John Bryant (1592 - 1638)

Born 28 May 1592 in Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Grace Wayford — married 1608 in England

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1638 at age 45 in Taunton, Plymouth Colony, New England

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Bob Carson [send private message] and Darin Neves [send private message]

• Note: Parents attached to this profile are now verified see ref. below.

Biography

John Bryant was born about 1590-1592 in Kent England. He married Anne Unknown and had three boys, Thomas, Stephen, and John jr.

John died before 1630 although some people connect him to a John Bryant who died 28 Apr 1638 in Bristol, Massachusetts

Among the family friends and neighbors was a lawyer named John Doane, a widower with a son also named John. John Doane offered to give Anne's three lads a chance in the New World if she would marry him and go there with him. John was a capable man, highly regarded, and his influence would give the three Bryant boys opportunities they otherwise would not find. So Anne consented. The six of them boarded a little ship known as the Handmaid, on August 10, 1630 and two months later, October 29, 1630, they landed in Plymouth Colony.

Following a practice common in those days, John and Anne bound out two of the Bryant boys to good friends. Thomas Bryant was bound out to Samuel Eddy, and Stephen Bryant to John Shaw. Offering boys financial opportunities and connections independent of, and supplementary to those, which their own parents could offer them as they grew up. The third Bryant boy, John, being the youngest, stayed with his mother and stepfather.

John arrived in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1637. It is said that he added the "t" to name making it Bryant. He was known as John Bryan of Tor Brian. Grace is the only one I have information on him being married to, they had three boys Thomas, Stephen and John, all born in England. Records from Heritage Consulting. Millennium File shows his death as 28 Apr 1638 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. John and Grace Wayford were married in 1608 when she was 26 years old.

2. Parents : John Bryant b: Abt 1553 in Bampton ,Co. Devonshire, England and Rose Churchb: abt 1555 in Erles Colne, Essex, England. Married: Grace Wayford b: abt 1582 in Bampton, Co. Devonshire, England.

Lineage from Colonial Families of the USA^[1]

John Bryant of Tor Brian m. Rose his eldest son

John Bryant of Tor Brian m. Grace Wrayford. "He was ancestor of:"

John Bryant of Bampton. Will proved 1641. His eldest son:

Thomas Bryant of Bampton. Will proved 1625. His eldest son:

Thomas Bryant, planter of Barbadoes. Emigrated 1634. m. 1618 Martha Chaplin

• Analysis of this Lineage, and giving the shortest time between generations (20 years). Thomas of Barbadoes b. say 1598. Thomas of Bampton b. say 1578 d. 1625. John of Bampton b. say 1558 d. 1641. John of Tor Brian m. Grace Wrayford was born 1538 or earlier. This is not the John who migrated to New England.

4th June 1638. John Bryant Will and Inventory.
Richard Paule and William Scadding testified under oath, 4 Jun 1638, that John Bryant died at Cohannack in New Plymouth the xxviii^th day of April in the fourteenth year of the Reign of Charles. Two days before his death he declared his last will and testament in the hearing of Paule and Scadding. "That he gave all his goods and chattells unto John Bryant his naturall sonn (except one platter and a kettle wch he bequeathed to Richard Paule and desired That mr John Gilbert would take the same goods into his hands for his said sonns use and ymploy them to the best advantage of his said sonn and pay himself out of the said goods for any charges he should be at about the same." His inventory included woodworkers tools^[2][3]

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: John /Bryant/^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 Vol II page 151. link at ancestry.
2. ↑ "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories." The Mayflower Descendant. 2:210, 211 [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12166/210/137483348 link Americanancestors ($)
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-VS59  : 5 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 41 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Page 31-32
4. ↑ Source: #S-2050775272 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=17913036&pid=833489070 NOTE: Dead link as of Feb 20, 2017

• Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 Vol II page 151. link at ancestry. This is an entirely different line of Bryants. Thomas became a planter in Barbadoes c. 1634
• Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 2 Lineage. same as above.
• Heritage Consulting, Millennium Film[database on-line], Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.
• England, Birth and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family Search, 2013. For birth of Thomas Bryant son of Grace Bryant and John Bryant. Note: I searched Family Search for Thomas Bryant born in England, son of John and Grace. There were no hits in the appropriate time frame. Searched at Ancestry same source title. Loacated nothing in the appropriate time frame. B-404 20:59, 28 January 2018 (EST)
• John Bryant in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration List Index, 1500s-1900s. Source Publication Code: 1262.
• "John Bryant of Scituate, MA and his Descendants" Mass Pioneers, by Pope, p 76: ie. Pope, Charles Henry. The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. (Boston, C.H. Pope, 1900). Text: John Sen., Scituate. died at Cohannack (Taunton) 28 April 1638. Will probated 17 Jun 1638, leaving all to son John except one small bequest to Richard Paul. [See Register IV 36]
• New Hamp. Gen., Vol 3 p 1149. ??
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862. Vol 1 p. 283
  • BRYANT, JOHN, Scituate 1639, m. 14 Nov. 1643, Mary, d. of George Lewis of Barnstable, had John, b. 17 Aug. 1644; Hannah, 25 Jan. 1646, m. 1665, John Stodder of Hingham; Joseph, 1646, d. young; Sarah, 29 Sept. 1648; Mary, 24 Feb. 1650, d. young; Martha, 26 Feb. 1652; and Samuel, 6 Feb. 1654. His w. d. 2 July 1655, and he m. 22 Dec. 1657, Elizabeth d. of Rev. William Wetherell, wh. d. soon; and in 1664 he m. Mary, d. of Thomas Hiland, had Elizabeth 1665; Benjamin, 1669; Joseph, again, 1671; Jabez, 1672; Ruth, 1673; Thomas, 1675; Deborah, 1677; Agatha, 1678; Ann, 1680; and Elisha, 1682. He was rep. 1677-8, and his will was dat. 1684.
    • JOHN, Scituate, s. of John of the same, had John, b. 1677; Jonathan, 1679; Mary, 1682; David, 1684; Joshua, 1687; Samuel,1689; and Martha, 1691.
    • SAMUEL, Scituate, s. of first John, d. in the strange expedit. of Sir William Phips against Quebec.
    • THOMAS, Scituate, s. of first John, a man of distinct. rep. 1725, 30, 3, and 4, was f. of Rev. Lemuel, H. C. 1739, a disting. man of Braintree.
• WikiTree profile Bryant-898 created through the import of 2010-09-14.ged on Jul 28, 2011 by Bob Carson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Bob and others.

• Source: S-2050775272 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;; Note: Ancestry Family Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.