(1) William Bryan was killed by the Indians in Kentucky.
William Bryan (b. 1733; d. 7 May 1780), son of Morgan and Martha (Strode) Bryan, and uncle of Rebecca Bryan, who married Daniel Boone. (See the Bryan Family Sketch.)
The little settlement suffered many setbacks due to Indian raids, so Mrs. Bryan (Mary Boone) did not go to Kentucky to live until the fall of 1779. (d & e) It is quite possible that in the party of kindred and neighbors who settled there, were also William Bryant and his wife, Rachael Wilcoxson (Wilcox), daughter of John and Sarah (Boone) Wil-coxson (Wilcox), and this may be the reason why confusion has arisen regarding the name of the station, sometimes called "Bryant's."
MARY BOONE, (Squire; George3), born 3 Nov., (0. S.) or 14 Nov. (N. S.) 1736 (a); died 1819, aged 83. (b)
Married in Rowan Co., North Carolina, William Bryan (b. 1733; d. 7 May 1780), son of Morgan and Martha (Strode) Bryan, and uncle of Rebecca Bryan, who married Daniel Boone. (See the Bryan Family Sketch.)
After several years residence in N. C. where all of their children were born, they moved to Kentucky, and settled at Bryan's Station, which William and his brothers founded. This station was located on Elkhorn Creek, Fayette Co., near where the historic battle of Blue Licks took place in Aug., 1782. (c)
Here on 7 May, 1780, William Bryan died from wounds received during an encounter with Indians while hunting with a party on 1 May.
(e)
It is said that Mary (Boone) Bryan afterwards married Gen. Charles
Smith, of Harrison Co., Ky., but some of her descendants deny there
was a second marriage. (f)
kik Concerning the Bryan migration it may be well to quote here from Draper Mss. 22 C 14, an interview with Daniel Bryan, son of William
and Mary (Boone) Bryan, held about 1844 or '45, by Rev. John D. Shane, who died in Cincinnati. Dr. Draper afterward bought Rev. Shane's notes.
p. 17. "My father William Bryan came out as far as Holston (1776) and there taking sick, turned back, but sent on the negroes, two men. (My father sent out two negroes with the company that settled first at Bryan's Station to open the place). The station was named after himself (my father) and several of his brothers, but he was the principal. Each man had two acre lots.
"A part of the company that was out in 1776, including my father and myself and some others, now came on again in the spring of 1779, put up some cabins and houses and stokaded a little fort. My brother Samuel Bryan, Mr. Wm. Grant and Mr. Stephen Jones, brought their families out in the spring.
"I came out in 1779to make corn at Bryan's in order to make corn for my father to move his family there in 1779 (April).* * The Station was commenced in a short time. Cabins were built, but not more than a half dozen. I think there were only four, but some of them were double cabins. The space between was stokaded. The enclosure at first was only about thirty yards square, oblong east and west. In the fall it was enlarged to upwards of 100 yards, making near 200 yards in all, length, that fall and spring. But this was not all stokaded in until after Martin's and Ruddle's were taken in the fall of 1780."
p. 28. "In the fall of 1780, after the attack on Martin's and Ruddle's Stations, my mother returned from the troubles of Ky., to the troubles of N. C. The man who bought our place in North Carolina was from Virginia. He hadn't paid for the place, and was anxious to give it up, that he might get rid of the difficulties with the British and Tories and return to Virginia. We traded to him the pack-horses that we had returned to Carolina on, for the truck and corn, and then we remained there in the old house until the fall of 1785. We then came back to Ky., and lived in Daniel Boone's house on Marble Creek (the one he left to go a mile, etc.). Many others with my mother (had) dispersed, some to Va., and some to N. C. and perhaps all would have done so if they had possessed the means. The Station, however, recruited after a time, and so strengthened as to enable them to withstand the Big Siege."
A similar record was left by Geo. Bryan of Paris, Bourbon Co., Ky., born 15 Feb., 1758, son of Morgan Bryan, and a cousin of Daniel Bryan. This record is found in Draper Mss. 22 C 16.
CHILDREN:- (d)
+110 Samuel Bryan, b. 1756.
