BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

8-112 INTERACTIVE FAMILY HISTORIESAn 1801 Rowan County, North Carolina deed is the earliest known reference toSamuel Bryan living in Davidson County, Tennessee. This deed states that“Samuel Bryan of Davidson County, state of Tennessee” sold 200 acres of landon Bear Creek in Rowan County, North Carolina to John Little of RowanCounty, North Carolina. Samuel received 200 pounds for this tract of land.This deed conveyed a “parcel of land left to him the said Samuel Bryan by thewill of John Bryan, Dec’d, lying and being in Rowan County and state of NorthCarolina lying on Bear Creek being part of a tract of land granted to the saidJohn Brian (sic) by the state of North Carolina bearing the date at Kingston thetwenty fifth day of October Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty six, No.1225 as by record will more fully appear.” This land was bounded by BenjaminGaither’s line. This deed was witnessed by another neighbor, Jacob Trout.