Mary Boone

Mary married Peter Burris Tribble on 8 Oct 1793. Peter was born on 8 Mar 1774; died on 18 Mar 1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Matilda Tribble was born on 1 May 1808 in Madison Co, Kentucky; died about 1865.

George married Nancy Ann Linville about 1764. Nancy (daughter of William Linville and Eleanor (Ellender)^ Bryan) was born in 1744 in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia; died on 28 Mar 1814 in Richmond, Shelby Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Squire Boone came to America in 1713 when he was 18 with a brother and a sister. The three were sent by their father, George Boone of the town of Bradninch, near Exeter, England. The Boones were members of the Society of Friends. The wento the town of Abington, twelve miles north of Philadelphia. (From the book, DANIEL BOONE, by John Mack Faragher in 1992.
(WFT V 2, 3979)

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Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina.

They had the following children: Sarah Cassandra, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Jacob, Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.
(findagrave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8318855 )

Squire married Sarah Morgan on 23 Jul 1720 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)) was born in 1700 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1777 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Linville participated in the famous Cresap Affair challenging Maryland's claim to Pennsylvania. Disguising himself as a native American and brandishing a weapon William and a group of several others tried to scare Thomas Cresap off the land which Cresap claimed as Maryland's territory and the Linvilles, Hendricks and others claimed as Pennsylvania's.

Within a year, sometime between 1733 and 1735, William developed a close association with Morgan Bryan's family, marrying Morgan's daughter Ellender Bryan and then moved with older brother Thomas Linville and his wife Hannah to an uninhabited 1500 acres of land around what became known as Linville Creek, VA. In the 1730s no more than a handful of families joined them at this place within sight of what would develop into the Great Wagon Road of migration a decade later.


Died:
Killed by Indians
report came in the South Carolina Gazette in Sept, 1766,

One William Linville, his son and another young man, who had gone over the mountains at the head of the Yadkin River to hunt, were there surprised by some Indians. The father and son were both killed on the spot, the other young man got off though much wounded and arrived at his settlement.
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In an interview with William Linville's grandson, Capt. Samuel Boone, son of his daughter Nancy, reported that William had had a premonition about his death:

The elder Linville aroused the young men just before morning, and bid them hasten away, or they would be massacred by the Indians.... "I have just dreamed that the Indians came up and massacred us. The circumstance was so vividly infused in my mind that I feel this it is a warning. So you escape and save yourselves. I am too feeble to make the attempt." The words had scarcely died upon his lips, and before the young men had time to make the least movement, when the Indians...now fired a volley and shot - killing the two Linvilles.

Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
24 Oct 1998

William married Eleanor (Ellender)^ Bryan in 1733 in Virginia. Eleanor (daughter of Morgan Bryan and Martha Strode) was born in 1722 in Chester Co, Pennsylvania; died on 21 Oct 1772 in Rowan Co, North Carolina or Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Name: William Linville
Gender: Male
Birth Place: PA
Birth Year: 1710
Spouse Name: Eleanor Bryan
Spouse
Birth Place: PA
Spouse Birth Year: 1722
Marriage
Year: 1733 (Eleanor was 11 years old!)
Marriage State: VA
Number Pages: 1

Notes:

GRANDFATHER OF DANIEL BOONE [There are no grave markers as the Quakers did not believe in them.]

