John
Andrew Bryan 1712
– 1799
My 5th G-Grandfather – by
David Arthur
DAR Ancestor #:
A016254
Service:
VIRGINIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth:
CIRCA 1712 IRELAND
Death:
12-9-1799 CAMPBELL CO VIRGINIA
Service
Description:
1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES
Spouse: MARY MORRISON
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JOHN ANDREW
BRYAN of near Fairfield, Rockbridge County, Virginia; d. between 9th October
and 9th December, 1779; m. Mary MORRISON; was a member of Capt. Peter HOGG'S
Company of the Virginia troops serving under Washington at the Battle of Great
Meadows and at the siege and surrender of Fort Necessity, 4th July, 1754.
(Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, volume 1, page 279., Virginia
State Records; also Washington Memoirs, 11, 111, Library of Congress.) He also
served in the Revolutionary war in Capt. Thomas MERRIWETHER'S [p.106] Company,
First Virginia State troops, March, 1777, to serve for three years. (Record
United States War Department; his two sons Andrew Morrison BRYAN and John BRYAN
were also in the Revolution in Captain LEFTWITCH'S Company, Colonel CHRISTIE.
The latter John BRYAN, Jr., seeing service in the Battle of Brandywine, was
wounded at Guilford Courthouse and was at Jamestown and at the capture of
Cornwallis. (U. S. Bureau of Pensions.)
2. John Andrew
Bryan m. Mary Morrison and moved abt 1737 to Burden
Colony near Fairfield, Rockbridge Co., VA. After living a few years in the
Borden Colony they and their family proceeded to the Staunton River, where he
became owner of land upon a part of which Salem is now situated. He later
disposed of this land and moved down to a grant which he secured along the
Great Road east of his father's holdings. He left the Staunton River, trading
his land for "a pair of cart-wheels" and moved with his family to
Campbell Co., VA. Here he bought 329 acres of Richard Stith and 439 acres of
Benjamin Arnold. On the last named tract he at once erected a bark hut, he
later built a house farther down on Molly's Creek. A lot on this place was used
as a muster ground for years after the Revolution. (Colonial Families of US,
Vol VI, by MacKinzie, pages 104 through 106.)
(New Jersey
Archives, First Series, XXII, 36)((Map in Kegler, op.cit., opposite 562 shows
land of John Bryan(t). Records of land grants on the Roanoke, Box XIII, 314)
shows grant with date of August 16, 1756 to John Andrew Bryan.)
3. Was a member
of Capt. Peter Hogg's Company of the VA troops serving under Washington at the
Battle of Great Meadows and at the siege and surrender of Fort Necessity, 4th
Jul 1754. (VA Magazine of History & Biography,
vol. 1, pg. 279)(VA State Records)
4. John Andrew
Bryan also enlisted in Capt. Thomas Merriweather's Company, VA State Troops -
private, March 1777 to serve three years. (Rev. War, War
Dept. records.
Colonial Families of US., Vol VI, MacKinzie
pg. 105)
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Son – Andrew
Morrison Bryan
Grandson – William
Akers Bryan
G-Grandson –
Andrew Bryan
GG-Granddaughter
– Sarah Jane Bryan
GGG-Grandson
William Thomas Arthur
GGGG-Grandson –
Edgar Wilson Arthur
GGGGG-Grandson
– E. David Arthur