Bryans of Rowan County - One or more sons of Morgan Bryan of Rowan County were Loyalists. Morgan Bryan arrived in North Carolina's Forks of the Yadkin from the Shenandoah Valley in the winter of 1747-48. By the mid-1750's, his seven sons had married and established themselves in the "Bryan Settlement" of the newly-created Rowan County, NC. [Quoted by permission from the writings of John K. Bryan, Jr. of Scotia, New York.] The seven sons were: Joseph Samuel Morgan, Jr. John James William Thomas This information came from Morgan Bryan's descendant, John K. Bryan, Jr. John's wife Virginia Armstrong Bryan is a descendant of Orange Countians William and Jane Lapsley Armstrong. This is all that I have at this time, but if anyone is interested in this Bryan family, I am sure John Bryan, an exceptionally careful researcher, will be happy to send me info to post, or I can send his address to those interested by private e-mail; he is not on Internet. Helen Gant Donald ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line