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Smith, D. Alden, "The Descendants of Stephen Bryant of Plymouth, and of His Son-in-law Lt. John Bryant of Plympton," (Concluded), NEHGR, Volume 155 (2001), pp. 189-211.

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28. STEPHEN4 BRYANT (David3, Stephen2-1) was born at Biddeford, Maine, 8 March 1724 and died there 9 April 1814.[903] He married there, 20 August 1756, LYDIA WHITNEY.[904] He may be the Stephen Bryant of Pepperellborough in the 1790 census with one free white male over 16, two free white males under 16, and four free white females.[905]
Children (list perhaps incomplete):
  1. STEPHEN5 BRYANT, bp. 1 May 1757; d. at Saco, Me., in 1823;[906] m. (int.) there, 8 Nov. 1778, MIRIAM DAVIS, bp. at Biddeford 7 Nov. 1756, daughter of Josiah and Susanna (Webber) Davis.[907] As Stephen Bryant, Jr. of Buxton, he served in the Revolutionary War as a private, Capt. Benjamin Hooper's co., enlisted 17 July 1775, service six months, stationed at Biddeford.[908] In 1790 he was listed at Saco as Stephen Bryant, Jr. with two free white males over 16, two under 16, and six females.[909] His name appears on a list of Revolutionary War pensioners, in which he is described as living at Saco in 1820, aged 63, infirm. He had no income other than the pension, and lived in a small rented house with no possessions except some furniture. He lived with wife Miriam whowas very sick, their daughter Paulina, 27, and Paulina's four children, her husband having left her.[910] Bryant children, born and married at Saco unless otherwise noted.[911] 1. Susanna6, bp. 10 Sept. 1780,[912] m. 14 April 1804, Robert Gray. 2. (possibly) Elizabeth, b. ca. 1782/3; m. 4 Mar. 1798, Richard
  903 Smith-Bryant [note 3], 128.
  904 Maine Historical & Genealogical Recorder, 6 [1889]: 296.
  905 1790 Census, Maine [note 837], 65.
  906 'Maine Historical & Genealogical Recorder, 7 [1893]: 9; Fisher, Soldiers, Sailors, & Patriots [note 819], 96.
  907 Records of the First Church of Pepperellborough (Saco, Me.: York Institute, 1914), 41; Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis 1753-1832 of Limington, Maine (Portland: The Anthoensen Press, 1956), 28.
  908 Mass. Soldiers and Sailors [note 518], 2:738.
  909 1790 Census, Maine [note 837], 65.
  910 Paul R. White, Jr., "Maine Estate Schedules from Revolutionary War Pensions," Register', 142 [1988]: 199-200.
  911 Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlement and Families [note 5], 527.
  912 Records of the First Church of Pepperellborough [note 907], 24.

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    McGrath913 3. Miriam, b. 30 June 1785; m. 29 July 1806, Andrew Long. 4. James, b. 9 Mar. 1787; d. 29 Dec. 1828; m. 29 May 1808, Hannah Whitney, b. 10 June 1790, d. 1838. 5. Lydia, b. 9 Jan. 1787 [sic - prob. 1789]. 6. Sarah, b. 8 Dec. 1791. 7. Paulina, b. 13 Nov 1793. 8. Foxwell C., b. 9 April 1797; d. at Saco, Me., in 1892; m. 23 Mar. 1815, Elizabeth Adams of Limerick.914 He resided at Saco.915 9. Eunice, b. 12 Dec 1799. 10. Elizabeth, b. 20 Dec 1801. 11. Stephen, b. 20 Sept. 1803.
  1. DAVID BRYANT, b. 28 Nov. 1761; bp. at Biddeford, Me., 30 May 1762;916 d. 6 Mar. 1825; married SARAH -----, who d. 27 Dec. 1822. Bryant children:917 1. Sarah6, b. 17 July 1787. 2. John, b. 20 Aug. 1789, prob. m. 1 April 1814, Sally Whitney. 3. William, b. 5 July 1792. 4. Daniel, b. 22 Oct. 1793. 5. Thomas, b. 1 Dec 1796, m. Sally Cowen.918 6. Mark, b. 22 June 1798; m. Mary Goodwin. 7. Hannah, b. 4 June 1800. 8. Mary, b. 30 April 1803. 9. Dorcas (twin), b. 4 Mar. 1805. 10. Isaac (twin), b. 4 Mar. 1805.
  2. LYDIA BRYANT; m. 24 May 1781, JAMES RAWLINS.919
  913 Ibid., 50.
  914 Ruth Gray, ed., Maine Families in 1790 (Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1988- ), 2:1.
  915 A. S. Bryant, Bryant [note 3], 92.
  916 Maine Historical & Genealogical Recorder, 7 [1893]:82.
  917 Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements and Families [note 5], 528-29.
  918 Smith-Bryant [note 3], 139; A. S. Bryant, Bryant [note 3], 93.
  919 Records of the First Church of Pepperellborough [note 907], 42.

