Notes for: Morgan BRYAN

A William Smith Bryan was deported from Ireland by the British govt. and sent to VA, America with his wife and children. One son, Francis Bryan, returned to Ireland in 1650 to try and regain title and estates, but was persecuted and fled to Denmark, where he married and where his son Morgan was born in 1671. Morgan and his father Francis returned to Ireland and Francis died in Belfast in 1694. This account also states Morgan's mother Sarah Bringer or Brinker was Danish, also that Morgan's wife Martha Strode was Dutch, but was a Huguenot refugee, and that they met on the crossing, arrived in 1695, and married shortly after arriving and settled near present-day Reading, PA. In 1710 they moved to near Winchester, VA; and in 1748 Morgan and children moved to the Yadkin River area in NC.

Morgan and Martha Bryan had at least 4 descendants who married Boones. Morgan Bryan died in 1763 at the age of 92 and was buried in Joppa Cemetery, aka Burying Ground Ridge, Mocksville, NC.