I'm not about to start a Durkee family tree, but does someone have the descendancy from the immigrant (Phineas) down to Amasa Durkee, b.c. 1812 in Yarmouth? Wright's book says Phineas was in Yarmouth by 1762, so there should only be a one or two generation gap. I understand the Durkees and Killams of Yarmouth were like the Morans and Vaughans of St. Martins, N.B. All were involved with shipping and international trade. The two families in St. Martins built ships, owned them, sailed them and had a large trading company. In a village that sent out 500 ships to sail the seven seas, the Morans built more than any other family. These Yarmouth & St. Martins families were married by trade and when three of the Vaughan boys married Yarmouth girls, the families were merged, cementing them together as partners. The Vaughans had a trading company in Liverpool, England, and I found some of them living there in Toxteth Park. Also living there in 1881 (census) was the Amasa Durkee family. His daughter, Amelia, m. in Liverpool on 6 Sep., 1870 to LeBaron Vaughan. *DURKEE* -Esther Clark Wright, "Planters and Pioneers: Nova Scotia, 1749-1775," (Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1978), p. 101. DURKEE, PHINEAS ...............................YARMOUTH, 1762 tanner, b. 16 Sept. 1730, son of Stephen and Lois Moulton Durkee, Brimfield, Mass., d. 5 Nov. 1801. m. 1751, Phebe Pearl. Ch: Lois, Amasa, Olive, Eleanor, John, Phineas, Robert, Stephen, Pearl, Elizabeth, Hannah. -1881 Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England, 39 Berkley St, Family History Library Film 1341870, Public Records Office Reference RG11, Piece / Folio 3635 / 88, p. 5. Amasa DURKEE Head M Male 69 Canada Ship Owner (...) Georgina DURKEE Wife M Female 53 Canada George DURKEE Son M Male 40 Canada Broker Or Agent Mary MALLIN Serv U Female 27 Liverpool Domestic Servant Bill