Lachlan McGillivray Durant
1775 - 1853 (78 years)-
Name Lachlan McGillivray Durant Born 1775 Alabama 
[1, 2] Gender Male Political 17 Dec 1817 Mr. Poindexter also presented petitions of Absalom Sizemoor, Samuel Fisher, Benjamin Fisher, Daniel Randon, Samuel Smith, John Burford, and Richard Turvin, Lachlan Durant, George Stiggins, William Sizemoor, Surmie M-Gee, Leonard M'Gee, Elijah Tcrvin, James Earle, Hardy Reed, William Tuley, Charles Elliott, James Cornells, and Arthur Sizemoor, half blood Creek Indians, praying that their respective titles to lands in the territory of Alabama, may be confirmed in fee simple.
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee on Private Land Claims.Died 1853 Baldwin County, Alabama Buried Bromley Cemetery, Bromley, Baldwin, Alabama Person ID I6021 Dickinson Last Modified 28 Mar 2012
Father Benjamin Durant, b. Abt 1754, South Carolina , d. 30 Aug 1813, Fort Mims, Baldwin, Alabama (Age ~ 59 years) Mother Sophia McGillivray, b. Abt 1746, Alabama Married Abt 1770 Alabama [4] - 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." [3]
Family ID F1603 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Hall Children + 1. Sarah Durant, b. 10 Mar 1806, Florida , d. 26 May 1883, Bagdad, Santa Rosa, Florida (Age 77 years) [Birth]+ 2. Martin Madrid Durant, b. 1810, Monroe County, Alabama , d. 1880, Baldwin County, Alabama (Age 70 years) [Birth]3. Andrew Jackson Durant, b. 14 Mar 1811, Monroe County, Alabama , d. 29 Mar 1909, Bartlett, Williamson, Texas (Age 98 years)4. Charles Durant, b. Abt 1812, Monroe County, Alabama 5. William Durant, b. Abt 1816, Monroe County, Alabama , d. Bef 1855 (Age ~ 39 years) [Birth]6. Constantine P Durant, b. Abt 1822, Monroe County, Alabama 7. Aulilia Durant Last Modified 19 Jan 2014 Family ID F1619 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Died - 1853 - Baldwin County, Alabama 
Buried - - Bromley Cemetery, Bromley, 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), 40.
Given as about 1775. - [S007856] 1850 United States Census, Bureau of the Census, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850), Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 1, Baldwin, Alabama; Roll: M432_1; Page: 88B; Image: 283.
- [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), 40.