Elizabeth Bryant

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Bryant was born on 24 February 1725, in Richmond County, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Bryant, was 25 and her mother, Mary Lessingham, was 30. She had at least 4 sons and 7 daughters with Henry Carraway. She died in 1784, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Wayne, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Carraway
1724–1784
Elizabeth Bryant
1725–1784
Nancy Ann Britain
1742–1779
George Brittain Sr
1742–1825
John Carraway
1759–1823
Barrot Carraway
1749–1784
Zelpha Carraway
1750–1804
Mary Ann Carraway
1752–1792
Elizabeth Carraway
1755–
Sevil Carraway
1757–1824
Molly Carraway
1766–1784
Eve Carraway
1774–1784
Adam Carraway
1774–1846

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  • Elizabeth Carraway, "United States Census, 1790"

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World Events (2)

1775

"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.

Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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