Patience (Weed) Durand (1738 - 1792)

Born 22 May 1738 in Canaan Parish, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Francois Joseph Durand — married 22 Dec 1762 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died Apr 1792 at age 53 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Problems/Questions Profile managers: William Osborne [send private message] and Ralph Architzel [send private message]

Biography

Patience Weed was born on 22 May 1738 in New Canaan, Connecticut to parents Daniel Weed and Ruth Weed. She married Francois Joseph Durand on 22 Dec 1762 in Stamford, Connecticut. Children: Joseph Francis, Alexandre, Simeon, Merari, Anna, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emelea, Mary Polly, Eleazor. She died in Apr 1792 in New Canaan, Connecticut.

In discussion of husband Francis Joseph's ties to Lafayette during the Revolutionary War, Celia and Milo Durand note: ^[1]

The probable truth is that Francis Joseph was in French employ and under French pay if serving Lafayette as an interpreter, and there would be no colonial record. We know that Lafayette often paid and equipped the Colonial troops, and it seems most reasonable that Francis Joseph's personal services to him as interpreter were cared for by himself, yet the colonial record of such service would be invaluable to his descendents. Surely he must have filled that position, for the tradition comes to us from all sides. Lafayette was located not far from Norwalk the first winter, and with such very patriotic relatives on the side of his wife, as the Weeds* it would be strange indeed if one so well fitted should not have served Lafayette in every way possible.

• Twenty three of the Weed family, from Stamford alone, fought in the Revolution.

• Christening (8 August 1738) New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, British America
• Burial (1792) New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of the Durand Family - A Record of the Descendents of Francis Joseph Durand, Together with Biographical Notes and Some Family Letters, Celia Durand, Oberlin Ohio 1925. www.LiteraryLicensing.com

• Huntington, Elijah Baldwin. Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Wm. W. Gillespie, Stamford, Conn., 1874) Page 126. Birth record.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 December 2019, 19:26), entry for Patience Weed(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K23M-72W); contributed by various users.
• Early Connecticut Marriages

• North America Family Histories 1500-2000

• Genealogy of the Durand Family - A Record of the Descendants of Francis Joseph Durand, Together with Biographical Notes and Some Family Letters, Celia Durand, Oberlin Ohio 1925. www.LiteraryLicensing.com

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54388975