In a message dated 1/22/00 11:03:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, Scotti3275@aol.com writes: << Subj: Re: [GASCREVE] Re: GASCREVE-D Digest V00 #12 Date: 1/22/00 11:03:36 AM Eastern Standard Time From: Scotti3275@aol.com Reply-to: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com To: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com Judy, No, I don't have any info on the Minors (i.e. Riedelsperger), but I've often wondered about the connection that my g-g-grandfather (Hope Brigdon Scott) had with Captain Louis "Martin" Luther Bryan, and this could be the key. I know that Martin Bryan was married to a Brannen descendant, but that seemed to be very far off. Anyway, I hope that this helps. Please keep in touch. Scottie >> Scottie - so sorry to take such a long time to answer, but I have been about 300 emails behind for over a month. I sometimes go to the bottom and start up, and sometimes from the top, down, but still behind. Lewis Martin Luther BRYAN was my husband's great-great grandfather. He was also the ancestor of Donny MALLARD, who is on this list. I have done a book on our line of BRYANs who came to Barnwell Dist, SC in 1774 from Craven Co NC. Our Rev War ancestor was William BRYAN b ca 1746-7 in NC and married Elizabeth MOORE, dau of Thomas MOORE, Jr also of NC. Their son, Joseph BRYAN, b 1776, married Rebecca Dewees, daughter of Cornelius Dewees, who was b in PA and moved to Charleston. Cornelius's second wife and mother of his dau Rebecca, was Mrs Sarah MINORS, who was the widow of Charles MINORS, Sr, and had two children by Minors. There was a family story, handed down in several of the lines, that there was a John BRYAN who married Sarah Rhedelspurger (spelled dozens of ways - Riedels perger, etc). I did find a John BRYAN, who is likely the brother of our William BRYAN. However, I never found any proof of a marriage for him. He appears in SC during the Rev War, and disappears after the Rev War, so I don't know if he died or if he went back to NC. I have much, much circumstantial evidence to prove that our William BRYAN is a grandson of Lewis BRYAN, Sr. who was one of the original BRYANs who settled in eastern NC. We have good reason to believe that he was a brother of Edward BRYAN, Sr. (land documents, etc), but since he lived in a county that burned soon after his death, we have very little to find on Lewis Sr's family, other than headrights and later documents of those who were his children and grandchildren. We suspect that William is a son of Lewis BRYAN, Jr, who may or may not have been the Lewis BRYAN who showed up in Barnwell Dist, SC at the same time frame of William, Simon, John, and other BRYANS. Our research group has been hard at work for over 3 years, now, and we originally thought that it would take about 2 years to find the answer. Some of the other people on our research team have corrected many of the other BRYAN lines which were published, and we are now finding more to challenge the old tale of Needham BRYAN's family (his mother was not Alice NEEDHAM, dau of a royal line. She was Alice MACLAND, dau of John MACLAND, by his will.). Someday we will be ready to release our findings, but we are still working hard, and finding more and more on every line. We use only documents, and no genealogies - which are full of errors. I got off on a tangent there, didn't I? ha ha ;-) I am of the belief that the Rhedelspurger (et al) connection is through the DEWEES line, and would love to have time to go look at those Rhedelspurger/Reidelsburger, etc, documents in SC, and maybe will, some day. If I can help in any other way, please do let me know. Judy Canant