from the Boone Genealogy as written by James Boone, March 21st, 1788 - now in the archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society:
George Boone, III, (son of George & Sarah Boone) was born at STOAK (a village near the city of Exeter) in A.D. 1666, being a Weaver; his Wife's Maiden Name was MARY MAUGRIDGE, who was born in BRADNINCH (eight Miles from the City of Exeter) in the Year 1669, being a Daughter of John Maugridge & Mary his Wife whose Maiden Name was MILTON. They (the said George & Mary Boone) had nine Children that lived to be Men and Women: namely, George, Sarah, Squire, Mary, John, Joseph, Benjamin, James & Samuel, having each of them several children, excepting John was was never married. The said George and Mary Boone with their Family, came from the Town of Bradninch in Devonshire, Old-England (which is a Town at 8 miles Distance from the city of Exeter, and 177 measured Miles Westward from London); they left Bradninch the 17 Aug. 1717, and went to Bristol where they took Shipping, and arrived at Philadelphia in 1717 September 19, Old-Stile, or October 10th New-Stile; three of their Children, to wit, George, Sarah & Squire they sent in a few Years before. From Philadelphia they went to Abingdon, and staid a few Months there; thence to North-Wales, and liv'd about 2 Years there; then to Oley in the same County of Philadelphia, where Sarah (being married) had moved to some Time before. This last Place of their Residence (since the Divisions made in the Township of Oley & County of Philadelphia) is called the Township of Exeter in the County of Berks: It was called Exeter, because they came from a Place near the City of Exeter. And, He the said George Boone the Third, died on the Sixth Day of the Week, near 8 o'clock in the morning, on the 27th of July 1744, aged 78 years; and Mary hi wife died on the 2d Day of the Week, on the 2d of February 1740-1, aged 72 years; and were decently interred in Friends Burying-Ground, in the said Township of Exeter. When he died, he left 8 Children, 52 Grand-Children, and 10 Great-Grand-Children, LIVING, in all 70, being as many Persons as the House of Jacob which came into EGYPT.
(bio by: Alice Huitt Preston)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7232409

George married Mary Milton Maugridge on 16 Aug 1689 in Brandich, Devonshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Maugridge and Mary Milton) was born on 23 Sep 1669 in Bradnich, near Exeter, Devonshire, England; died on 2 Feb 1741 in Exeter Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania; was buried in Exeter Friends Cem, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 5 Dec 2011; ancestors

Notes:

THE MORGAN LOG HOUSE -- This 1695 medieval, 2 1/2 story log house, the only one of its kind still surviving in America, was built by grandparents of Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, and forebears of General Daniel Morgan famed Revolutionary War raider." In this house the American roots of a distinguished family tree were planted. Besides Morgan offspring, Rittenhouse, Morris, Roberts, Lloyd, Robeson and Hanks are family names on its branches. The latter being ancestors of Abraham Lincoln, Lowell Thomas, the explorer, broadcaster-author, is a descendant. Eminent local Morgans include Walter L. Morgan, a pioneer in the mutual fund industry, founder of the Willington Fund and Wellington Mgt. Co., manager of 14 Vanguard funds. This cabin erected on an 800 acre site by well-to-do Welch Quaker Edward Morgan. Near Gwynedd, PA, site of historic William Penn Inn, The Morgan House adjoins Valley Force road and Allentown Road. The latter was the escape route taken by those escorting the Liberty Bell to be hidden in Allentown's Zion Church. Morgan House is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. Tel: (215) 368-2480. Edward Morgan's son, Morgan, had built a house on 197 acres of the original 800 acres in 1718.

Edward Morgan and Elizabeth, his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 8, page 329).

The ancestry of Edward Morgan, progenitor of the Morgan family of Montgomery County, Penn., and grandfather of explorer Daniel Boone & Edward Boone, is still a matter of speculation. One of the most objective analyses of the identity and family of Edward Morgan was made some fifty years ago by Mrs. Hazel Atterbury Spraker, in her book, THE BOONE FAMILY. Excerpts from this source are as follows:

"There is an early record which states that "Edward Morgan and Elizabeth his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.8,page 329)

"Another Edward Morgan, recorded in Radnor Monthly Meeting, was born in Merionithshire, Wales, 25 August 1679; was a son of Cadwalader Morgan, and came to Pennsylvania with his parents."

"A third Edward Morgan is referred to by Thomas Allen Glenn in his Wlesh Founders of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, page 1, in which it is stated that Edward Morgan of near Bala, Co. Merionithshire, a tailor, had a son named Morgan who removed to Gwynedd, PA, about 1700 and was a freeholder of 800 acres of land in Gwynedd, died in Towamencin, 1727, leaving a wife Dorothy.

A fourth record of an Edward Morgan is found in a "History of the Family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to Present Times," by James Appleton Morgan, New York (1897-1902). In this it is stated that Edward Morgan was the son of Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnum, and wife, Lady Alice Hopoton; that Edward came to America with his sister Sarah, wife of Stephen Beasley, married Margaret --- and had a daughter Sarah Morgan who married Squire Boone. No authority is given for this last statement. In this book the ancestry is carried back through many royal lines to as early as the year 605.

