_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___+
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719
_James BRYAN ___________|
| (1723 - 1807) m 1756 |
| |_Martha STRODE ______+
| (.... - 1747) m 1719
_Henry BRYAN ________|
| (1761 - 1820) |
| | _John ENOCHS ________
| | |
| |_Rebecca (Enochs) ENOX _|
| (.... - 1767) m 1756 |
| |_Margaret ___________
|
|
|--Susannah (Susan) BRYAN
|
| _____________________
| |
| ________________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Elizabeth SPARKS ___|
|
| _____________________
| |
|________________________|
|
|_____________________
_Francis Bryan III, SIR ______+
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___|
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719|
| |_Sarah BRINKER _______________
| m 1667
_James BRYAN ___________|
| (1723 - 1807) m 1756 |
| | _Sir William (Edward) STRODE _
| | |
| |_Martha STRODE ______|
| (.... - 1747) m 1719|
| |______________________________
|
|
|--Susannah (Susan) BRYAN
| (1763 - 1780)
| ______________________________
| |
| _John ENOCHS ________|
| | |
| | |______________________________
| |
|_Rebecca (Enochs) ENOX _|
(.... - 1767) m 1756 |
| ______________________________
| |
|_Margaret ___________|
|
|______________________________
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Susannah Bryan was one of the six children of James Bryan who after the death of their mother were reared by their cousin, Rebecca Bryan Boone, wife of Daniel Boone. It was at the Boone home that Susannah was married, possibly at Fort Boonesborough.
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_Francis Bryan III, SIR ______+
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___|
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719|
| |_Sarah BRINKER _______________
| m 1667
_William BRYAN , Col._|
| (1733 - ....) |
| | _Sir William (Edward) STRODE _
| | |
| |_Martha STRODE ______|
| (.... - 1747) m 1719|
| |______________________________
|
|
|--Thomas BRYAN
|
| _George BOONE III_____________+
| | (1666 - 1744) m 1689
| _Squire BOONE , Sr___|
| | (1696 - 1765) m 1720|
| | |_Mary Milton MAUGRIDGE _______+
| | (1668 - 1740) m 1689
|_Mary BOONE __________|
|
| _Edward MORGAN _______________
| | (1670 - ....) m 1686
|_Sarah MORGAN _______|
(1700 - 1777) m 1720|
|_Elizabeth ___________________
(1670 - ....) m 1686
_William Smith BRYAN _+
| (1600 - 1667) m 1631
_Francis Bryan III, SIR ______|
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667 |
| |_Catherine MORGAN ____
| (1604 - ....) m 1631
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___|
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719|
| | ______________________
| | |
| |_Sarah BRINKER _______________|
| m 1667 |
| |______________________
|
|
|--Thomas BRYAN , Capt.
| (.... - 1776)
| ______________________
| |
| _Sir William (Edward) STRODE _|
| | |
| | |______________________
| |
|_Martha STRODE ______|
(.... - 1747) m 1719|
| ______________________
| |
|______________________________|
|
|______________________
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___+
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719
_William BRYAN , Col._|
| (1733 - ....) |
| |_Martha STRODE ______+
| (.... - 1747) m 1719
_Thomas BRYAN _______|
| |
| | _Squire BOONE , Sr___+
| | | (1696 - 1765) m 1720
| |_Mary BOONE __________|
| |
| |_Sarah MORGAN _______+
| (1700 - 1777) m 1720
|
|--William BRYAN
|
| _____________________
| |
| ______________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Isabel HUNT ________|
|
| _____________________
| |
|______________________|
|
|_____________________
_William Smith BRYAN _+
| (1600 - 1667) m 1631
_Francis Bryan III, SIR ______|
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667 |
| |_Catherine MORGAN ____
| (1604 - ....) m 1631
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___|
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719|
| | ______________________
| | |
| |_Sarah BRINKER _______________|
| m 1667 |
| |______________________
|
|
|--William BRYAN , Col.
| (1733 - ....)
| ______________________
| |
| _Sir William (Edward) STRODE _|
| | |
| | |______________________
| |
|_Martha STRODE ______|
(.... - 1747) m 1719|
| ______________________
| |
|______________________________|
|
|______________________
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From Pike Co., History, chapter 40
William Bryan, Sr. and his brothers James, Joseph and Morgan Bryan had staked a settlement 16 miles north of Daniel Boone's fort at Boonesborough on the north fork of the Elkhorn, five miles northeast of present Lexington in Fayette Co., KY. Here they cleared 60 acres and planted corn, leaving two men to look after the crop, they returned to NC to their families. According to Daniel Boone Bryan (in the Draper Mss 22 C14)
Returning April 1779 Col. William Bryan and his brothers erected a small fort, put in a corn crop and again returned to NC to get their families. This time Col Samuel Bryan and William Grant were left there with their families to protect the fort.
