When Rebecca Brian was born about 1716, in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Bryan, was 54 and her mother, Rebecca Collins, was 43. She married John Hank on 22 July 1737, in Burlington, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died in 1775, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 60.
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"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
Irish and English: variant of Bryant .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Briain, see O'Brien .
French: unflattering nickname from Old Occitan brian ‘mite, maggot’, by extension brimborion, possibly denoting a very small man.
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