Durrin - Durnin, Weathersfield, Vt.
I am searching for information on Edmund Durrin, who married one of David Hapgood's daughters... as follows:I cannot find anything about this family, the surname is not even on the "Finder."I am wondering if his last name is correct in the Hapgood [email protected]
Edmund Durrin, b. ca. 1786/7..
Sally Myrick, Hapgood, b. Princeton, Mass., 8 June, 1788, dau. of David & Sally (Myrick) Hapgood of Reading, Vt.
They were m. in Reading (Windsor Co.) Vt. 24 Dec., 1815.
Edmund Durrin was of Weathersfield, Vt. at the time of his marriage, a manufacturer. He had purchased at tax sale, in 1813, part of Lot #53 and 96 acres of Lot 27in Weathersfield.Afterwards he moved to Springfield, Vt. where he was a landlord. In 1827, he took over the first hotel on Main Street built by Colonel Jonathan Williams in 1800. He sold it to Benjamin Sawyer, as he had grown quite ill, probably from consumptive illness. He made his will making his brother-in-law, Bridgman Hapgood executor,and left for the south to regain his health He d. in New Orleans, 22 Feb., 1837.Sally Myrick d. at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fidelia Forbush in Reading, 3 July, 1855 (age 67).I am not sure they had children. I am trying to find out.
In the Weathersfield book by Butterfield, he spelled the name "Durnin"