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From: Robert Mathiesen <>
Subject: Re: Ancestry of THOMAS DURFEE, born 1643 in Englan
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 20:59:12 EDT


In article <41gjd5$>, (KLarsen342)
said:

>Have much information on descendants of Thomas Durfee, born in England in
>1643, who migrated to Portsmouth, Rhode Island circa 1660...
>
>Can anyone help with his ancestor information?
>
>Also, can anyone supply me the name of his second wife?

He interests me also, because he is one of my wife's ancestors. What is
the evidence for his birth in England rather than in France, and also
for the date by which he was in Rhode Island? Is there any chance he
was a Hugenot? My wife's family has preserved two 17th-century drinking
glasses, which tradition says have come down from a Hugenot ancestor
"below the salt" who purloined them from the table of the King of France
(Louis XIV) when he had to leave France after the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes. It looks very much like Thomas Durfee is the one and only
17th-century ancestor of hers who *could* have been a Hugenot. (We are
assuming the name was originally d'Urfey or something of that sort.)

Robert Mathiesen, Brown University,

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