111 Daniel Boone Bryan, b. 11 Feb., 1758.
112 William Bryan, killed by Indians at Bryan's Station in same encounter in which his father received his death wounds.
113 Phebe Bryan, m. - Bryan.
114 Hannah Bryan.
115 John Bryan.
+116 Sarah Bryan, b. 1763 or '69.
117 Abner Bryan.
118 Elizabeth Bryan.
119 Mary Bryan.
William Bryan, killed by Indians at Bryan's Station in same encounter in which his father received his death wounds.
SAMUEL BRYAN (Mary' Boone; Squire; Georges), born 1756, in North Carolina; died 4 Mar., 1837.
Married 5 Oct., 1775, in Rowan Co., N. C., Mary Hunt, daughter of Col. Jonathan and wife Isabella Hunt.
He was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. In July, 1777, he enlisted in Virginia; received the rank of Colonel and served at various times for nine months. He served under Captains William Bayley Smith, John Holder, William Hogan and Benjamin Logan in Gen. George R. Clarke's Expeditions in North Carolina. Under J. Johnson and James Stinson, he fought in battles with the Indians at Pequa Towns. At the time of enlistment he lived in Rowan Co., N. C., and at date of application for pension he resided in Marion Co., Ind., where, in 1834, he and his wife Mary Bryan lived with their sons, Luke and Thomas. (a)CHILDREN:-
414 Ann Bryan.
415 Phoebe Bryan.
416 William Bryan.
417 Abner Bryan.
418 Luke Bryan, b. 2p Nov., 1784; m. 1807, Mary Sanders, dau. of Sarah and Capt. John Sanders.
419 Thomas Bryan.
420 Sarah Bryan.
421 Mary Bryan.
422 Daniel Bryan.
423 Hampton Bryan.
424 Samuel Bryan.
REFERENCE
(a) Pension Application, U. S. Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
DANIEL B. BRYAN (111ary5 Boone; Squire; Georges), born 11 Feb., 1758, in North Carolina; died 28 Feb., 1845, in Fayette Co., Ky. Married Elizabeth Turner.
He was a Revolutionary soldier; his name is on the Revolutionary Pension Roll, of 1833, at which time he lived in Scott Co., Ky. Much of the Boone material from the Draper Mss. which is quoted in this book was obtained from his letters, which have been preserved.
CHILDREN :-
+425 Joseph Bryan.
+426 Samuel Bryan.
William Chinn (b. 1768; d. Feb., 1814), son of Richard C. Chinn and wife Rhoda Dent of Albermarle Co., Va. Residence, Fayette Co., Ky.
SARAH BRYAN (Marys Boone; Squire; Georges), born 1768-'69; died 8 Aug., 1829.
Married 1792 at Bryan's Station, Ky. (Col.) William Chinn (b. 1768; d. Feb., 1814), son of Richard C. Chinn and wife Rhoda Dent of Albermarle Co., Va. Residence, Fayette Co., Ky.
CHILDREN:-
427 Sarah Chinn, m. Capt. Graves; res. Bay of St. Louis, La. +428 Franklin B. Chinn, b. 1800.
429 William B. Chinn, wounded at River Raisin.
430 Nancy B. Chinn, d. 1855 or 1856, m. Willis Arnold.
431 Morgan B. Chinn, b. 1801; d. 1870.
432 John F. Chinn.
433 Alfred S. Chinn, mortally wounded at River Raisin.
434 Rhoda D. Chinn, m. Preston Morgan.
435 Elizabeth Chinn, m. 1830, Frank Speers.
Morgan B. Chinn, b. 1801; d. 1870.
William B. Chinn, wounded at River Raisin.
Alfred S. Chinn, mortally wounded at River Raisin.
Rhoda D. Chinn, m. Preston Morgan
425. JOSEPH BRYAN (Daniels; Mary' Boone; Squires; Georges). Married Mary Cartmell.
CHILDREN :-
Possibly a daughter Sallie Bryan (See D. A. R. Lineage Books, Nat. number 26043.)
+1226 Joseph Henry Bryan.
References:
(1) Information supplied by Susanne Hawkins, Prodigy # CDND60A.