The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
John Durham was born about 1732 in Kent County, Delaware, as the son of Daniel Durham Jr. and Eleanor Puckham. His father was a farmer and a justice of the peace, and his mother was a descendant of an early settler of Maryland. John was a justice of the peace and had at least one brother, William, who also became a farmer and a justice of the peace.
During the Revolutionary War he supplied one mare and a colt to the cause.
Several different names are offered as the wife of John Durham: Molly Hawkins, Mable Durham Sherrill, and Sarah Elizabeth Hewes. John and his family lived in Little Creek Hundred, Kent County, where they owned about 300 acres.
John died in May 1788 in Little Creek Hundred and was buried in the Durham Family Cemetery.
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