Finally in the summer of 1779 William Bryan, his brothers Joseph, James, Morgan Bryan and their families arrived at the fort. A number of their neighbors in Yadkin, Rowan Co., NC. emigrated with them. Bryan's Station was one of the few forts built without a spring or well within its walls. Water supply had to be brought from a spring some distance from the fort. The women and children had to brave the lurking Indian, it is said that they were the true heros of Bryan's station.
This was a frontier post and greatly exposed to the hostilities of the savages. They were continually harassed by the Indians.
On May 1 1780 Col. William Bryan, and eleven other men, including his son William Jr. were out hunting in quest of meat for their families. They were attacked by a band of Indians and William Jr. died then, with Col. William Bryan lingering until May 7, 1780, at which time he died.
August 1780 the Bryans leave Bryan's Station in Kentucky and return to North Carolina where they stayed until the Indian troubles subsided. Since Samuel Bryan died in Yadkin, Rowan Co., NC about 1800, several conclusions are that the Bryan's had not yet returned to Bryan's station or he remained in Rowan Co., NC.
HISTORY: BRYANT'S STATION, FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Transcribed from History of Lexington Kentucky
Its Early Annals and Recent Progress; By George W. Ranck
Publ: Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co, 1872; Pg. 28
One of the results of the increased immigration to Kentucky, in the fall of
1779, was a settlement, made at a point about five miles northeast of the
Lexington "fort", and known as "Bryant's station." The immigrants were
principally from North Carolina, the most conspicuous of whom were the family of
Bryants, from whom the place took its name. There were four brothers, viz:
Morgan, James, William, and Joseph, all respectable men, in easy circumstances,
with large families of children, and mostly grown. William, though not the
eldest brother, was the most active, and considered their leader. His wife was
a sister of Col. Daniel Boone, as was also the wife of Mr. William Grant, who
likewise settled in Bryant's station, in 1779. The death of William Bryant, who
died of a wound received near the mouth of Cane run, so discouraged his friends
that they returned to North Carolina, and the greater part of the population
from that State left the fort about the same time, which would have so reduced
the strength, as to compel the remainder also to remove, if the fort had not
acquired new strenth, in a number of families from Virginia. Robert Johnson
(the father of the Hon. Richard M. Johnson), the Craigs, Stuckers, Hendersons,
and Mitchells were among the number who removed to Bryant's station, and kept up
the strength of the place at what it had been, if not greater than at any former
period.
A buffalo "trace" fortunately ran from this station close to Lexington, and the
settlers of both places joined forces in clearing it of logs, undergrowth, and
other obstructions; a wise measure, as subsequent events proved, for, owing to
it, the troops from Lexington that went to the assistance of the besieged
station, in 1782, were enable to reach it much sooner than they could otherwise
have done.
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 21 page 321
[Rs. Emma Bryan Burdsal. DAR ID Number: 20909
Born in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Wife of Alfred Burdsal.
Descendant of Capt. William Bryan.
Daughter of Albert Hundley Bryan and Nancy Moredock, his wife.
Granddaughter of William Bryan and Ann Hundley, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Bryan and Isabel Hunt, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of William Bryan and Mary Boone, his wife.
[p.321] William Bryan, (1733-81), was one of the four brothers who built the fort called Bryan's Station, Kentucky, 1779. He served as captain in the western frontier until he was massacred by the Indians. He was born in Chester county, Pa., removed to Rowan county, North Carolina, with his father and there in 1755 married a sister of Daniel Boone.
NOTE: THOMAS BRYAN
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 19
Mrs. Mary L. Moore.
DAR ID Number: 18001
Born in Palmyra, Missouri.
Wife of Thornton Moore.
Descendant of Capt. William Bryan and of Daniel Boone Bryan, of Kentucky.
Daughter of John Beeler Hurst and Hester Whiting Bryan, his wife.
Granddaughter of Samuel Bryan and Elizabeth Higbee, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Daniel Boone Bryan and Elizabeth Turner, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of William Bryan and Mary Boone, his wife (sister of Daniel).
