Download or read book The Durst and Darst Families of America with Discussions of Some Forty Related Families written by Sanford Charles Gladden and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Durst (d.1772) was a possible son of Abraham Durst the emigrant who came to Philadelphia in 1743 and settled at Reading Borough, Berks Co., Pennsylvania in 1790. He married Mary and they were one of the first families to settle in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They owned land in Frederick and Shenandoah County. He died in Dunmore Co. They were the parents of Abraham, Isaac, Mary, David, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph and Paul. Family members lived in Dunmore, Frederick, Franklin, Shenandoah and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia and Meigs Co., Ohio.