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OUR DURYEA and TURNER LINE S by Rhea Duryea Johnson Library of Congress Catalog Card Numbar1 59-11119 In loving memory of my brother 11 11 M. J, ( Jerry ) Duryea 11 a gentle giant 11 CONTENTS Foreword Our Duryea Line 5 Our Turner Line 20 Notes 27 Index 87 Illustrations 1 Duryea coat-of-arms 7 Joost Durie u home 10 Charles E. Duryea 19 11 11 M. J. ( Jerry ) Duryea 19 Turner coat-of-arms 20 James Turner home 25 Johannes Schenk seals 35 Old car silhouette - Charles E. Duryea 50 Duryea 11 Motor Wagon 11 - 1892 51 Winner of America's first automobile race - 1895 51 Old car silhouette - Rhea Duryea 58 America's first automobile catalog 61-62 FOREWOnD "We cannot live in the past, but the rich heritage of the past can help us to live in the present. 11 When returning to college in the Fall of 1905, an unknown fellow traveller showed me a gift for his daughter. It was a signet ring with hie family coat of-arme. My first visit to the college library resulted in my finding the Duryea coat-of-arms, and that ended my interest in family history. During an automobile show in New York in 1909, Mrs. Randolph Bryan Grinnan (Martha Estelle Duryea) called at the Duryea exhibit and asked to speak to some one of the Duryeas. I happened to be there, and she instilled in me a determi nation to learn more about our ancestors, and we had a etimuiating correspond ence for a few years, but I loot interest when there seemed to be too many "dead ends" in the search. In 1939, shortly after my father's death, M.i.ss Ruth M. Duryee wrote to my brother to inquire about our Duryea lineage. She and I had a voluminou£ and friendly exchange of letters, and we becam~ devo~ed "cousins" (seventh, once removed). It ic impossible to express my indebtedness to her for her infor mation on the early Duryea$ and Duryees; for her encouragement during the past twenty years; and for her interest in reading this manuscript (Note 70). In spite of discouraging results in the Duryea search, I succeeded in com 11 11 11 11 pleting manuscripts on The Steer F1:1,mily and The Shryock L1ne ; and now I am convinced that the Duryea line is correct. In this manuscript I have included my father's mother's Turner line. No attempt was made to collect data more recent than my generation, since the members of the younger generations prefer that their dates be omitted from publications. In the text I have attempted to keep the actual lines as brief ae possible. The notes are numerous; some are voluminous; not all of them are dull! I have repeated some data from previous manusc:ripts in an effort to have a record of all of our known ancestors in one volume. Old wills and inventories fascinate me, and for that reason I have included many. I could not help but live in the past as I mentally travelled with our an cestors in their migrations, and I endured with them their hardships of those pioneer years. This was particularly true of our ancestor, Wesley Duryea, who like Abraham Lincoln, was born in a log cabin, in 1809, in Kentucky, and set tled in Illinois. In addition to Mrs. Grinnan (deceased) and Ruth Duryee, I am grateful to s My father's sister, Mrs. Atina (Duryea) Nielson, for the records in the birthday book of her grandmother, Sarah Ann (Carver) Turner; My father's uncle, WilliBrn Penn Turner (deceased), for his grandfather Starling Turner's Bible record; 4 My father's cousin, Mrs, Augustine (Turner) Ryan, and her daughter, Mrs. Pauline (Ryan) Anderson, for their assistance on the Turner line; My second cousin, Mrs. Louise (Duryea) Brown, for her interest end valuable help on both the Duryea and Turner lines; end especially for tombstone records. Mr. Harold T. Duryee (sixth cousin, once removed) who honored me by using 11 11 much of my materiel in his manuscript The Charles Duryee Family ; Messrs. William P. V8 nAlstyne and Edward T. Langford for professional serv ices; end other correspondents 11 ad infinitum" throughout the years. (This manuscript is my "swan song" in genealogy!) Summer 1959 (Mrs. W. Harvey Johnson) Duryee Cottage Cornwell, Lebanon County Pennsylvania "Such is the stock from which I spring. 11 (from the play 11 Pseudolus 11 written 191 B. C. by Titus Maccius Palutos who died about 184 B. C.) 0 U R DlJl:i:YEA L I I'J E In order to get the back~round of the Duryoas, I shall quote from a few sources. Louis P. DeBoer in October 1959 ,1rote me that& 11 The DuRieux fe:nily is of \'/alloon origin. 