William Bryan, (1733-1781), served in the border warfare of Virginia and North Carolina. He was born in Chester Co., Pa., removed to North Carolina about 1755 and with three brothers emigrated from there to Fayette Co., Ky., 1779. He was in the fort at Bryant's Station when it was attacked by Indians. He was mortally wounded and his son William was killed.
_Francis Bryan III, SIR ______+
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___|
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719|
| |_Sarah BRINKER _______________
| m 1667
_William BRYAN , Col._|
| (1733 - ....) |
| | _Sir William (Edward) STRODE _
| | |
| |_Martha STRODE ______|
| (.... - 1747) m 1719|
| |______________________________
|
|
|--William BRYAN , Jr.
| (.... - 1781)
| _George BOONE III_____________+
| | (1666 - 1744) m 1689
| _Squire BOONE , Sr___|
| | (1696 - 1765) m 1720|
| | |_Mary Milton MAUGRIDGE _______+
| | (1668 - 1740) m 1689
|_Mary BOONE __________|
|
| _Edward MORGAN _______________
| | (1670 - ....) m 1686
|_Sarah MORGAN _______|
(1700 - 1777) m 1720|
|_Elizabeth ___________________
(1670 - ....) m 1686
[210] William Bryan, (1733-1781), served in the border warfare of Virginia and North Carolina. He was born in Chester Co., Pa., removed to North Carolina about 1755 and with three brothers emigrated from there to Fayette Co., Ky., 1779. He was in the fort at Bryant's Station when it was attacked by Indians. He was mortally wounded and his son William was killed.
_Morgan BRYAN , Sr___+
| (1671 - 1763) m 1719
_James BRYAN ___________|
| (1723 - 1807) m 1756 |
| |_Martha STRODE ______+
| (.... - 1747) m 1719
_David BRYAN ________|
| (1757 - 1837) m 1791|
| | _John ENOCHS ________
| | |
| |_Rebecca (Enochs) ENOX _|
| (.... - 1767) m 1756 |
| |_Margaret ___________
|
|
|--William King BRYAN
|
| _____________________
| |
| _John POWER, , Jr.______|
| | (1748 - ....) |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Mary (Poor) POWER __|
(1773 - 1836) m 1791|
| _Israel BOONE _______+
| | (.... - 1756) m 1747
|_Elizabeth BOONE _______|
(1752 - 1817) |
|_Martha _____________
m 1747
_Francis Bryan II, SIR _+
| (1549 - ....) m 1580
_William Smith BRYAN _|
| (1600 - 1667) m 1631 |
| |_Ann SMITH _____________+
| (1560 - ....) m 1580
_Francis Bryan III, SIR _|
| (1630 - 1694) m 1667 |
| | ________________________
| | |
| |_Catherine MORGAN ____|
| (1604 - ....) m 1631 |
| |________________________
|
|
|--William S. BRYAN
| (1685 - ....)
| ________________________
| |
| ______________________|
| | |
| | |________________________
| |
|_Sarah BRINKER __________|
m 1667 |
| ________________________
| |
|______________________|
|
|________________________
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_Thomas Bryan II, SIR ____________________________________+
| (1464 - 1516)
_Francis Bryan I, Sir, Lord Marshall of IRELAND ____________|
| (1492 - 1549) m 1548 |
| |_Margaret BOURCHIER ______________________________________+
| (1470 - 1551)
_Francis Bryan II, SIR _|
| (1549 - ....) m 1580 |
| | _James F. (Fitzmaurice) Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of DESMOND _
| | |
| |_Joan Fitzgerald (FITZ-MAURICE), Lady, Countess of ORMONDE _|
| (.... - 1564) m 1548 |
| |_Amy (O' Brien) MAC-I-BRIEN-ARA __________________________+
|
|
|--William Smith BRYAN
| (1600 - 1667)
| __________________________________________________________
| |
| _William SMITH _____________________________________________|
| | |
| | |__________________________________________________________
| |
|_Ann SMITH _____________|
(1560 - ....) m 1580 |
| __________________________________________________________
| |
|____________________________________________________________|
|
|__________________________________________________________
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Chronography of Political and Religious Conflict:
1649 January 30 King Charles (Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland) is beheaded. The Puritan "Rump Government" then declares England a Commonwealth (or republic) without a king or a house of lords.
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1653 Oliver Cromwell, after putting down revolts in Ireland and Scotland with great cruelty, comes back from the wars. He dismisses Parliament, and "nominates" a Parliament of his own. The Commonwealth then takes the name of Protectorate, with Cromwell as Lord Protector.