At this late date it seems impossible to determine which, if any of the above Edward Morgans was the father of Sarah, and hence the grandfather of Daniel Boone. Althought his ancestry, his early life and the name of his wife, may always remain in obscurity, we yet have a brief history of the later life and children of Edward of Gwynedd, as given in "Historical Collections of Gwynedd by Howard Jenkins, page 410." This history of Edward Morgan reads as follows:

"The first settler in Gwynedd or its vicinity named Morgan, was Edward. He seems to have been here as early as 1704, as the road upward through Gwynedd, made in that year, was to go as far as his place. He was a tailor by trade, a Welshman by birth, no doubt, and probably advanced in years when he came. He had lived previously near Philadelphia. In February, 1708, he bought 300 acres of land in what is now Towamencin, of Griffith Jones, merchant, Philadelphia. The tract lay along William John's land, and was therefore on the township line. In 1714 he bought 500 acres more, nearby, of George Claypool of Philadelphia, who, like Griffith Jones,was a speculative holder of Towamencin lands. By 1713 he had apparently moved to Montgomery; in the deed from Claypool he is described as a "yeoman of Montgomery."

Edward Morgan no doubt had several children. His sons probably received and held the Towamencin lands. In the list of 1734, for that township there appear: Joseph Morgan, 200 acres, Daniel Morgan, 200; John Morgan, 100. In 1727, Morgan Morgan of Towamencind died leaving a will in which he mentions his wife Dorothy, his brothers Joseph, John and William, his two sons Edward and Jesse (both minors), and his niece Elizabeth, John's daughter."

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another study of Edward Morgan here:
http://wgscroggins.kueber.us/Morgan01%20Edward%20(1670-1732).pdf



Research Notes:
Tree at Rootsweb that has these ancestors.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rlgabriel-2&id=I6175
Tree name Gabriel Jones Family
curious that there are no Loveladys or Bounds

Edward married Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) about 1686 in Gwynedd, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Margaret was born about 1670 in Radnor, Delaware Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1730 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1682, Penn Colony, Pennsylvania
• Immigration: 1682, Fletching, Sussex, England

Notes:

The story of this historical marker begins with the story of children.

Two young boys, ages about 3 and 5, left their home in Fletching, Sussex, England to embark on an adventure that 300 years later would lead their descendants to this place after countless other journeys in between.

John Linville and his younger brother Thomas Linville sailed to Penn's Colony on one of William Penn's 22 ships in the sailing year of 1682-3 along with their mother Mary (Hart) Linville and probably their father Richard. Richard either died at sea or possibly in an epidemic in southern Jersey shortly after they arrived. Before a year was up, their mother remarried to Thomas Baldwin - the first marriage license issued by Penn's Colony.

The young boys, John and Thomas, grew up along Chester Creek in Pennsylvania in their step-father's household. In those times, few children grew to adulthood in a home with both birth parents. Thomas, the youngest son stayed close to that home base for the next 150 years. Even today some of Thomas's descendants still operate a spectacular home/farm/market just 3 miles up Chester Creek from the original Baldwin-Linville home.

But, older son John, only five when he arrived, was more adventurous. He began an association with the local merchants and Indian traders. In 1715, John at age 36 with a family of at least two sons, Thomas and William, whose life we commemorate today with this marker, joined his half- brother Thomas Baldwin and Baldwin in-laws, the Hendricks, in a new adventure - an Indian trading point along the Conestoga River only 45 miles west, but in those days, completely uncharted county. The move of this group to the west represented the first leg of a movement west which would 100 years later become a rallying cry for all young men to go west.

Two things about this move mark a pattern of human behavior in the colonial period. First, where younger brother Thomas's descendants stayed close to home in Pennsylvania for generations, older brother John's descendants were present in every "first" settlement west along the westward migration all the way to Oregon by 1846. That movement west actually began with a move south along the back side of the Appalachians.

The second pattern is that the move west was not done by isolated families as is so often the impression found in history books, but by groups of interrelated families creating large extended families and the foundation of a community which offered the support necessary to sustain a life on the frontier.

Within 15 years of John Linville's move to Conestoga his sons, Thomas, William and John, Jr. were moving again. This time farther west across the Susquehanna River, having learned the basics of frontier survival from their older relatives in the community. That survival included experience in Indian trading, bartering with neighbors and, for the most part lack of governmental oversight.

Son Thomas Linville built a cabin along the Codorus Creek ( now Adams County, PA), on the other side of the Susquehanna from the Conestoga community before 1730 when Penn's government had already forbidden such moves because of agreements with the Susquehanna Indians. Son William Linville participated in the famous Cresap Affair challenging Maryland's claim to Pennsylvania. Disguising himself as a native American and brandishing a weapon William and a group of several others tried to scare Thomas Cresap off the land which Cresap claimed as Maryland's territory and the Linvilles, Hendricks and others claimed as Pennsylvania's.

Within a year, sometime between 1733 and 1735, William developed a close association with Morgan Bryan?s family, marrying Morgan?s daughter Ellender Bryan and then moved with older brother Thomas Linville and his wife Hannah to an uninhabited 1500 acres of land around what became known as Linville Creek, VA. In the 1730s no more than a handful of families joined them at this place within sight of what would develop into the Great Wagon Road of migration a decade later.

Linville Creek was the furthest point south of European settlement on the back side of the Appalachians in the 1730s. Father-in-law Morgan Bryan was still further north in and around what is now Martinsburg, WA and brother John Linville married into the Stephens family and settled half way between the two in what is now near Stephens City, VA. Sister Ann (Linville) Hendricks was still living back at the Codorus in PA.

Such was the pattern of migration in those days, sending part of the family out along the trial, no more than a few days? distance. This made it possible to move family members up and down that trail in times of need, whether it be emotional, economic or safety.

Again, within 15 years of their settlement of Linville Creek, VA, the brothers were on the move south again along the Indian Trail which was fast becoming the Great Wagon Road. This time they left sister Alice and her new husband, Joseph Bryan (William's wife's brother) in Linville Creek and two other sisters still back in PA.

In 1747-8, William and Ellender Linville established a frontier plantation with their Bryan relatives on both side of the Yadkin River in what would become a hub of an active community in the forks of the Yadkin. What is now Blanket Creek and Lassiter Lake was then called Linville Creek, NC, a major geographic marker for all who passed down the Great Wagon Road.

Brother Thomas Linville and his family established a similar family enclave along Belews Creek to the northeast of here, before the Moravian claim was established. Brother John moved even farther to the south to the mouth of the Tyger River, SC, originally called Linville River.

Sisters Alice (Linville) Bryan and Ann (Linville) Hendricks and their families eventually joined the Yadkin enclave 10 years later, at the same time the Boone family caught up with the now thriving community in the forks of the Yadkin. It was Alice's step-daughter, Rebecca Bryan who became Daniel Boone?s wife and William Linville's daughter who married Daniel's brother George.

No matter how convoluted the intermarriages between the Linvilles, Bryans, Boones and Hendricks were, the message of that association was clear. When living on the frontier, you needed the relationships in an extended family to sustain you and the tutelage of survival skills for the younger generation was dependent on the successful older generation which had already been tested in that survival. The Daniel Boone generation had been preceded by 40 years of experience in forging a survival on the frontier and the skills became part of those families legacy to the next generation.

The Rowan County records convey the evidence of William Linville's activities in this early community from hunting wolves to speculating in Lord Granville Grants. Three of those grants - the ones encompassing Tanglewood Park, were his first plantation. A cabin he built, already referred to as old in 1757 when he sold it to John Johnson, stood somewhere near this spot along Linville's Run (now called Johnson's Creek). William then established a plantation directly across the Yadkin, surrounding himself with his in-laws and his sisters' children.

The record is unclear as to William's activities during the skirmishes of the French and Indian War which caused families to move up and down the Great Wagon Road for safety. Both of this brothers John and Thomas died before the end of that period. His wife Ellender and sister Alice outlived all their siblings, and followed the trail to Kentucky laid out by Daniel Boone and others in the extended family.

