Phebe DURAND

   Cause of her death was Possibly in child birth.

  General Notes:

4th Great Grandmother.
New Jersey Census, 1643-1890
about Phebe Durand
Name: Phebe Durand
State: NJ
County: Essex County
Township: North Farms
Year: 1799
Database: NJ Early Census Index

Births came a family bible of Ezra Durand.


Source Abbrev: Durand, Durand Genealogy Title: Durand Genealogy Author: Durand, Samuel Relf (1904-1996) Publication: Palo Alto, CA: Published privately, 1965 (some material ad ded in 1993).

MARRIAGE: MARRIAGE RECORDS OF BAPTIST CHURCH AT LYONS FARMS, 1795-1800

MARRIAGE: Clay, Thomas, North Farms, and Phebe Durand, of the same place 1799 Oct. 19

CENSUS NY 1810: 1810 NY. Madison County, Cazenovia, Page 134 : T. Clay/ males :3 under 10; 1 between 26 and 40 /females: 1 under 10; 1 of 10 and under 16; 1 between 26 and 40.
Source Citation: Year: 1810; Census Place: Cazenovia, Madison, New York; Roll: 28; Page: 735; Family History Number: 0181382; Image: 00141.
1810 United States Federal Census
about T Clay Name: T Clay
Township: Cazenovia
County: Madison
State: New York
Free White Males Under 10: 3
Free White Males 26 to 44: 1
Free White Females Under 10: 1 ?
Free White Females 10 to 15: 1 ?
Free White Females 26 to 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 5
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 7


BIOGRAPHY: Phebe (Durand) Clay died around 1811 probably shortly after the birth of her daughter Phebe. She may have been buried at the old graveyard at the Presbyterian church which was sold in 1813 and the graves removed. There are also many old cemeteries around Cazenovia which have no stones.
Her children with Thomas Clay seem to all be named from relatives from the Durand Family. Elijah D(urand?) for her father, Ira from cousins and John and Phebe from grandfather and self.

Buried at Chittenango Falls Cemetery is a Durand D. Fisher b.1824 died May 19, 1849. (I don't know if he has any relationship to the Durand Family. possibly a son of a female relative of Phebes.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Church Record of Marriage: Lyons Baptist Church, 1799, Essex Co., New Jersey.

• Map: North Farms/ Jefferson Villiage / Maplewood , Essex, NJ, 1850, North Farms, Essex, New Jersey, USA.

Phebe married Thomas CLAY, son of CLAY and Unknown, on 19 Oct 1799 in Baptist Church At Lyons Farms, New Jersey. (Thomas CLAY was born in 1777 in New Jersey, USA, christened on 27 Jan 1811 in Presbyterian, Cazenovia, Madison Co., New York, died on 31 Mar 1852 in Fenner, Madison, New York, USA and was buried in Chittenango Falls, Fenner, Madison Co., New York.)

  Marriage Notes:

By The Rev. Peter Bryant

Documents relating to the colonial, revolutionary and post-revolutionary history of the state of New Jersey, Volume 22
New Jersey Historical Society 1900 - History page 601-602

MARRIAGE RECORDS OF BAPTIST CHURCH AT LYONS FARMS, 1795-1800

Clay, Thomas, North Farms, and Phebe Durand, of the same place 1799 Oct. 19