children born; twenty-one of them lived to be grown. We do know that these families were a large part of the population of Cleberne and Randolph Counties about 1850. Children of record are:
(a) Andrew, d. in Texas
(b) Thomas, d. in Alabama
(c) Francis, moved to Mississippi
(d) Nelly
(e) Nancy
(f) David
(g) Benjamin
(h) William, d. in Alabama
(I) Daniel
(j) Sall;
(k) Polly
(l) John, d. in Civil War
(j) James, b. CA 1818 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala.; m. Martha Ross, b. CA 1822 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala. Children of record listed in the 1850 Census of Randolph County, Ala., were:
1. Mary, age 8
2. Reuben, age 6, b. 1842, d. 1927.
3. Sarah, age 5
4. George, age 4
5. Nancy, age 3
6. Julia, age 2; married John Tanner Pirkle.
7. Cora Penelope, b. April 6, 1845, d. Sept. 1, 1915; m. Dec. 21, 1885 to George Mandeville Pirkle, who was b. Feb. 18, 1860, d. Sept. 13, 1928 at Radburne, Ala. He was the son of Jacob Floyd Pirkle and Nancy Alewine, who was the daughter of Reuben and Priscilla Buchanan Alewine of Randolph County, Ala.
After Thomas Durrett died, about 1796, his wife, Agnes Goree Durrett, married before 1799 to Lt. James Kelly, a Revolutionary War soldier. There are three sons of record from this union. She administered on her husband's estate and signed several papers conveying land to different people.
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Bartholomew in Virginia
Bartholomew by some research was born in France, was a Hugenot, fled France to England, as many Hugenots did, then came to Virginia.
According to a Col. Finnell Book, Bartholomew Durrett obtained 268 acres of land February 9, 1737, on the south side of the Rapidan River, in the fork of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River (this was his home place), in Hanover County (now Orange County), paying for same thirty shillings. During the same year, 1737, he also patented 3,000 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
In 1738, his brother, Richard Durrett, patented 300 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
During 1744 Orange was formed from Spotsylvania County. Culpeper County was later formed from Orange.
The wills of John and Richard Durrett are of record in the court house of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Both of these wills mention the names of all their children and the executors of their wills. Neither John nor Richard had sons nemed Thomas or Francis. Richard Durrett made his will July 28th, 1767. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 4th 1769. John Durrett made his will February 16th, 1771. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 30th, 1773.
The records of Hanover County, Virginia, having been destroyed during the Civil War, the record of Bartholomew Durrett's will is not available; but, from notes kept by the family and passed on from one generation to another, we get the following information.
Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River.
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Betty Durrett)
Name: Bartholomew DURRETT
Birth: 1716 in England
Death: Age: 42, 1766 in Priddys Creek, Virginia, United States
Father: John William DURRETT b: abt 1680 in England
Mother: Elizabeth TYCE b: in England
Marriage 1 Mary VANHOOK b: 1729 in Virginia, United States
Married: 1740 in Virginia, United States
Children
1. Captain William Simms DURRETT b: 1742 in Virginia, United States
2. Joel DURRETT b: 1746 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
3. Jane DURRETT b: 1747
4. Mary DURRETT b: 1749 in Pittsylvania, West Virginia, United States
5. Dorothy DURRETT b: 1750 in Virginia, United States
6. Francis DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline Co., VA, USA
7. Thomas DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
8. Ann DURRETT b: 1752
9. Rebecca DURRETT b: 1754
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Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River. He is said to have requested that his two sons, who were executors of his will, have a stone wall built around the family cemetery. After studying all these wills, family records and traditions handed down through families, it seems conclusive that Francis and Thomas Durrett were the sons of Bartholomew Durrett. The same tradition comes down to us through the descendants of Francis Durrett, which says that Francis was the son of Bartholomew Durrett.
A. Francis Durrett, born in Virginia in 1750, died in Kentucky in 1822; married Elizabeth Chewing in 1775; was with General George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Campaign in 1778-79. He settled in Henry County, Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. He was the father of four sons:
Francis, Jr. married in Kentucky and moved to Florence, Alabama. He served as a member of the legislature from Lauderdale County in 1827, 1828 and 1829. (This was the two terms 1827-1828 and 1829-1830 when the State Capital was at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.) Soon after the death of Francis Durrett, Jr., about 1837, his son, George, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Mississippi, where he reared a family of two sons and six daughters. One son was killed in a political fight. Dr. Harry S. Durrett, his other son, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Pennsylvania, where he afterward made his home.
George.
Josiah.
Daughter
Daughter
6. William Durrett; made Louisville, Kentucky, his home. He had two sons, Col. Reuben T. Durrett, a prominent lawyer and Dr. Robert Durrett, who were founders of the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky. This club has one of the finest libraries in the United States. We have no record of what became of George and Josiah, the second and third sons of Francis Durrett of Henry county, Kentucky, nor any record of what became of his daughters.
B. Thomas Durrett, born in Virginia, died before 1799 in Newberry County, S. C.; son of Bartholomew Durrett; married in Virginia to Agnes Goree, b. March 10, 1730 in Virginia, daughter of Daniel Goree, of Powhatan county, Virginia. They moved to Newberry County (old 96th district), South Carolina.
That Thomas Durrett was the son of Bartholomew Durrett is substantiated by a letter from Rev. John Durrett of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, dated September 6, 1945, to Col. Wm. T. Carpenter of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; quote: “I believe that Thomas Durrett was a son of Bartholomew Durrett, one of the original Durretts, who died in Hanover County, Virginia, about 1766.”
From the record of Newberry County, South Carolina, we find the following:
Thomas and Agnes Durrett had four children born in Virginia, and who went to South Carolina with their parents. They were:
1. Benjamin Durrett, born December 4, 1769, in Virginia, died May 19, 1827 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; married Margaret Hogg, daughter of John and Margaret Hogg, who was born in 1769 in Newberry County South Carolina , and who died May 28, 1839.
2. Lucy Durrett, born 1771, in Virginia; married before 1799 to Edmund Rice. No further data.
3. William Durrett, b. 1773, married Miss Bostner, lived in Newberry County S.C. He moved to Randolph County. They had the following children:
(a) Thomas
(b) Benjamin
(c) Greenwood
(d) Luraney, Married C. M. Tindall May 6, 1841; no children
(e) Leonard (Mack), m. Lucinda Boatner July 23, 1851. One child:
1. Sallie, m. James Jones, son of Frank Jones and grandson of Jolly Jones, a pioneer. They had one girl, who married Emmett Herndon.
4. Francis Durrett, who was not of age at the death of his father (about 1796), had three years of schooling charged to the accounts of his father's estate. He moved to Georgia and later to Randolph County, Alabama, about the time that his brother, Benjamin, above, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1819). Francis Durrett married Penelope Cox in South Carolina, and moved to Randolph County, Alabama. They are credited with having twenty-three children born; twenty-one of them lived to be grown. We do know that these families were a large part of the population of Cleberne and Randolph Counties about 1850. Children of record are:
(a) Andrew, d. in Texas
(b) Thomas, d. in Alabama
(c) Francis, moved to Mississippi
(d) Nelly
(e) Nancy
(f) David
(g) Benjamin
(h) William, d. in Alabama
(I) Daniel
(j) Sall;
(k) Polly
(l) John, d. in Civil War
(j) James, b. CA 1818 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala.; m. Martha Ross, b. CA 1822 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala. Children of record listed in the 1850 Census of Randolph County, Ala., were:
1. Mary, age 8
2. Reuben, age 6, b. 1842, d. 1927.
3. Sarah, age 5
4. George, age 4
5. Nancy, age 3
6. Julia, age 2; married John Tanner Pirkle.
7. Cora Penelope, b. April 6, 1845, d. Sept. 1, 1915; m. Dec. 21, 1885 to George Mandeville Pirkle, who was b. Feb. 18, 1860, d. Sept. 13, 1928 at Radburne, Ala. He was the son of Jacob Floyd Pirkle and Nancy Alewine, who was the daughter of Reuben and Priscilla Buchanan Alewine of Randolph County, Ala.
After Thomas Durrett died, about 1796, his wife, Agnes Goree Durrett, married before 1799 to Lt. James Kelly, a Revolutionary War soldier. There are three sons of record from this union. She administered on her husband's estate and signed several papers conveying land to different people.
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Bartholomew in Virginia
Bartholomew by some research was born in France, was a Hugenot, fled France to England, as many Hugenots did, then came to Virginia.
According to a Col. Finnell Book, Bartholomew Durrett obtained 268 acres of land February 9, 1737, on the south side of the Rapidan River, in the fork of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River (this was his home place), in Hanover County (now Orange County), paying for same thirty shillings. During the same year, 1737, he also patented 3,000 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
In 1738, his brother, Richard Durrett, patented 300 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
During 1744 Orange was formed from Spotsylvania County. Culpeper County was later formed from Orange.
The wills of John and Richard Durrett are of record in the court house of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Both of these wills mention the names of all their children and the executors of their wills. Neither John nor Richard had sons nemed Thomas or Francis. Richard Durrett made his will July 28th, 1767. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 4th 1769. John Durrett made his will February 16th, 1771. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 30th, 1773.
The records of Hanover County, Virginia, having been destroyed during the Civil War, the record of Bartholomew Durrett's will is not available; but, from notes kept by the family and passed on from one generation to another, we get the following information.
Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brown2014&id=I1340
(**Note: The following information in this "Bio" section was furnished by earlier contributors to this memorial. I have not yet researched and verified any of this information. I am leaving it here for now, but have found several discrepancies in our information. For example, there are three children listed as born in the same year 1750, which is highly unlikely. I will edit it as I verify it. I am starting in Kentucky and then will research in Virginia, working my way back. I intended to add the memorial after finding more accurate information.
Betty Durrett)
Name: Bartholomew DURRETT
Birth: 1716 in England
Death: Age: 42, 1766 in Priddys Creek, Virginia, United States
Father: John William DURRETT b: abt 1680 in England
Mother: Elizabeth TYCE b: in England
Marriage 1 Mary VANHOOK b: 1729 in Virginia, United States
Married: 1740 in Virginia, United States
Children
1. Captain William Simms DURRETT b: 1742 in Virginia, United States
2. Joel DURRETT b: 1746 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
3. Jane DURRETT b: 1747
4. Mary DURRETT b: 1749 in Pittsylvania, West Virginia, United States
5. Dorothy DURRETT b: 1750 in Virginia, United States
6. Francis DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline Co., VA, USA
7. Thomas DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
8. Ann DURRETT b: 1752
9. Rebecca DURRETT b: 1754
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Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River. He is said to have requested that his two sons, who were executors of his will, have a stone wall built around the family cemetery. After studying all these wills, family records and traditions handed down through families, it seems conclusive that Francis and Thomas Durrett were the sons of Bartholomew Durrett. The same tradition comes down to us through the descendants of Francis Durrett, which says that Francis was the son of Bartholomew Durrett.
A. Francis Durrett, born in Virginia in 1750, died in Kentucky in 1822; married Elizabeth Chewing in 1775; was with General George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Campaign in 1778-79. He settled in Henry County, Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. He was the father of four sons:
Francis, Jr. married in Kentucky and moved to Florence, Alabama. He served as a member of the legislature from Lauderdale County in 1827, 1828 and 1829. (This was the two terms 1827-1828 and 1829-1830 when the State Capital was at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.) Soon after the death of Francis Durrett, Jr., about 1837, his son, George, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Mississippi, where he reared a family of two sons and six daughters. One son was killed in a political fight. Dr. Harry S. Durrett, his other son, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Pennsylvania, where he afterward made his home.
George.
Josiah.
Daughter
Daughter
6. William Durrett; made Louisville, Kentucky, his home. He had two sons, Col. Reuben T. Durrett, a prominent lawyer and Dr. Robert Durrett, who were founders of the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky. This club has one of the finest libraries in the United States. We have no record of what became of George and Josiah, the second and third sons of Francis Durrett of Henry county, Kentucky, nor any record of what became of his daughters.