William Smith Bryan attempted to gain throne of Ireland during Puritan Rebellion and was exiled to VA by Cromwell in 1650. One account states that he was dubbed "Prince William of Ireland" by his followers
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1658 Oliver Cromwell dies and his eldest son, Richard Cromwell, becomes Lord Protector.
1659 Too weak to control the army, Richard Cromwell is forced to resign.
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1660 George Monk, one of Cromwell's generals, brings an army from Scotland and has the Rump of the Long Parliament recalled to dissolve itself. A new Parliament is elected and offers the crown to Charles II, the exiled son of Charles I. The Puritan age suddenly comes to an end.
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Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 7
Lineage
page 105
WILLIAM SMITH BRYAN was a landholder in Ireland, County Clare, at the time of the British invasion under CROMWELL, and for taking the side of Ireland was transported as a rebellious subject, in 1650, to the American Colonies, with his family, goods and chattels, consisting of a ship load. He settled in Gloucester County, Virginia; he had eleven sons. Morgan BRYAN, who was in Norfolk County in 1693, was probably one of these sons. Francis BRYAN, the oldest son, returned to Ireland, in 1677, and endeavored to recover his hereditary titles and estates, but was so greatly persecuted by the English Government that he sought refuge in Denmark. After a few years he returned to Ireland. His oldest son Morgan was born in Denmark. It is believed that William BRYAN, b. in 1685, was also his son. William BRYAN and his wife, Margaret, lived at Ballyroney, County Down, Ireland. They were Presbyterians.
The town of Bryansford near by is said to have been named for some of his family. William and Margaret BRYAN one day sent their little son John into the woods to cut a stick to make a handle for a book used in weaving, and he was arrested for poaching. After much trouble and [p.105] expense the father got him clear and immediately sailed for America, where, he said, timber was free and there were no constables. This was in the year 1718. William BRYAN and family settled in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. (From Bryan-Akers Family by Jesse BRYAN.
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Source Information:
Notable Southern Families, Volumes I-II. Richmond, VA: n.p., 1918.
It has been said that the family tree of the O'Briens bends beneath the weight of its royal ancestry. "On every branch hangs a monarch" was almost too true at one time. Kings of Thomound, of Munster and Limrick, Earls of Ichquin and Barons of Tadcaster are of this line.
The Monarch, Brien Boru, killed at the battle of Cloutart in 1014, is said to be responsible for the name Bryan as the surname, the "O" meaning the son of, or descendant of Brien, and no matter what the spelling of the name, they are all the same family, from Machias O'Brien of Maine with his six fighting sons to Joseph Bryan, the English planter, who settled in South Carolina prior to 1700.
Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina received their quota of emigrants of the name, three main lines all add to the same story of political intrigue in the old country, showing a common ancestor. Many believe this to be William Smith Bryan, "deported to the colony of Virginia in 1650, as an undesirable citizen, with his family goods and chattles, consisting of a shipload (McKenzie Colonial Families, Vol. VI).
He was the son of Sir Francis Bryan, a prominent man of Ireland about the middle of the 16th century.
One authority makes Francis Bryan the son of William Smith Bryan and places William Smith Bryan's arrival in Virginia, in 1615, with the statement that between the years 1623 and 1666 there were twenty-one Bryans, sons and grandsons of William Smith Bryan, who took up lands in Virginia. Certain it is that in 1631, January 2, John Bryan, aged 25, was transported to Virginia in boat "Bonaventure"
William Smith Bryan is said to be the ancestor of Sir Edward O'Brien, of William Smith O'Brien and Lord Ichquin. The Edward O'Brien line settled in North Carolina. "Edward was the eldest of five brothers, and brought with him the coronet which was his birth-right".
Needham Bryan, born in Virginia in 1690, settled in North Carolina, "urged by relatives already there". William Smith Bryan, the first in Virginia, son of Sir Francis Bryan, settled in Gloucester County, Virginia, and had eleven sons. We are only sure of one, Francis, the eldest, altho Morgan Bryan in Norfolk County in 1693 is thought to be a son. Perhaps also James Bryan a land owner in Isle of Wight County and his brother, William Bryan (father of Needham) who settled in Isle of Wight County in 1688, Richard in King George County, 1694 and John the father of five O'Briens who settled in North Carolina (Edward, William, John, Council and Hardy). In Vol. VI, Virginia Colonial Records, page 12, the will of Thomas Wight, Sept. 20, 1672, of Moratico Creek, mentions sons-in-law Thomas and Robert Bryan.