Benjamin Durant
Abt 1754 - 1813 (~ 59 years)-
Name Benjamin Durant Born Abt 1754 South Carolina 
[1] Gender Male Died 30 Aug 1813 Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama [1] 
Fort Mims Massacre
30 August 1813Probate 4 Feb 1854 Blakeley, Baldwin, Alabama Martin M. Durant, administrator de bonis non. Heirs: 2 living daughters- Rachel Walker, Sumter County, Alabama; Sophia McComb, Alabama; Grandchildren (children of son Lachlan Durant, deceased)- A. J. Durant, Texas; Charles Durant, Alabama; Sarah J. Addams, Florida; Constantine Durant, Florida; and Martin M. Durant. 
Estate of Benjamin Durant, Baldwin County, Case 160
"Alabama, Estate Files, 1830-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23280-40413-71?cc=1978117&wc=MX5L-DWT:314239301,314726401 : accessed 24 December 2014), Baldwin > Durant, Benj (1854) > image 1 of 9; county courthouses, Alabama.Buried Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama Person ID I6020 Dickinson Last Modified 24 Dec 2014
Family Sophia McGillivray, b. Abt 1746, Alabama Married Abt 1770 Alabama [3] - Arturo O'Neill alleges in a 19 Oct 1783 letter to Josef de Ezpeleta, the acting captain general in Havana, that Sophia was "married to an Indian half-breed named Duran, whose father was French, and they are actually on the road with a good herd of cattle and some forty slaves to settle on the Escambia River eighteen leagues from here." [2]
Children + 1. Lachlan McGillivray Durant, b. 1775, Alabama , d. 1853, Baldwin County, Alabama (Age 78 years)2. John Durant, d. bef. 1855 [Birth] 3. Alexander Durant, d. bef. 1855 [Birth] + 4. Mary Durant, b. Abt 1783, Alabama , d. 1836, Alabama (Age ~ 53 years)5. Rachel Durant, b. Abt 1785, Alabama 6. Sophia Durant, b. Abt 1787, Alabama 7. Elizabeth Durant, b. Abt 1790, Alabama , d. Bef 1855 (Age ~ 65 years) [Birth]8. Nancy Durant, b. Abt 1792, Alabama , d. ca. 1854, Baldwin County, Alabama (Age ~ 62 years) [Birth]Last Modified 5 Feb 2013 Family ID F1603 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Died - 30 Aug 1813 - Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama 
Probate - Martin M. Durant, administrator de bonis non. Heirs: 2 living daughters- Rachel Walker, Sumter County, Alabama; Sophia McComb, Alabama; Grandchildren (children of son Lachlan Durant, deceased)- A. J. Durant, Texas; Charles Durant, Alabama; Sarah J. Addams, Florida; Constantine Durant, Florida; and Martin M. Durant. - 4 Feb 1854 - Blakeley, Baldwin, Alabama Buried - - Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 37, 234.
- [S336355] McGillivray of the Creeks, Caughey, John Walton, (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), 62.
- [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 37.
- [S336345] A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, Gregory A. Waselkov, (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 37, 234.