Sometime in the late summer of 1766, William, along with son John Linville and another young man went up into the mountains 70 miles west of here to hunt and fish. What happened on that trip became immortalize in two ways. The first report came in the South Carolina Gazette in Sept, 1766,

One William Linville, his son and another young man, who had gone over the mountains at the head of the Yadkin River to hunt, were there surprised by some Indians. The father and son were both killed on the spot, the other young man got off though much wounded and arrived at his settlement.

Something about the incident left an indelible imprint in the community, for sometime in the next 20 years, the location of the event became known as Linville River and later Linville Gorge and falls and much later, Linville Falls Wilderness Area.

The scant report of the event was considerably embellished and the details written down for history one hundred years later when Lyman Draper, a famous 19th century historian sought out the descendants of the early migrating families to record their experiences. In an interview with William Linville's grandson, Capt. Samuel Boone, son of his daughter Nancy, reported that William had had a premonition about his death:

The elder Linville aroused the young men just before morning, and bid them hasten away, or they would be massacred by the Indians.... "I have just dreamed that the Indians came up and massacred us. The circumstance was so vividly infused in my mind that I feel this it is a warning. So you escape and save yourselves. I am too feeble to make the attempt." The words had scarcely died upon his lips, and before the young men had time to make the least movement, when the Indians...now fired a volley and shot - killing the two Linvilles.

The story goes on to tell of the surviving, but wounded, young man's attempt to get back to the Linville household for help, eventually reaching son-in-law George Boone who, with others, including probably Daniel Boone, according to the interview, went out to bury the bodies. Local residents near Linville Falls, point to a spot ten miles above the falls where William is buried.

His widow, two remaining sons and grandchildren remained here on the Yadkin until others in the extended family encouraged them to join the settlement of Kentucky, which they did by 1792.

Today, none of William's known descendants still live in the area but hundreds of his brother Thomas's still do and thousands of their descendants live along each stop of the westward movement. The area which commemorates the "Linville Affair" in the Blue Ridge mountains remains a active recreation area, available for many others to pursue some of the same activities in the wilderness that marked most of William's live. But nothing marks his presence at this place where he established an active participation in the early development of the forks of the Yadkin.

This beautiful park remains a fitting memorial for all the families who preserved and cared for it, making it a place of joy, leisure and recreation for thousands. Today we add the Linville name to that list of families by placing this marker recognizing William and his families place in this important first settlement in western North Carolina.

Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
24 Oct 1998

John* married Mrs. (1st wife of John)* Linville about 1702 in Pennsylvania. (1st was born about 1677; died after 1710 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Morgan Bryan, born in Denmark in 1671, Morgan was named for his grandmother and was 12 years old when he moved with his family to Ireland, land of his father's birth. He lived in Ireland for the next 12 years and as a young man of 24 migrated o Pennsylvania in 1695 with his brother William, two years after the death of their father. They first seettled in Chester County and lived here for many years. They might have made contact with their many uncles and aunts who had been in Virginia since 1650, but we have no evidence that they did.

Morgan marrtied Martha Strode. She was reported to have been born in Holland about 1678 (a date we question) and her father was probably Edward Strode, a descendant of a famous English family. Edward was a Protestant exile in Holland and was married in France to a Huguenot. It is believed that edward and his wife died at sea on their way to America and that young Martha together with two brothers, Geremiah and Samuel were bound out until they were of age. This event probably occurred before 24 September 1697 because the will of Edward's father on that date refers to his son as deceased. The marriage date of Morgan and Martha is in question. Once source states 1695 when she would have bene 17, which supposedly was two years before she arrived in Pennsylvania, and another source states 1719, when she would have bene 41, too old to have later had nine children. Since the first child was born about 1719, it is our guess that the birthdate given is too early by at least ten years. It must also be noted that if Morgan's birthdate is correct, he would have been 48 years old when his first child was orn. This is possible, and Martha also could have been his second wife.

Eight of their nine children were born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and as a member of the New Garden Quaker community, Morgan had been a successful trader with the Conestoga Indians.

