Yes, Vern, this "appears to be" my line. I have both volumes of THE BRAYS OF FISHER RIVER by Edna B. Reese, and she, as well as others, seem to think Bryant is one of Peter and Martha's sons. I have established by ancestry back to my greatgrandfather, another Bryant, who had a son named James who died of fever in the Civil War. (Camp Nelson, Union Hosp.) In the 1850 census James was married and living next to his mother, (a Martha, but she was listed as 45) who was listed as a Head of Household with other children, along with a 92 year old pauper from NC named Bryant. Hence my "missing link". James was reportedly born in Hancock/Hawkins Co., TN abt. 1823. He married Winny GOLDEN. Now, to get to your specifics...I have lots of ancestors that were early planters all along the east coast from New Amsterdam to Charleston. My dad's mother was a STEVENSON and her mother was a SWEARINGI(E)N back to Garet Van Sweringen. He was a West Indies trader who sailed from Rotterdam. My mother's family was LEWIS and goes back to the north/south Carolina eastern shore on back to Wales. (Beyond that I don't know specifically.) Her mother was MANNING, earliest immigrant, from her cousin's research, and presumed by the family to have been a John that came over in 1635 from London on either the Globe or the Primrose. I forget offhand which one is supposed to be ours, but ours is said to have been able to sign his name rather than make his mark. (Yeah, the cousin was a school teacher. <grin>) However, I have seen some further research that lists even some of the earlier MANNINGs, and there was an Edward associated with some of the COOPERs in Bertie Co., NC. My husband's line has been verified by DNA to match with David Cooper, presumed to be the s/o Marcome Cooper, b. 1699 Warwickshire, ENG. Now, in researching that line, in some of my earlier hunts for a Cader in NC, I did find records of *a* Peter Bray being called for both jury duty and road service in Bertie Co. If you have not read it, a really good book for helping determine where our English ancestors came from by analyzing their settling patterns in the colonies is ALBION'S SEED by David Hackett Fischer. It is a very detailed and annotated volume, even in thick paperback, but I would recommend it to anybody with English roots. Give me some more specifics and I will be glad to share what I have found. Yours Tree-ly Nancy Bray Cooper -----Original Message----- From: vernbray@sbcglobal.net <vernbray@sbcglobal.net> To: BRAY-L@rootsweb.com <BRAY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: [BRAY-L] Brays from England 1718-1790 >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Bray >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5gF.2ACIB/1222 > >Message Board Post: > >Yes, I know I'll probably get many responses from this, but if you have family who came into the America's during 1718-1790. Can you please give their names, and any personnal or family information about them? I'm trying to see if I can make any connection to a Peter Bray born around 1718 and married to a Martha Scott in 1790. > > >==== BRAY Mailing List ==== >Help keep free Genealogy on the Internet.. >Join Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative >http://www.rootsweb.com > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >