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Author: Mr. Elijah Jacob Shalis
Second Major Nathan Durkee was born on the 1st of May 1760 in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, a son of James Durkee and Lydia Pitcher. He is a descendant of William Durgee, whom is the first known Irish immigrant to North America. He was 15 when the Revolutionary War started and enlisted in the Town of Fort Edward New York. He enlisted as a Private and Scout in the Washington County, New York, Militia. He first was a Private in the Company of Alexander Campbell, then Captain Payne in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, then under Captain Stockwell, then Lt. Bradshaw, then in a Company of Captain Stockwell in Colonel Warner's Regiment of Militia. He and his fellow scouts were captured by the British. While washing their clothes by the river, they stole a boat and escaped their captors under musket fire. In 1789 he went into the home of Isaac Doty and drank milk which turned out to be poisened and he got very ill that never fully recovered from. He was at the Battle of Saratoga, New York. He applied for a Revolutionary War Pension when he was 72 years old in 1832. Nathan also signed the Charter of the Washington County Library. He died on Christmas Day, Dec 25th, 1841 in Genesee County, New York. His first wife was Effie Lindsay whom he married in 1782 in Washington County, New York, he next married Eunice Clement. He rose through the ranks after the Revolutionary War and retired as a 2nd Major in 1810. He then briefly served in the War of 1812 in the Washington County Militia in Colonel Green's 118th Regiment of Militia.
Sources:
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files: S. 22743
Gunderson, Bernice B. and Robin K. Durkee, The Durkee Family Genealogy, California. Long Beach: Society of Genealogy of Durkee, 2009
Washington County Clerk, Miscellaneous Files: Washington County Library Charter
Military minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821
Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812, NARA Roll: M602_0063
Author: Mr. Elijah Jacob Shalis
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