Now if I could only find my LYDIA BRYANT, 1700's New England somewhere. Jo Dee Frasco I'm listing here some Lydia Bryant's, does any of these fit the description: 1645, Stephen Bryant married the Shaw's daughter Abigail. They had eight children: Abigail, born 1646/47 John, born April 7, 1650 Mary, born May 29, 1654 Stephen, born Feb. 2, 1657 Sarah, born Nov. 28, 1659 Lydia, born Oct. 23, 1662 Elizabeth, born Oct. 17, 1665 Mehittable, born 1669/70 Lydia married William Churchill on Jan. 17, 1684, and died a widow on Feb. 6, 1736. She was buried in a Churchill lot, next to a Bryant lot in the cemetery at Plympton Green. Her son William Churchill Jr. married Ruth Bryant, a daughter of Lydias brother John. Another son, Deacon Samuel Churchill, married Joannah Bryant, also a daughter of John. Samuel Bryant was born Feb. 3, 1673, at Plympton, Mass., son of Lieut. John and Abigail (Bryant) Bryant he married Joanna, whose maiden name is unknown, born in 1672 . The seven children of Samuel and Joanna were Abigail born Mar. 13, 1728. Joanna, born July 12, 1739; Joseph, born June 3, 1734; Joshua, born Feb.16, 1745 Lois, born June 9, 1725 Susannah, born Jan. 19, 1742 Lydia, born May 12, 1741; married Consider Fuller, Feb. 21, 1759. When Consider died, Lydia took her family to new Gloucester, where she joined the Shakers. One child of Lydia and Consider was: Consider Jr., born May 31, 1780, at Plympton. Consider married his first cousin, Elizabeth Cummings, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Bryant) Cummings. He died at West Paris, Maine, in 1872. The eight children of Consider Jr. and Elizabeth were: Christiana, born Jan. 2, 1802 Chloe, born Feb. 23, 1807 Lucy B., born Jan. 20, 1813 Consider, born Jan. 25, 1815 Betsey B., born Aug. 19, 1820; Abigail Lovica Lydia Jane, married Joseph H. Briggs. Lydia Jane's grandmother, Lydia (Bryant) Fuller, and Jospeh's grandfather, Solomon Bryant, were sister and brother. Joanah Cole the daughter of Ebenezer Cole, married Nathaniel Bryant II they had 13 children Betty (called Betsey) born June 2, 1759 Major Alexander, born Nov. 1761 . Rudolfus, born Apr. 23, 1763; Colonel Patrick, born Apr. 7, 1764 Martin, born Dec. 27, 1765 Eunice, born May 10, 1767 Nathaniel, born May 3, 1769 Royal, born Jan. 30, 1771 died Jan. 3, 1773 Lydia, born Aug. 28, 1773 Ezekiel, born Apr. 18, 1775 Royal, born July 23, 1777 Seth, born May 17, 1779 Samuel, born Oct. 5, 1781. Lydia, born Aug. 28, 1773; on Oct. 26, 1792, appeared her intentions to marry John Niles, born in Easton, Apr. 11, 1769, son of Nahum and Susannah (Cole) Niles. Nathaniel III and Elizabeth had ten children one of which was Lydia, born July 26, 1817; died Aug. 11, 1850. Mary Bryant from Freezing New York