B. Thomas Durrett, born in Virginia, died before 1799 in Newberry County, S. C.; son of Bartholomew Durrett; married in Virginia to Agnes Goree, b. March 10, 1730 in Virginia, daughter of Daniel Goree, of Powhatan county, Virginia. They moved to Newberry County (old 96th district), South Carolina.
That Thomas Durrett was the son of Bartholomew Durrett is substantiated by a letter from Rev. John Durrett of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, dated September 6, 1945, to Col. Wm. T. Carpenter of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; quote: “I believe that Thomas Durrett was a son of Bartholomew Durrett, one of the original Durretts, who died in Hanover County, Virginia, about 1766.”
From the record of Newberry County, South Carolina, we find the following:
Thomas and Agnes Durrett had four children born in Virginia, and who went to South Carolina with their parents. They were:
1. Benjamin Durrett, born December 4, 1769, in Virginia, died May 19, 1827 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; married Margaret Hogg, daughter of John and Margaret Hogg, who was born in 1769 in Newberry County South Carolina , and who died May 28, 1839.
2. Lucy Durrett, born 1771, in Virginia; married before 1799 to Edmund Rice. No further data.
3. William Durrett, b. 1773, married Miss Bostner, lived in Newberry County S.C. He moved to Randolph County. They had the following children:
(a) Thomas
(b) Benjamin
(c) Greenwood
(d) Luraney, Married C. M. Tindall May 6, 1841; no children
(e) Leonard (Mack), m. Lucinda Boatner July 23, 1851. One child:
1. Sallie, m. James Jones, son of Frank Jones and grandson of Jolly Jones, a pioneer. They had one girl, who married Emmett Herndon.
4. Francis Durrett, who was not of age at the death of his father (about 1796), had three years of schooling charged to the accounts of his father's estate. He moved to Georgia and later to Randolph County, Alabama, about the time that his brother, Benjamin, above, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1819). Francis Durrett married Penelope Cox in South Carolina, and moved to Randolph County, Alabama. They are credited with having twenty-three children born; twenty-one of them lived to be grown. We do know that these families were a large part of the population of Cleberne and Randolph Counties about 1850. Children of record are:
(a) Andrew, d. in Texas
(b) Thomas, d. in Alabama
(c) Francis, moved to Mississippi
(d) Nelly
(e) Nancy
(f) David
(g) Benjamin
(h) William, d. in Alabama
(I) Daniel
(j) Sall;
(k) Polly
(l) John, d. in Civil War
(j) James, b. CA 1818 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala.; m. Martha Ross, b. CA 1822 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala. Children of record listed in the 1850 Census of Randolph County, Ala., were:
1. Mary, age 8
2. Reuben, age 6, b. 1842, d. 1927.
3. Sarah, age 5
4. George, age 4
5. Nancy, age 3
6. Julia, age 2; married John Tanner Pirkle.
7. Cora Penelope, b. April 6, 1845, d. Sept. 1, 1915; m. Dec. 21, 1885 to George Mandeville Pirkle, who was b. Feb. 18, 1860, d. Sept. 13, 1928 at Radburne, Ala. He was the son of Jacob Floyd Pirkle and Nancy Alewine, who was the daughter of Reuben and Priscilla Buchanan Alewine of Randolph County, Ala.
After Thomas Durrett died, about 1796, his wife, Agnes Goree Durrett, married before 1799 to Lt. James Kelly, a Revolutionary War soldier. There are three sons of record from this union. She administered on her husband's estate and signed several papers conveying land to different people.
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Bartholomew in Virginia
Bartholomew by some research was born in France, was a Hugenot, fled France to England, as many Hugenots did, then came to Virginia.
