---------39b35d4618e7cbf839b35d4618e7cbf8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline The Durfee family has its early roots in Freetown and Fall River Mass. Almost every prominent building (high school, theatre, banks, etc) are named after Durfees. Durfee men were leaders in Revolutionary War...There is considerable history about this family and the part they played in Colonial America Colonel Frank Chace USMC (Ret) ---------39b35d4618e7cbf839b35d4618e7cbf8 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Forwarded Msg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Forwarded Msg" Content-Description: Forwarded Msg Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.37]) by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v89.10) with ESMTP id MAILINYC21-1002040853; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 04:08:53 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v89.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYC59-1002040829; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 04:08:29 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id g9288JQo006347; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:08:19 -0600 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Oct 2 02:08:19 2002 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Barb and Don" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:04:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2002 08:06:59.0750 (UTC) FILETIME=[AEE80460:01C269EA] Subject: [CHASE-L] Chase & Durfee/Coffin To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/4872 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Hi Everyone, If anyone is related to the Durfees below, I found a Durfee Cemetery in Palmyra, NY ( think it's Wayne Co.). No names are familiar to me, but I wouldn't recognize them anyway. I can send the link if anyone wants it. 1828 Quaker Census shows many Durfees in Palmyra which I already knew..... Some of you were able to find info for me in the Chatham Quaker MM, which INCLUDED Mehitbale Thurston, Benj5's 2nd w. fr. whom I am descended, as dying New Britain......(Chatham or Col. Co. ) 6/10/1816. age 75 yrs., dt. of Jonathan & Lydia SOOOOOO, CAN'T SOMEONE get into these records again to see what it says abt. Elizabeth (Durfee) Chase who d. 1776,..... ( she was dt. of Job & Elizabeth (Chase) Durfee) & Benj. 5) who d. 20 Mar. 1826. He may be under the Williamson/Farmington Quaker MM records, as son Benj and wife Lydia are found in 1828 NY Quaker Census as being at that Farmington meeting in 1828. & Benj 6) of Benj. Chas Jr. as referred to in Chatham MMs, d. 1867, what date, and where???, might even be Roch as there was a meeting hs. in E. Henrietta , Monroe Co.,NY or else under Farmington, Ontario Co. NY or Sodus which was Ontario Co. then, but is now Wayne Co and 2nd w. Lydia Macy, d. 7 Oct 1866, dt. of Simeon Macy & Lucretia Barnard.but where???, this could be E. Hen. MONROE, NY too if not Farm or Sodus.... Benj6)'s 1st w. fr. whom I am descended, Phebe Barnard Macy Chase....Phebe Chase or Phebe Macy Chase, d.Feb. 23, 1818, so she MUST be listed in the CHATHAM MM. Phebe is dt. of Reuben Barnard & & Phebe Coleman of Deruyter, NY. ALL THIS INFO IS IN NY State!!!!! Bottom line is that they MUST be listed as dying in either the Chatham, or Williamson/Farmington or Henrietta (Roch.) Quaker meetings. And it tells where they dies as w/Mehitable Chase above. Don't know if I'm EVER going to find where they are buried....but that's another story...........! The Roch Quaker Cem in Hen. has no markers and no records.........lol. I see that some of the early Wayne records aren't ever going to be FOUND either,( I looked thru all the Wayne & Ontario Co. Cemeteries)........ as part of the old cemetery fell into Lake Ontario.,,,,,,,,,,,which I guess is fitting, since I grew up on L. Ontario in the summers as a girl and wishhhh I still lived on the LAKE..........We have a boat now..........but NOT THE SAME........! Was GREAT............!!!!!! Only live a mile away now......... This book , Ghosts in Residence, telling abt. Mary Chase granddaughter of Ben5), being the ghost of the Old Chase Farm in Chatham mentions there is a sunken lot fenced in stone, abt 18 x 25 ft, covered by myrtle,only a few hundred yds. w. of the house, and I imagine that this is where some of these are buried. Only marker to be discerned is that of Mary Chase. She apparently was a published poet. Died of TB at age 33. Mentions her mother, Mehitable Thurston came fr. seafaring family in Nantucket. Father was old sea captain. States abt turn of the century..think it means abt 1800, what is now called the Grogan place, was bought fr. Wm. Brown, by a Wm. Coffin, a Quaker from Nantucket. He'd been a sea captain & at end of his last yoyage he had traded a rich cargo of sealskins in NEw York that brought a tidy profit. Ready to leave the sea and settle down on a farm, he had joined his Quaker friends in the Rayville settlement (then know as Greenbrook or Quakertown) & bought the place which his family farmed for generations. In 1880, the Grogan fam. took it over. The Old Chase Farm was an old colonial central hall farmhouse w/100 acres in the foothills of the Berkshires.On a clear day overlooking undulating farmlands and woods and on a clear day, had a beautiful view exending 60 or 70 mi. to the west over the Hudson Valley to the skyline of the majestic Catskill mtns. Place extremely hard to find.........go over 7 bridges, etc....on 7 Bridges Rd.w/curves etc. He learned that over 100 yrs ago it had been a Quaker boarding sch. There had been additonal bldgs, now completely gone with barely a few foundatin marks in evidence. The school had been conducted by Cornelius Thurston Chase. The entire vicinity has been a Friends Settlement & their meeting hs., built 1777, was located less than a mile w. of the boundary line. Still Standing & used as a farm grainery. Much more run down than Chase Farm house. His search revealed that a young teacher, Phineas Gurley, who was later to be come Abraham Lincoln's minister, and who sat at the bedside of the dying president and preached the funeral sermon, had once taught there. He found at the NY City library a book of poems by Mary Mehitable Chase, pub. by Ticknor & Fields, Longfellow's publishers, in 1854. Besides her poems, the book contained many long letter written by her to friends. They described in great detail the life in her Quaker household, written in her sensitive and poetic style. It told much about the people who came to visit there. It also described Christmas celebrations & told of nearby neighbors, their African woman servants )Friends had no slaves), her observations of nature, farm animals and pets, climatic conditons. How very much she had loved home. Her last wish had been to be buried on the nearby hillside slope under her favorite aple tree, the old arm tree, so called because of its extraordinary branch.! ....... this is where he finds the burial ground above. There are before and after pics of both the house and the meeting house. Both look really beautiful now..........or when this book was written .......1902. Mary was/is???? a "NICE" ghost.....! Foreward states: Now it is time to enjoy these accounts for yourself. They follow on a long line of tales on the supernaturals, most of which have come out of Columbia Co. for centuries. Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow derives from people and events in and around the nearby village of Kinderhook------ it tells abt. this.....Ichabod Crane & the headless horseman, etc.------- (my Carpenters are fr. there). Louis Jones' Things That Go Bump in the Night contains other memorable Columbia Co stories, etc. Roderick H. Blackburn, PhD Albany Institute of History and Art Very Interesting...........and I see there is more on Mary, her dad and her life that I overlooked. HOPE SOMEONE CAN FIND SOME INFO FOR ME!!!! I"D REALLY APPRECCIATE IT................!!!!!! Barb ---------39b35d4618e7cbf839b35d4618e7cbf8--