Ann Bryan

Please don't confuse her husband Lewis Bryan with his uncle Lewis, who married Elizabeth (Hunter?).

See notes on his profile:

Lewis Bryan, I

Ann may be the daughter of FRANCIS BRYAN and RACHEL BURCHETT (but this is unproven-please consider it a working theory).

After her husband's death, Ann (Bryan?) Bryan married Simon Herring.

Deeds and records at link:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=7213&id=I...

[link not working as of 3/25/2018--here's hoping the site comes back soon!]

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BRYAN FAMILY - CRAVEN ESTATE RECORDS

Abstracted & Compiled by Sue Guptill and Martha Mewborn Marble

LEWIS BRYAN ESTATE

1752 - estate sale 11 August 1752 - ANN BRYAN administrator - buying among others - ANN BRYAN, JOHN SUTTON (Negro Famer or Tamer), HARDY BRYAN, HARDY BUSH -

NOTE - this appears to be a Trent River family based on names buying from estate.

NOTE: The names of the Lenoir Co Suttons and the Bryans are very similar. I wonder if there was an intermarriage.

NOTE: Simon Herring, b. ca 1709, IOW, Va., son of John Herring and Catherine Morbe, married ca. 1735 to Ann ___?___. Proof that he was John's son has been established by a promissory note 1 Jan, 1753. He was granted 629 acres of land on east side of Bear Creek in Craven County 1 March, 1738 (later Johnston and Dobbs County) A Craven County deed of April 9, 1768 links him to wife Ann. Acquired land in Duplin, Sampson, and New Hanover counties as well as Craven and Dobbs. Appears on a 1769 Dobbs tax roll, so he was still living at that time.

Headright records of 6 April 1745 show six whites and four blacks, but only one son has been proved --also named Simon Herring, who married his cousin, Rachel Herring about 1776. (Rachel was the daughter of Jacob Herring, who is on my Herring line.) There was a grandson named Simon as well. 1777. Above Info from Francis Hodges. Ann, remarried Simon Herring. If she had children by Lewis, they were probably raised in Dobbs Co.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/craven/wills/bryanests.txt