Col. Thomas Bryan

Dr. Thomas Bryan (Bryant)

DAR Ancestor #: A016356

Noted as Thomas Bryant on DAR Applications. Wife has been corrected to be Sara Hunt.

No rank or duties as a surgeon are noted.

Thomas Bryan inherited his father's Deep Creek property but sold it to his brother William and was living elsewhere in the Settlements at the time of his death in 1777.

Dr. Thomas Bryan
BIRTH 1736 Chester County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
DEATH 1789 (aged 52–53) Surry County, North Carolina, United States
BURIAL Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 189703668

Dr. Thomas Bryan was a son of Morgan Bryan and Martha Strode Bryan. He had, at least, ten siblings. Dr. Bryan married Sarah Hunt, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Hunt before 1757. They had, at least, one child.

The others, starting with Jonathan Bryan, may or may not be the children of Dr. Thomas Bryan and UNKNOWN (maybe Sarah) Hunt Bryan.

They may be the children of Dr. Thomas Bryan and Sarah Stites, if he married her as his second wife.

Children: Jesse Bryan, b: November 1757 Jonathan Bryan, b: October 1766 Mary Bryan, b: April 1796 (likely a typo) Martha Bryan, b: August 1772 Morgan Hunt Bryan, b: December 16, 1774 Thomas Bryan, Jr., b: January 6, 1776 William Bryan, b: January 6, 1776.

Dr. Thomas Bryan served as a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War.

Source: Notable Southern Families, Volume 2 By Zella Armstrong, Janie Preston, Collup French Lookout Publishing Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee Copyright 1922 Page 38 Lists children and birth years, the earliest birth is listed as November 1757, suggesting Dr. Thomas Bryan married UNKNOWN Hunt prior to 1757.

Page 39 "The widow of Dr. Thomas Bryan is said to have married for her second husband the Rev. John Gano, "Fighting Chaplain of the Revolution". She moved to Kentucky, with him in 1792, and was killed by a fall from her horse."

From Christie Van Aken on June 29, 2017: First wife's first name. Indicates Dr. Thomas Bryan died leaving Sarah Hunt Bryan, his widow.

• *This suggests that Dr. Thomas Bryan did not marry Sarah Stites.

From Karyn on July 24, 2019: Source: Biographical memoirs of the late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort (Kentucky), formerly of the city of New York by Gano, John, 1727-1804 Page 123: Rev. John Gano wrote, "Here I found and obtained another companion. She was the widow of Captain Thomas Bryant, and daughter of Colonel Jonathan Hunt."

From cindy hall on February 17, 2020: “according to the Seven Sons and Two Daughters of Morgan Bryan book, vol. 2, part 2, book 4, Thomas was killed around December 1776 while crossing the Yadkin River on a military mission. at the feb 1777 term of rowan county court, Sarah Hunt (Bryan) was appointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, Thomas Bryan.”

Parents

Morgan Bryan 1671–1763
Martha Strode Bryan 1697–1762

Spouse

Sarah Hunt Bryan

• Joseph Bryan 1720–1805
• James Bryan 1723–1807 (m. 1756)
• Ellender Nellie Bryan Linville 1729–1772
• William Bryan 1734–1780
• Sarah Morgan Grace Bryan Bailey 1739–1789

GEDCOM Source

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Thomas was the youngest son of Morgan Bryan, a surgeon in Washington's army. It was at his suggestion and request that Daniel Mississippi and, afterward known as an explorer, visited the wilds west of North Carolina and discovered Kentucky. Rebecca Bryan, his brother, married a sister of Daniel Boone, who married Rebecca Bryan, nice of Colonel Thomas Bryan. After the revolution he practiced medicine in Mississippi and died in North Carolina. His widow who was a daughter of Colonel Johnathan Hunt, married Rev. John Gano, and removed with him to Kentucky about 1800. Children of Colonel Thomas Bryan were Jesse, Johnathan, Morgan, William, Thomas, and Martha.