Rebeckah (Collins) Bryant (1674 - 1747)

Born 25 Jun 1674 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Bryant — married 24 Sep 1698 (to 1735) in West Jersey, Province of New Jersey

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1747 at age 72 in Northampton, Burlington, New Jersey

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Rebeckah was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

Rebecca Collins, daughter of Francis Collins and Sarah Mayham Collins, married Thomas Briant in 1698.^[1]

Rebeckah Collins and Thomas Briant declared their intentions of marriage for the first time at Burlington Meeting on 1st 6th mo (Aug) 1698.^[2]

"Rebecca who married Thomas Briant, lived with her husband on his estate near Mount Holly, Burlington county, where he owned a large tract of land. In an affadavit made by this man in 1733... he says that he was born at Shippen Warden, Northampshire, England, in that year sixty-eight years of age, and married Rebecca Collins..."^[3]

Children

1. Elizabeth Briant m. Daniel Haines
2. Sarah Briant m. John Fennimore
3. Ann Briant
4. John Briant
5. Abraham Briant
6. Benjamin Briant

"In the year 1704, Francis Collins conveyed to Thomas Briant and his wife Rebecca, a tract of land containing four hundred acres situate in the "forks" of Timber creek, a short distance west from Chew's Landing. Rebecca survived her husband and died in 1743."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Clement, John. Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey. (Camden, N.J, Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 76
2. ↑ Burlington MM Records. Ancestry. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Image
3. ↑ Clement, p. 79
4. ↑ Clement, p. 79

• Butler, Bryant. The Butler Family of Lebanon, Connecticut (Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT, 1934) Page 98

Research Note

• use to find original Quaker record - Rebecca Collins married Thomas Briant 24 9mo 1698 at the Burlington Meeting House, Burlington County, New Jersey.