According to a Col. Finnell Book, Bartholomew Durrett obtained 268 acres of land February 9, 1737, on the south side of the Rapidan River, in the fork of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River (this was his home place), in Hanover County (now Orange County), paying for same thirty shillings. During the same year, 1737, he also patented 3,000 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
In 1738, his brother, Richard Durrett, patented 300 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
During 1744 Orange was formed from Spotsylvania County. Culpeper County was later formed from Orange.
The wills of John and Richard Durrett are of record in the court house of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Both of these wills mention the names of all their children and the executors of their wills. Neither John nor Richard had sons nemed Thomas or Francis. Richard Durrett made his will July 28th, 1767. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 4th 1769. John Durrett made his will February 16th, 1771. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 30th, 1773.
The records of Hanover County, Virginia, having been destroyed during the Civil War, the record of Bartholomew Durrett's will is not available; but, from notes kept by the family and passed on from one generation to another, we get the following information.
Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brown2014&id=I1340
Betty Durrett)
Name: Bartholomew DURRETT
Birth: 1716 in England
Death: Age: 42, 1766 in Priddys Creek, Virginia, United States
Father: John William DURRETT b: abt 1680 in England
Mother: Elizabeth TYCE b: in England
Marriage 1 Mary VANHOOK b: 1729 in Virginia, United States
Married: 1740 in Virginia, United States
Children
1. Captain William Simms DURRETT b: 1742 in Virginia, United States
2. Joel DURRETT b: 1746 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
3. Jane DURRETT b: 1747
4. Mary DURRETT b: 1749 in Pittsylvania, West Virginia, United States
5. Dorothy DURRETT b: 1750 in Virginia, United States
6. Francis DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline Co., VA, USA
7. Thomas DURRETT b: 1750 in Caroline, Virginia, United States
8. Ann DURRETT b: 1752
9. Rebecca DURRETT b: 1754
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Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River. He is said to have requested that his two sons, who were executors of his will, have a stone wall built around the family cemetery. After studying all these wills, family records and traditions handed down through families, it seems conclusive that Francis and Thomas Durrett were the sons of Bartholomew Durrett. The same tradition comes down to us through the descendants of Francis Durrett, which says that Francis was the son of Bartholomew Durrett.
A. Francis Durrett, born in Virginia in 1750, died in Kentucky in 1822; married Elizabeth Chewing in 1775; was with General George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Campaign in 1778-79. He settled in Henry County, Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. He was the father of four sons:
Francis, Jr. married in Kentucky and moved to Florence, Alabama. He served as a member of the legislature from Lauderdale County in 1827, 1828 and 1829. (This was the two terms 1827-1828 and 1829-1830 when the State Capital was at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.) Soon after the death of Francis Durrett, Jr., about 1837, his son, George, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Mississippi, where he reared a family of two sons and six daughters. One son was killed in a political fight. Dr. Harry S. Durrett, his other son, moved from Florence, Alabama, to Pennsylvania, where he afterward made his home.
George.
Josiah.
Daughter
Daughter
6. William Durrett; made Louisville, Kentucky, his home. He had two sons, Col. Reuben T. Durrett, a prominent lawyer and Dr. Robert Durrett, who were founders of the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky. This club has one of the finest libraries in the United States. We have no record of what became of George and Josiah, the second and third sons of Francis Durrett of Henry county, Kentucky, nor any record of what became of his daughters.
B. Thomas Durrett, born in Virginia, died before 1799 in Newberry County, S. C.; son of Bartholomew Durrett; married in Virginia to Agnes Goree, b. March 10, 1730 in Virginia, daughter of Daniel Goree, of Powhatan county, Virginia. They moved to Newberry County (old 96th district), South Carolina.
That Thomas Durrett was the son of Bartholomew Durrett is substantiated by a letter from Rev. John Durrett of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, dated September 6, 1945, to Col. Wm. T. Carpenter of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; quote: “I believe that Thomas Durrett was a son of Bartholomew Durrett, one of the original Durretts, who died in Hanover County, Virginia, about 1766.”