In 1730, Quakers in Pennsylvania formed a Company under the leadership of Morgan Bryan and Alexander Ross for the purpose of making settlements in Maryland and Virginia. Permission was then gained from the quaker Meeting of Chester County to build a meeting house in Virginia. On 28 October 1730, Governor Gooch of Virginia granted a right to survey and lay out 100,000 acres west of the Opeckon River (just north of present day Winchester, Frederick, County). In 1734, Morgan led a group of Quakers in the building the "Hopewell Monthly Meeting" of Frederick. This settlement flourished for many years at Frederick Town, later named Winchester. Here, where their last child was born, the family lived for over ten years, and son Joseph was first married.

1734 petition for two more meeting houses (Presbyterian) one near Morgan Bryan's home; (this petition was signed by James Cole and William Rentfroe)

Sometime about 1745/46 Morgan moved with his wife and eight children up the Shenandoah Valley to the Big Lick at the head of the Roanoke River where land was more plentiful. His oldest son, Joseph, who by now had a family of his own, stayed in Winchester. The family did not like this new area in Roanoke County and in the fall of 1748 they all moved again to the Forks of the Yadkin in North Carolina. Morgan's brother William who had always lived close by up to this point decided to stay in Roanoke County Virginia where he presumably died.

"Morgan Bryan, the first to travel this way, had to take the wheels off his wagon and carry it piecemeal to the top, and had been three months on the journey from the Shanidore [Shenandoah] to the Etkin [Yadkin]." http://www.americanhistory.com/history/COSW/COSW02.mgi

As some of the earliest settlers in this part of the Yadkin River Valley, Morgan, Martha and eight of their children selected the choice pieces of land in an area that was afterward called "The Bryan Settlement." Their nearest neighbors were about 60 miles away. The Bryans claimed large acreages in Rowan County, parts of which are now in Wilkes County, and some 5000 areas in the northeast section of what is now Davie County, from Dutchman
s Creek into Farmington, Smiths Grove, and the Bend of the River sections of the county.

Morgan lived here for the rest of his life surrounded by his family. Martha died first, the date and place require explanation. Most early biographers of the family state that Martha Strode Bryan died in Virginia in 1747, but in teh Bryan Papers deposited by the Rev. John D. Shane with the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, is the following:

Martha Bryan died August 24, 1762
Allenor Bryan died Oct 21, 1772
Morgan Bryan died Apr 3, 1763, Easter Sunday

These records given to Lyman Draper are a part of the "Shane Collection: Bryan Family Papers; MS/SH18/B84, Item 2." This document is more likely to reflect the true record of Martha's death since Morgan Bryan did die 3 April 1763 in Rowan County, North Carolina at age 92 and left a will dated 28 March, recorded in Will Book A, Page 13 as follows:

"I Morgan Bryan of Rowan County living in perfect mind and memory, blessed be God for his mercies, so dispose of my worledly estate as follows, vis. first, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas Bryan my mansion house and plantation, also my part of a Negro boy named Jack, also my wagon and wagon horse called Black and the necessaries belonging to the wagon and my plow and utensils thereunto. Two brood mares, viz. a mare called Brown Dent and her yeard and her colt, a cow called Josie and her calf and one called Brown and her calf; also my bed and furniture after my decease reserving a sufficient living for me from the land while I live. Second, I give and beqeueath unto my beloved daughter Elinor Linville all my wife's wearing apparel. I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Mary Forbes my great pot and five shillings Sterling. Eight pounds proclamatin to my beloved sone James Bryan. I reserve for my funeral charages and sickness. I give and bequeath Joseph, Samuel, Morgan, John William, James and Thomas and my daughter Elinor Linville all the rest of my real and personal estate to be equally divided amongst them, together with that part of my estate which they have already received. I do nominate and appoint my beloved sons John Bryan and William Bryan to be Executors ratifyng and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this March 28, 1763.

Morgan Bryan"

Signed, Sealed, Published and Pronounced by the testator in presence of us - Morgan Bryan Jr., Anthony Heaverloe, Mary (X) Forbes: Proved July Court 1763.


