Fourth Generation

8. Lieutenant Timothy Lewis DURKEE Sr. (*) was born on 1 May 1737 in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^1,5 "Timothy Durkee was one of the original grantees of the town.(Royalton, Vermont). He was in Hanover, N.H. in 1773, when he served as pound keeper, and in 1775 Lieut. Timothy Durkee was one of a committee to procure arms and ammunitions. He was a Revolutionary soldier.

He came to Royalton between 1775 and 1779, when he appears on record Mar. 23, as grand juryman. He and his wife appear on the earliest records of the church. They were more liberal in doctrine than the generality of members of that time, and Mr. Durkee afterwards joined a Bethel church.

He settled on his 260 acres in 53 T.P. in of the finest lots in town. His house stood on the other side of the road from the present house, known as the Edward Rix place. He must have been a stirring, enterprising man. He seems to have given a portion of his land for a burial ground, before the town took any action in the purchase of the N. Royalton cemetery.

He was selectman in 1779, but after that date seems to have eschewed politics, though the town meetings were often held at his house. His attention was probably given to improving his land, for in 1792 he had seventy acres of improved land, considerably more than any other man in town." (History of Royalton, Vermont)

Vermont had been part of New Hampshire and part of New York and was only at this time evolving into what later became the 14th state of the Union. Timothy volunteered for service first as a private and later as a Lieutenant. He assisted in the building of Fort Fortitude in Bethel, Vermont.

He died in March 1797, just prior to his 60th birthday. His tombstone reads: "In Memory of Lt. Timothy Durkee age 59 years, 10 months."
He served in the military about 1776.⁶ He was a Revolutionary Soldier in the War for Independence. He died on 22 March 1797 at the age of 59 in Royalton, Windsor County, VT.⁵ Timothy was buried in Royalton, Windsor County, VT.⁴ in the North Royalton Cemetery.

Lieutenant Timothy Lewis DURKEE Sr. (*) and Lucy Anna SMALLEY (*) (~) were married on 3 May 1758 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.⁵ Lucy Anna SMALLEY (*) (~)^7,8, daughter of Joseph SMALLEY and Jemima ORDWAY, was born on 19 January 1736 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^5,6 (She may have been born in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.) She died on 19 February 1797 at the age of 61 in Royalton, Windsor County, VT.⁵ She has Ancestral File Number 113C-3L5. Lucy was buried in Royalton, Windsor County, VT.⁶ in the North Royalton Cemetery.

Lieutenant Timothy Lewis DURKEE Sr. (*) and Lucy Anna SMALLEY (*) (~) had the following children: