Andrew DURAND
See Note Page S.R. Durand: [After publishing Durand Genealogy I discovered] an article in Antiques Magazine, May 1974, pp. 1147-1159, The Crown and York Chairs of Coastal Connecticut and the Work of the Durands of Milford by Benno M. Forman, Research Fellow and Teaching Associate, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. [From the article] I learned that the son of Dr. John Durand, baptized on December 17, 1702 is called a 'shop joyner' [cabinet maker] in 1745, when a debt to him was entered in Ephraim Strong's account book. That Andrew was also a turner was demonstrated when Strong noted in 1750 that he owed Durand money 'for turning two blocks for the Scrole over my door.' The article illustrates in Figs. 1 and 5 a chair in the Milford Historical Society and one in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum attributed to Andrew Durand, who was a pioneer in the design and making of heart and crown turned chairs. It refers to a bill of Andrew Durand's dated December 1, 1770 recorded in the account book of Ephraim Strong for 6 stained chairs 2:02:00. My sister Lucia (Durand) Wright, Mrs. Donald M. Wright, has in her country home a chair quite similar to Fig. 5 of the Antiques article that was undoubtedly made by our ancestor Andrew Durand. It must have come down in our family through his son, Andrew Jr., and his son Samuel and grandson Samuel Jr., who married Rebecca Root. When she came from Berlin, Connecticut to live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after her husband's death she must have brought this chair with her other furniture and eventually it was given to by her daughters, Jane and Louise, to my parents when they left Milwaukee in 1910 to live in Rochester, NY. My sister obtained it as a gift from my mother after it had been for many years in the large front hallway of our home on Lake Drive. Andrew Durand's son John, a twin of our ancestor Andrew Jr., sold large numbers of these chairs over many years in sets of half a dozen to a dozen and a half, as evidenced by his account book preserved in the Milford Historical Society. Another son of Andrew, named Samuel, was a shop joiner and turner, in Milford, too, during his lifetime, as was his son, Samuel Jr. The article in Antiques magazine includes dozens of references to their work and states that only in the Durand family and only in Milford among the towns along the Connecticut shore is there persuasive evidence of chairmaking tradition through several generations. Andrew Durand married in 1729 Jane Andrew, who was baptized April 16, 1699 in Milford and was thirty years of age at the time of her marriage. She was the youngest daughter and undoubtedly caring for her father, Rev. Samuel Andrew, after her mother's death [on Christmas Day, 1727]. Andrew and Jane (Andrew) Durand's first children were twins, our ancestor Andrew and John, born December 15, 1734. Abigail was born December 7, 1735, Samuel was baptized Feb. 5, 1738, and Jane was baptized November 23, 1740. Their home and Andrew Durand's cabinet and chairmaking shop were in Milford. Facts about this person: Record Change July 01, 1999
See Note Page S.R. Durand: During King Philip's War, Andrew Durand was in Captain Samuel Hull's company in Colonel Benjamin Hall's regiment and served for the relief of Fort William Henry and parts adjacent, [in] August [of] 1757. This company was from Wallingford and New Cheshire in Wallingford. The first two children of Andrew and Eunice (Hotchkiss) Durand Andrew and Samuel, were twins born December 3, 1758. They had ten more children; the youngest two, Clarissa (b. 1777) and John (bp. 1779) both died on April 6, 1781, very likely from typhoid fever. After their marriage, Andrew and Eunice settled into the parish of New Cheshire in Wallingford, which in 1780 became the town of Cheshire. All but [his] youngest child were recorded in Wallingford Vital Records. The last five are recorded in Parson Foot's Records of Baptisms, page 355, Town Recrods of Cheshire. Andrew Durand was a farmer. After his death on May 11, 1826, he was buried in the Old Graveyard in Cheshire, his gravestone stating that he was 'aged 95.' Facts about this person: Record Change December 23, 1999 Baptism December 15, 1734 Milford, New Haven Co., CT Burial 1826 Cheshire, New Haven Co., CT
See Note Page Facts about this person: Record Change June 18, 1999 Baptism December 15, 1734 Milford, New Haven Co., CT
See Note Page Facts about this person: Record Change June 18, 1999 Baptism December 1735 Milford, New Haven Co., CT
See Note Page Facts about this person: Baptism February 05, 1737/38 Milford, New Haven Co., CT
See Note Page Facts about this person: Baptism November 23, 1740 Milford, New Haven Co., CT
He married Jane Andrew 1729 . Jane Andrew was born at Milford, New Haven Co., Ct 16 Apr 1699 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Andrew Durand, Jr
born Abt Dec 1734.
John Durand
born Abt Dec 1734.
Abigail Durand
born 7 Dec 1735.
Samuel Durand
born Abt Jan 1738.
Jane Durand
born Abt Nov 1740.
Andrew Durand died 28 Oct 1791 at Derby, New Haven Co., Ct .
Jane Andrew died 15 Feb 1778 at Derby, New Haven Co., Ct .