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• Proof: 10 Jul 1767, Augusta County, Virginia. Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate
Records, 1639-1850 about Morgan Bryan
Name: Morgan Bryan
Location: Augusta CO., VA
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish
Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of
Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks: Patent to Morgan Bryan, 20 Sep 1746; patent to Michael Warren, 10 Jul
1767.
Description: Patentee
Book_Date: 19-387
• Proof: 29 Apr 1775, Berkeley County, Virginia. Source: Northern Neck Land
Grants1742 - 1775, pg - 354:
Jeremiah Strode of Berkeley Co. set forth there is surplus intract on Opeccon in said
Co. part of 1250 A. granted by the Crown to Morgan Bryan 3 Oct. 1734. Bryan
conveyed 360 A. to his son Joseph Bryan who conveyed to Edward Strode who
conveyed to said Jeremia Strode. Surv. Richard Rigg shows 580 1/8 A. (218 1/2A.
surplus & 1 5/8 A. adj.) on Opeccon, adj. Strode, Col. John Carlyle, land formerly Capt.
Richard Pearis, George Williams. 29 Apr. 1775
Morgan married Martha Strode, daughter of Edward Strode II and Susanna Hatchett,
on 22 Aug 1714 in St. Peter's Parish Church, Perth Amboy, Burlington County, New Jersey.
Martha was born in Sep 1691 in Brugge, , Brabant, Belgium, died on 24 Aug 1762 in Rowan
County, North Carolina at age 70, and was buried on 29 Aug 1762 in Rowan County, North
Carolina.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Information: 1685, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The following cited as proof of
foundation of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, Burlington County, New Jersey -
Burlington County formed from non-claimed area in 1709.
PERTH AMBOY CHURCH IS 302 AND COUNTING
By RALPH GINZBURG
Published: Sunday, February 15, 1987
ST. PETER'S Episcopal Church here is preparing to celebrate its 302d year. It is the
oldest Episcopal parish in New Jersey, dating from 1685, or nearly a century before the
nation was born.
Although an official state publication, ''Fifty New Jersey Firsts,'' calls St. Peter's the
oldest Episcopal parish in America, the Rev. J. Rodney Croes, the rector, is not ready
to lay claim to that distinction.
''It is a matter of dispute,'' he said, ''and three other Episcopal parishes may be older
than ours. For me, it is honor enough to be the oldest parish in New Jersey, and that is a
claim no one disputes.''
St. Peter's traces its origins to the first prayer assembly of a group of 12 Church of
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