'I'ho ':lelloons or 3uallons were Gaulee, the race of Celts to which also the early Britons belonged, who by the Saxons were called 1 3uels 1 , or Welsh. Continental Gaul was, according to the distribution of its tribes (long before Julius Caesar's time) divided into three perts, of which the Northmost part was inhabit.ed by the Belgae. These Belgae are the direct ancestors of those Gauls, who by their Ger manic neighbors, the Dutch (i.e., Franke, Saxons and Frisians) were called 1 1:faelech' or 1:falloon. Up till about two centuries B. C, the mouth of the Rhine and the :-1euee, near Do rd rec ht Holland, was the Northern boundary of ~alloon territory. North of the Rhine mouth lived the Frisians end related tribes, About 200 B, C. a large migration of Belgae to Greet Britain took place, where they joined their brother Celts, decimated in numbers by fraternal wars. This large excursion left the shores of whet is now Hol land, Zee lend end Flanders almost un-inhe bited and waste. Only on the islands of Zeeland a considerable number of celtic Belgae remained behind. The vacant territory was soon by degrees oc- cupied by offshoots of the named Germanic tribes, who mixed with the Belgic remnants thus in time forming the Hollanders, the Flemings and the Zealanders, all speaking a Ger~enic tongue, the mother of the present Dutch end Flemish, As I Franks I these united tribesmen in the early centuries of our Christian era pushed their way further into Northern Gaul, gaining supremacy there in the Fifth Century when the Roman Empire began to crumble, and giving to conquered Gaul the name of Frankland or France. Even then the Belgae or Walloons retained their racial identity in the very sections of Southern Belgium and northern France where their direct descendants are located at present. Their Celtic or Welsh speech they had given up eo~e centuries before, under Roman domination, adopting that special popular specification of Latin as their lan guage which has survived ae French. The French of the Walloons today still contains a good many ele:r.ente of the original Celtic tongue of the Belgees •••••••••• "Among the first Walloon Proteetant students who came to Heidelberg as e group end metriculated there on August 8, 1565 •••• 1 wee 'Jacobus DuRieux ..... Galli Pictones - i.e., Walloons. 11 in 1566, often called the 1 ':fonder Year' in the history of' The Netherlands, a wave Of open resistance began to sweep over the long suppressed Netherlands. The very first city to rebel openly es a Municipality was Valenciennes in Henault - a Walloon city. Two names are of interest - Regnier DuRieux who was be- 1 1 headed for ir.nsge-breaking , ond Jacques DuRieux who wee teo:fn prisoner but maner:ed to escape, and was thue 'banished for life from the United Netherlands' on June 19, 1568. (Note l) 6 11 :,:any of the Valonciennes Celvinht refugees c1i:ma;;ed to reach some see-port and crossed to friendly Enrland. l'.eximilian Luideux was among those who settled in Norwich where e Reformed Church had been founded in which services were held alternately in Lutch and French •••••• 11 (Note 2) Williams. Pelletreau, in hie Dury~a Genealogy end Family History of New York (1907, Vol. IV, p. )25) wrote& "We learn from the oldest records thet this family was origi- nally from the old province of Burgundy in France. (Hote ? ) The name hes been spelled in various ways, as Durie, Duryee and Duryea. '!'he original form is probably DuRyer, and e ?erson acquainted with French pronunciation can readily understand the reason for the vari- ous forms in spelling. Some of the members of tbe family lived et an early date in the town of !,brcigny, and were in prominent posi tions. The religious wars and persecution in France sompelled a vast number of Protestant families to seek refuge in Holland, and one branch went to Scotland about the year 1500. "Among the e!llinent members of the Scottish branch of the fam ily were Andrew Durie, who died in 1558, and who wee bishop of Gal- loway and abbot of i~lrose. George Durie (1496-1561), abbot of Melrose. Sir Alexander Gibe on, Lord Durie, a Scottish judge, who died in 1644. John Durie, a Scottish Jesuit, died in 1587. John Durie (1537-1600), a Presbyterian ~inister of prominence. Robert Durie (1555-1616), also a minister of the same denomination. Sir Robert Bruce, of Claclemore, who had the honor of knighthood conferred upon him by King Je:ues VI of Scotland, married for his second wife Helen, daughter of Robert Durie, by whom he had one daughter who became the wife of Alexender Shaw, of Sautrie, Andrew Boswell, seventh son of Sir John 2oswell, of Belmute, had a daughter Janet who became the wife of her cousin, John Durie, of Grange.