Shepherd Bryan1

d. 1821
Shepherd Bryan|d. 1821|p10670.htm|Bennett Bryan|d. 1787|p10667.htm|Rachel Shepherd||p10668.htm|||||||||||||

3rd great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
5th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Shepherd Bryan was the son of Bennett Bryan and Rachel Shepherd.1 He died in 1821 in Sussex County, Delaware.2
     
Additional Data
Sheppard Bryan, private in the Delaware Regiment, Revolutionary War, deserted and was caught in Somerset County, Maryland, about 118 miles from Dover, Delaware, in September 1782, by Samuel Owens.3

Shepherd Bryan was mentioned in his father Bennett Bryan's will dated 28 October 1787 in Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. Shepherd was nominated sole executor and left one-third of the land.1

Citations

  1. [S1008] Public Archives Commission, Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800 (Georgetown, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1964), Arch. vol. A60; Reg. of Wills, Liber D.
  2. [S968] Karen Wunderlich Siezowski, online <http://home.xnet.com/~karens/Bennett.html>, Karen Siezowski (unknown location), downloaded 2006.
  3. [S1009] Henry C. Jr. Peden, Revolutionary Patriots of Delaware 1775-1783 (Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1996), 31, citing Delaware Archives, Military, Volume I (Wilmington, DE: Mercantile Printing Company, 1911), 611, 612.