Obadiah Bryant

Brief Life History of Obadiah

When Obadiah Bryant was born on 16 May 1756, in Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Bryant, was 47 and his mother, Hannah Bearse, was 43. He died on 16 April 1778, in Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 21.

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Thomas Bryant
1708–1787
Hannah Bearse
1712–1802
Abiah Bryant
1734–
Mary Bryant
1735–1747
Thomas Bryant
1737–1815
Hannah Bryant
1740–
Stephen Bryant
1741–1821
Thankful Bryant
1744–
Hezekiah Bryant
1747–1826
Gamaliel Bryant
1749–
Molly Bryant
1752–1821
Obadiah Bryant
1756–1778

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    1776

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

    1776 · The Declaration to the King

    """At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""

    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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