Dear Cheryl,

I have four basic sources for my information on your ancestral family which I will note in a minute, not counting Surrogate Court info. Presently, my compilation provides this configuration:

Wright Duryea and Susan E. Albertson had issue:

1. Sarah Elizabeth Duryea, born 3 February 1853, died 9 February 1861. Buried with parents.

2. Charles Francis Duryea, born 7 February 1856, died 19 August 1877. Had not married.

3. Henry E. Duryea, born 5 May 1859, died 5 May 1861. Buried with his parents.

4. Louis Townsend Duryea, born 1861, died 25 June 1924, Utica, New York, buried St. Paul's Church yard, Glen Cove, Nassau County, Long Island, married Harriet LeSage.

5. Arthur Zebulon Duryea, born 10 February 1864, died 11 April 1873.

6. Francis "Frank" Wright Duryea, born 11 June 1873, died 11 April 1922, married 27 June 1895 Grace Comins Wolcott, of Dedham, Massachusetts, born 13 August 1873, date of death not discovered. This couple has at least one child: Wright Duryea, born 14 February 1896, New York City, died October 1961, married 22 September 1949, name of spouse not offered, and had a daughter Cornelia Duryea, who married Mr. Telfer-Smollet.

The statement that Charles Francis died unmarried comes from his obituary, which is abstracted in Hood's "Queens County Sentinel."

Discussions on the Wolcott connections here come from a discussion generated over at the Wolcott Family Genealogy GenForum (). Your information that there was a Walcott Duryea is news to me and I am anxious to learn more of this kin.

The original outline of the family comes from two sources:

Howland Delano Perrine, The Wright Family of Oyster Bay, L.I. (1923).

Henry B. Hoff, The Albertson Family of Oyster Bay, L.I., NYGB Record:110, reprinted Genealogies of Long Island Families I:18.

I had reference to your particular ancestor, Louis, having had children, but had not yet found their names (Meigs Collection, Long Island Room, Queensborough Public Library, Jamaica, Long Island).

I had also noted that your Louis did not appear to have joined in the Corn Starch business, but instead went his own way. This impression is derived from his listing in the Brooklyn directories as being in the "gas fixtures" business. I would greatly enjoy learning more about this and about your line in general, and hope that you will contact me privately.

Richard