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Morgan Bryan was also discussed in the historic records of Alexander Ross (see the Individual Page for Alexander Ross in this file):
Alexander was taxed from 1718-1730 in West Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He and Morgan Bryan petitioned the Council of the Colony of Virginia on 28 October 1730 that there were 100 families desirous of settling in Virginia and requested 100,000 acres on the west and north side of "Opeckon" to the North Mountain and along the River Cohongarooton (Potomac River). With the advice of the Council, the Governor gave permission to Ross and Bryan to take up the 100,000 acres; patents would be granted, providing that the 100 families were present and dwelling upon the land within two years.
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Alexander (b. 1682 c.) sold a 214-acre section of patent land . . . to Joseph Bryan on 12 April 1744. (son of Morgan Bryan)
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Frederick County, Virginia, Hopewell Friends History [database online], Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997:

In the State Land Office at Richmond are to be found recorded in Book 16, pages 315-415, inclusive, the patents issued to the settlers who came to the Shenandoah Valley under authority of the Orders in Council made to Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan. All bear date of November 12, 1735, and recite that the grantee is one of the seventy families brought in by them, and excepting location and acreage, are alike in wording and conditions, and are signed by William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony at that time. . . .

These patents were issued under the seal of the colony and were grants from the Crown, free of any obligation of feudal services to the Fairfax family, who claimed the land as lords proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia. The sixth Lord Fairfax, who later established his home at Greenway Court near Winchester, instituted many suits against early settlers in the Shenandoah Valley, but it does not appear that any Friend who claimed under Ross and Bryan was ever ejected from his land.

Although it is specifically stated that seventy families have been "by them brought in to our said Colony and settled upon the Lands in the said Order mentioned," only thirty-six patents issued to thirty-four grantees have been found. The names of these grantees are here given, together with sundry information gathered from the minutes of various Friends' meetings, from the records of the counties of Orange and Frederick in Virginia, and Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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The Frederick County records show but one conveyance (from Alexander Ross) &, (Deed Book 1, page 75), and that is to Joseph Bryan, son of his partner Morgan Bryan, to whom he sells 214 acres on April 13, 1744. No other sales appear in the records, and as he bought no additional land, he could hardly be considered a speculator in land, as some have claimed.
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The identity of all 70 families who settled in Frederick County, VA by 1735, in the geographic area of the Bryan-Ross land order, is unknown to the compiler. However, each person listed below was a grantee in at least one patent dated November 12, 1735 to real estate in this area:
7. Bryan, Morgan, Sr.

(5) Following is a listing, in page number order in VA Patent Book 16, of the 40 patents which were executed and delivered on November 12, 1935 to members of the "70 families" who settled in Frederick County, VA by 1735, in the geographic area of the Bryan-Ross land order:

1. Pp. 315-318, Morgan Bryan, 400 acres
2. Pp. 318-320, Morgan Bryan, 264 acres

18. Pp. 356-359, Morgan Bryan, 450 acres
29. Pp. 390-382, Morgan Bryan, 1,020 acres

7. Bryan, Morgan, Sr. - By most accounts, Morgan Bryan was born in Denmark, about 1671, of English-Irish parentage, and came to America from northern Ireland in 1695 at the age of 24 years. The earliest known record on Bryan is the listing of his name on a 1719 tax roll in Chester County, PA. The migration pattern of the Bryan family was from Chester County, PA to VA.

Morgan married Martha Strode in 1719 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Martha was born in 1678 in Holland; died on 29 Aug 1762 in Bryans Station, Rowan Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The family of Strode, which is stated to derive from the Dukes of Bretagne, was founded in England by one of the soldiers of the Conquest, Sir Warinus de la Strode, Lord of Strode, in Dorsetshire, whose immediate successors enjoyed large estats in the counties of Dorset and Somerset England to the eight of whom in direct line we pass."

There is much written about Colonel William Strode as he was one of five who condemned and ordered the execution of Charles I of England. That seems to be the reason that his family would turn up abroad, as the Restoration would have been unsafe for them had they remained in England. Colonel Strode was buried in Westminster Abbey.

From: Some Boone Descendants, St. Charles District (MO), by Lillian Hays Oliver.