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[GenForum Readers: as Teresa has posted both to this forum and emailed me privately, I am posting my reply to her as a general FYI]
Dear Teresa,
Thank you for writing and for your query. I have a great many Duryeas
"under scrutiny" but none that married a Jacobus.
However, my study is of the descendants of Joost Duryea and Magdalena
LeFevre, who arrived on these shores in about 1674. A while later, a fellow
named Jan Durie arrived with a group of Huguenots and settled with them at
New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. Sometime after this, many of the
members of this group in New Rochelle removed together with a fellow named
DeMaree (later spelled Demarest) to Hackensack, New Jersey [including Jan Durie]. This Jan Durie
married a woman named Rachel Cresson and commenced a family. Many
descendants of this couple came to spell their surname Duryea. Among these
Duryeas are members of the family who married Jacobus family members--in New
Jersey. I have a strong suspicion that your Henrietta may be a descendant of
Jan Durie and Rachel Cresson.
One of the fellows on the Duryea Family GenForum apparently owns or has
access to the book on Durie descendants by the (somewhat recently) late
Howard K. Durie and it might be worth your while to contact that gent to see
if he can look for Henrietta among them.
In the meantime, I do have a small outline on some Durie descendants that I
put together for the purpose of helping me differentiate them from
descendants of Joost Duryea and Magdalena LeFevre--as you may imagine, when
the two families came to spell the name the same and lived in the same area
at the same time, it can be rough sledding. I will look at this outline of
Durie folks to see if I can offer anything from there that might help.
Until then,
Richard
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