Bryan Family Descendants - NO

Description: 470 acres on the heads of the branches of the Southern branch of
Nansemond.
Source: Land Office Patents No. 7, 1679-1689 (v.1 & 2 p.1-719), p. 133 (Reel 7).
Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of
the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives
at the Library of Virginia.
Subject - Personal Bryan, John. grantee.
Subject - Topical Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- Nansemond
County.
Subject -Geographic Nansemond County (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.
Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- Nansemond County.
Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774.
Library of Virginia. Archives.
• Estate: 1711, Norfolk County, Virginia. John died and gave a noncupative will on his
deathbed....
John married Sarah Berryman, daughter of Capt. Willam Berryman and Eleanor Hold.
Sarah was born in 1637 in Accomack County, Virginia and died before 1711 in Surry County,
Virginia.
Noted events in her life were:
• Information: 1637, Accomack County, Virginia. Sarah was the daughter of William
Berryman who died 1648 Northampton County Virginia, and she was the aunt of
Robert Berryman, Clerk of Isle of Wight County Virginia in 1729, and the sister of John
Berryman who died 1711 in Surry County Virginia. Her father was a wealthy merchant,
and ship owner.
• Proof: 28 Jun 1648, Northampton County, Virginia. Virginia Land, Marriage, and
Probate Records, 1639-1850
Title Berryman, William.
Publication 1648.
Gen. note Part of index to Northampton County Wills and Administrations (1632-1800)
Note p. 14. Inv. of estate ordered [28 Jan. 1654]
p. 145a-146. Inv. & appr. rec. 23 Oct. 1648.
p. 146-146a. Accounts rec. 28 June 1648.
Note Deeds, Wills, Etc., No. 3, 1645-1651 (Reel 3)
Subject - Personal Berryman, William.
Subject -Geographic Northampton County (Va.)
Genre/Form Estate inventories.
Added Title Virginia wills and administrations.
Children from this marriage were:
29 M i. William Bryan was born in 1658 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia and
died before 23 Sep 1742 in Northampton County, North Carolina.
William married Alice Needham (d. After 1 Jan 1743) in Norfolk County,
Virginia.
30 M ii. Lewis Bryan was born in 1662 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia and died
in 1740 in Bertie County, North Carolina at age 78.
Lewis married Elizabeth Hunter (d. 1732).
31 M iii. Joseph Bryan Sr. was born in 1664 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia and
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