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[BRYANT ADDITIONS]
154: 489 [no. 25.ii.] RICHARD5 BRYANT. He married at Groton, Massachusetts, 16 April 1789,[1176] MARY WHITNEY, born at Harvard, Massachusetts, 15 May 1766;[1177] died at Waterford, Maine, 6 May 1841, age 76, daughter of Phineas and Keziah (Farnsworth) Whitney. Richard Bryant was among the volunteers from Harvard who served in Capt. William Sawyer's Company, Massachusetts Militia, from 23 January to 21 February 1787, during Shay's Rebellion.[1178] He and his family were part of a small migration from Harvard to Waterford, Maine in the late 1780s.[1179] The family is enumerated there in the 1790 Census.[1180] He died there, 10 August 1815, age 49. Richard and Mary are buried together in the Elm Vale Cemetery, South Waterford, though she may be the Mrs. Mary Bryant of Waterford who married there, 21 January 1822, Jonathan Houghton, Esq., of Waterford.
Children, recorded at Waterford, Maine:[1181]

  1176 Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1927), 2:33; Intention published at Harvard, Mass. (Vital Records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 [Boston, 1917], 142; hereafter Harvard VRs.)
  1177 Harvard VRs, 115.
  1178 Henry S. Nourse, History of the Town of Harvard, Massachusetts 1732-1893 (Harvard, 1894), 141.
  1179 Ibid., 138.
  1180 Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 (Washington, 1908), 25.
  1181 The History of Waterford, Oxford County, Maine (Portland: Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1879), 237; Waterford VRs, 1798-1862, kept by the town clerk (FHL microfilm 12,625). References supplied by Mr. Ted Chadbourne of Cumberland Center, Me., a descendant.

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  1. SALLY6 BRYANT, b. 1789; m. JOSEPH McALISTER.
  2. NANCY BRYANT, b. 1791; m. JACOB FRENCH.
  3. MARY/POLLY BRYANT, b. 1793; m. JOSEPH SAUNDERSON.
  4. BETSEY BRYANT, b. 1795; m. COL. JOHN SAUNDERSON.
  5. GEORGE BRYANT, b. 1797; d. at Waterford, 6 Feb. 1883, age 86; m. NANCY CHUBB, who d. there 2 April 1847, age 47y 8m.
  6. MELINDA BRYANT, b. 1799; m. DEA. HENRY HOUGHTON.
  7. ELIZA BRYANT, b. 1802; m. EBEN PLUMMER.
  8. PEREZ BRYANT, b. 1804; d. at Waterford, 20 Feb. 1879, age 74y 5m; m. CAROLINE MOORE.
  9. JOHN BRYANT, b. 1808; m. ELIZABETH HAPGOOD.

Ullmann, Helen Schatvet, and Kathryn Smith Black, "Some Marriages from Records of the First Congregational Church in Thompson, Connecticut, 1796-1850, Including Some Corrections to the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records," NEHGR 155 (2001), pp. 295-317

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Nov. 23 1834   Lorenzo Mason and Emily Whitney both of Hopkinton, Mass. [Barbour and TBR say 27 Nov.; the 3 in 23 in Dow could be mistaken for a rounded 7]

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Sept. 25 1842   Caleb N. Whiting [Whitney in Barbour; probably Whitney in TVR but uncertain] and Rhoda D. Manly, both of Mendon, Mass.

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