TWELFTH GENERATION

2804. Morgan BRYAN was born in 1671 in Denmark. He died in 1763. He was married to Martha STRODE in 1719 in Chester Co., PA.⁽⁶⁾ He was a member of the New Garden Quaker community in PA as early as 1719. In 1724 he moved to the west into Pequea Creek district (present-day Lancaster PA). In 1730 he and Alexander Ross, another Quaker from New Garden, purchased one hundred thousand acres of land on the waters of Qpequon Creek (near present day Winchester VA). In 1734 Morgan Bryan purchased a tract in present day Berkley Co., WVA and there he settled with his family. In 1748 Bryan moved himself and his large family to North Carolina where he made his home near the south bank of the Deep Creek and was one of the most prominent settlers in north western North Carolina

2805. Martha STRODE was born in 1678. She died after 1762. Children were:

1402 i. Joseph BRYAN.

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