From the record of Newberry County, South Carolina, we find the following:
Thomas and Agnes Durrett had four children born in Virginia, and who went to South Carolina with their parents. They were:
1. Benjamin Durrett, born December 4, 1769, in Virginia, died May 19, 1827 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; married Margaret Hogg, daughter of John and Margaret Hogg, who was born in 1769 in Newberry County South Carolina , and who died May 28, 1839.
2. Lucy Durrett, born 1771, in Virginia; married before 1799 to Edmund Rice. No further data.
3. William Durrett, b. 1773, married Miss Bostner, lived in Newberry County S.C. He moved to Randolph County. They had the following children:
(a) Thomas
(b) Benjamin
(c) Greenwood
(d) Luraney, Married C. M. Tindall May 6, 1841; no children
(e) Leonard (Mack), m. Lucinda Boatner July 23, 1851. One child:
1. Sallie, m. James Jones, son of Frank Jones and grandson of Jolly Jones, a pioneer. They had one girl, who married Emmett Herndon.
4. Francis Durrett, who was not of age at the death of his father (about 1796), had three years of schooling charged to the accounts of his father's estate. He moved to Georgia and later to Randolph County, Alabama, about the time that his brother, Benjamin, above, moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1819). Francis Durrett married Penelope Cox in South Carolina, and moved to Randolph County, Alabama. They are credited with having twenty-three children born; twenty-one of them lived to be grown. We do know that these families were a large part of the population of Cleberne and Randolph Counties about 1850. Children of record are:
(a) Andrew, d. in Texas
(b) Thomas, d. in Alabama
(c) Francis, moved to Mississippi
(d) Nelly
(e) Nancy
(f) David
(g) Benjamin
(h) William, d. in Alabama
(I) Daniel
(j) Sall;
(k) Polly
(l) John, d. in Civil War
(j) James, b. CA 1818 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala.; m. Martha Ross, b. CA 1822 in Georgia, d. in Cleberne County, Ala. Children of record listed in the 1850 Census of Randolph County, Ala., were:
1. Mary, age 8
2. Reuben, age 6, b. 1842, d. 1927.
3. Sarah, age 5
4. George, age 4
5. Nancy, age 3
6. Julia, age 2; married John Tanner Pirkle.
7. Cora Penelope, b. April 6, 1845, d. Sept. 1, 1915; m. Dec. 21, 1885 to George Mandeville Pirkle, who was b. Feb. 18, 1860, d. Sept. 13, 1928 at Radburne, Ala. He was the son of Jacob Floyd Pirkle and Nancy Alewine, who was the daughter of Reuben and Priscilla Buchanan Alewine of Randolph County, Ala.
After Thomas Durrett died, about 1796, his wife, Agnes Goree Durrett, married before 1799 to Lt. James Kelly, a Revolutionary War soldier. There are three sons of record from this union. She administered on her husband's estate and signed several papers conveying land to different people.
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Bartholomew in Virginia
Bartholomew by some research was born in France, was a Hugenot, fled France to England, as many Hugenots did, then came to Virginia.
According to a Col. Finnell Book, Bartholomew Durrett obtained 268 acres of land February 9, 1737, on the south side of the Rapidan River, in the fork of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River (this was his home place), in Hanover County (now Orange County), paying for same thirty shillings. During the same year, 1737, he also patented 3,000 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
In 1738, his brother, Richard Durrett, patented 300 acres of land on Priddy's Creek in Hanover County, Virginia.
During 1744 Orange was formed from Spotsylvania County. Culpeper County was later formed from Orange.
The wills of John and Richard Durrett are of record in the court house of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Both of these wills mention the names of all their children and the executors of their wills. Neither John nor Richard had sons nemed Thomas or Francis. Richard Durrett made his will July 28th, 1767. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 4th 1769. John Durrett made his will February 16th, 1771. It was filed and proved in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, July 30th, 1773.
The records of Hanover County, Virginia, having been destroyed during the Civil War, the record of Bartholomew Durrett's will is not available; but, from notes kept by the family and passed on from one generation to another, we get the following information.
Bartholomew Durrett died on his farm about 1765, in the forks of Priddy's Creek and the Rapidan River.
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