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James Durant

Connection to Blackard:
Named on same Sparrow & Tye land patent as John Blackard.

1650 Charles City/Prince George Co VA

1650 Charles Sparrow & Richard Tye headrights patent for transportation of John Blackard.

 

In a 1670 patent William Peebles claims headrights on a James Durant and that name was also on the earlier 1650 headrights list with JOHN BLACKARD. Perhaps this was a transfer of headrights instead of a transporation. The Durant family may have come from Scotland as did Peebles and possibly the 3 Douglas men.

In another 1670 patent William Peebles claims headrights on a James Durant
and that name was also on the earlier 1650 headrights list with JOHN
BLACKARD. Perhaps this was a transfer of headrights instead of a
transporation. The Durant family may have come from Scotland as did Peebles
and possibly the 3 Douglas men.

16. William PEBLES ( PEEBLES ? ) 473 acres, south side of James
River---bounded on land formerly surveyed for Thomas NEWHOUSE
----to the Birchen Swamp---to the beginning. The said land was due for
the transporting of 10 persons, 30 July 1670.

1. John MINTER 7. Cathawin JENKIN
2. James DURRANT 8. John GRIMSHAW
3. Frances MAWGOOD 9. Giles WRIGHT
4. Thomas TOMLINSON 10. William LANGLAND
5. James DENT
6. Christopher BROWN
(source: Colonial Abstracts for Prince George Co, Va)