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Dear Sharon,
It would appear to me that your Hannah B. Duryea is the daughter of George C. Duryea and Hannah Bussing. But, you seem to have one more marriage for her than I have thus far been able to locate. In the information below, I note her marriage to a Kennedy, then Danforth. But we seem to have a severe conflict in dates, unless the inscription on her daughter Ann Kennedy's grave stone is incorrectly transcribed. The grave stone states that the the daughter Ann was born in 1840. The marriage date for Hannah B. Duryee to Kennedy is from the NYG&B Record and is correct. Thus, one assumes, the daughter Ann Kennedy, born 1840, represents a marriage between Hannah B. Duryee and Kennedy of about 11 years duration and lasting past the date you have provided for her marriage to Jacob Robbins Wolcott.
Given the several children born by Wolcott and the other marriage to Danforth, this is really hard to reconcile.
Still, I think we are talking about the same Hannah B. Duryee. It would be very helpful to be able to discuss this with you at length so we can compare notes and see if we can develop the correct chronologies here. Hannah is buried with her daughter Ann Kennedy at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, according to the Cohen transciptions.
George(5) C. Duryee (Jacob^4 K., John^3, Jacob^2, Joost^1 Duryee), date of birth not discovered, died between 22 October 1822 and 19 November 1822, married 7 November 1816 at Harlem, New York, Hannah (Bussing) Drake [Records of the Reformed Low Dutch Church of Harlem. NYG&BS Microfilm Collection:32], daughter of Abraham Bussing. The IGI lists her as Hannah B. Drake, but we learn her natal identity from the will of her (supposed) uncle John Bussing, a farmer in New York City, whose will was dated 28 June 1828 and probated 30 June 1830. According to the abstract, John Bussing gives to "Abraham Bussing's children: Hannah Bussing Drake, now Hannah B. Duryee; Susan Sands, wife of Obadiah Sands [Abstracts of NYC Wills]."
George(5) C. Duryee, calling himself a merchant of Harlem, names as heirs: wife Hannah B.; daughters Hannah(6) B. Duryee and Susannah(6) Duryee; also the widow of Abraham Duryee [op cit].
George(5) C. Duryee and Hannah Bussing had issue:
Hannah(6) B. Duryee, named in her father's will of 1822, then unmarried. She married (1), 1829, at Harlem, New York, Reverend Algernon Sydney Kennedy, and (2) Mosely J. Danforth. She had at least one daughter, Ann(7) Kennedy, born in Hartford, Connecticut, 25 April 1840, died 21 February 1924, who married Edward Self, born in Bath, England, 8 November 1838 and died 26 December 1923, the son of Edward and Mary (______) Self. The foregoing is based upon biographic inscriptions in the family plot in Greenwood Cemetery [Gravestone Inscriptions of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. (1932). Minnie Cohen].
Her sister, mentioned in their father's will of 1822:
Susannah(6) Maria Duryee, born 9 November 1812, baptized 8 January 1823 (she was 11 years old at the time), HarlemRDC [NYG&B Record 118:35].
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