Notes:

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

!BAPTISM: Also shown as Baptized 2 Apr 2014, BOISE.

!ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed Submitted

Other Events:

• Death: Abt 1706, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Notes:

BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

Other Events:

• FamilySearch Id: 94JK-6RH

Notes:

Alexander Bryan
Birth: 1602
Aston Clinton
Buckinghamshire, England
Death: 1679
Milford
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

The son of my ancestors ,THOMAS & FRANCES (BOWLINGE) BRYAN, he was baptized at Aylesbury, Aston Clinton, Bucks, Eng. on Sept. 23, 1603 and was the sister of my ancestor, SARAH BRYAN BALDWIN. He was in New England prior to 1638, having married (1) Ann Baldwin in England. She died at Milford on Feb. 20, 1661. He married (2) Susannah Fitch, widow of Samuel Fitch of Hartford. She was the first wife of William Whitney and died at Middletown, Conn., July 8, 1673.

His name is on a stone on the bridge over the Wepawaug River in Milford for being one of the first settlers.

Alexander Bryan , Wm. Fowler, Edmund Tapp, and Zach. Whitman, agents on behalf of the planters of Milford on Feb. 2, 1638/9 made the first purchase of land from the Indians for the settlement of Wepawaug (later changed to Milford). Two tracts of land were reserved by the Indians for their use & benefit but were later purchased from them at a fair price. The original deed of purchase no longer exists.
In Oct, 1660 and Dec. of 1661, Alexander Bryan made further purchases of land from the Indians in his own name and later transferred them to the town of Milford.
His name was on the list of free planters in Nov. 20th, 1639. In some of the land records, he is referred to as Ensign Alexander Bryan. On page 131 of Lambert's History, the officers chosen at the formation of the military company of Milford in 1640 were .... Ensign Alexander Bryan... and others.
His homelot consisted of four acres and twenty-five poles bounded north on the home-lot of Timothy Baldwin, east and south on the highway (on the north side of Broad Street in later years). On July 11, 1668, he and his son, Richard, both of Milford, purchased from George and Mary Baldwin of Huntington, LI for 200 pounds a tract of land known as Eaton's Neck located in Huntington on the east side of the harbor. In his will, he bequeathed the house and land at Eaton's Neck, Long Island, to his grandson, Alexander Bryan, being held in trust until his nineteenth birthday.
Alexander Bryan's will and inventory showed that he held considerable property including an old and a new warehouse, pasture land on the Indian side, his house & home-lot in Milford, and a house & home-lot he bought from Samuel Eells.
He owned the "great Brig" and brought a complaint to the New Haven Court against James Roggers of Milford in regard to damages in 1655. He was a contemporary of Mr. Allerton and "...Ensign Bryan of Milford sent thence his ships to England, to the Azores, To Virginia, and as far east as Nova Scotia. For many years his credit stood as high as his notes of hand passed as current in Boston as bank notes do anywhere in our own time." (From "History of the Ancient Maritime Interests of New Haven" by Thomas R. Trowbridge, Jr.)
In May, 1650, the town of Milford granted Ensign Bryan and William East a piece of land 20 feet wide and e score foot long on which to build a warehouse. The records also show that he spent money on the dock at the landing place, where he unloaded his goods. On the 7th of Oct. 1653, he gave the town any interest he might have in the dock providing the town keep it in good condition.
He held various offices in Milford over the years of his life and was trusted along with Thomas Topping to pay the town's soldiers in the King Philip's War out of the public treasury.
In Oct., 1663, he was given the responsibility for three delegates from the New Netherland Colony who came to talk to the Connecticut authorities. He did this by providing horses for them and protecting their sloop in the harbor.

His will was made April 24, 1678 and the following July, he added a codicil to his will. Within three and a half months after this, his inventory was taken. His inventory was valued at 712 pounds and 5 shillings. In his will, he names: son, Richard Bryan; grandchildren: Alexander & Samuel Bryan, Hannah Harriman, Sarah Fitch, Richard Bryan, Jr., Frances Bryan Abigail Bryan, Mary Maltby and husband, John Maltby ; great grandchildren: John and Mary Maltby; stepson: John Whiting. He gave Rev. Roger Newton 5 pounds and the town of Milford 8 pounds to purchase a bell for public use. If the bell was not hung within three years, the money was to be given to the poor.

Family links:
Spouses:
Anna Baldwin Bryan (1604 - 1662)*
Susanna Wiggins Whiting Fitch Bryan (1609 - 1673)*

Children:
Richard Bryan (1632 - 1694)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Milford Cemetery
Milford
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA
Plot: The oldest section of the Milford Cemetery

Created by: Nareen, et al
Record added: Jan 31, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 64986552
Alexander Bryan
Added by: Heidi Cannon

Alexander Bryan
Cemetery Photo
Added by: Rebecca


Photos may be scaled.
Click on image for full size.


- Keeper of the Stars
Added: May. 6, 2014
In memory of my 10th great grandfather. You are cherished.
- Susan Ricketts
Added: Feb. 9, 2014
English Immigrant
- tcd
Added: Dec. 23, 2013

Alexander married Baldwin, Anna in 1617 in , England. Anna (daughter of Baldwin, Robert and Robinson, Joan) was born on 17 Nov 1602 in Chesham, Buckingham, England; was christened in Mar 1605 in North Church, Hertfordshire, England; died on 20 Feb 1661 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anna Baldwin Bryan
Memorial
Photos
Flowers
Edit
Share
Learn about removing the ads from this memorial...
Birth: 1604
Herefordshire, England
Death: Feb. 21, 1661
Milford
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

The only child of Robert & Joane Baldwin, she was the first wife of Alexander Bryan, one of the first settlers of Wepawaug (Milford) in the Colony of New Haven. Her name is on the stone along with his on the bridge over the Wepawaug River in Milford. Since she is not actually buried here, but is buried in Rev. Peter Prudden's Garden in the Milford Cemetery, this is a cenotaph.

Burial:
Founders Cemetery Memorial Site
Milford
New Haven County
Connecticut, USA

Created by: Nareen, et al
Record added: Jan 31, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 64991538

Thomas married Bowlinge, Frances "Faith" on 13 Jun 1586 in , Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. Frances was born on 13 Mar 1569 in Aston, Clinton, Bucks, England; was christened on 13 Mar 1569 in St. Mary, Aylesbury, Buckingham, England; died on 24 Sep 1624 in Aylesbury, Bucks, England; was buried on 24 Sep 1624 in Aylesbury, Bucks, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

^ Alexander Bryan married in England, Anne Baldwin, daughter
of Robert and Joan Baldwin, in March, 160;], of North Church,
Hertfordshire, where Robert died that month, a young married
man, leaving this one child. /

^ Robert Baldwin was son of Henry and Alice (King) Baldwin
of Dundridge, distance a little over two miles from North Church,
and in the parish of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire and adjoin-
ing Aylesbury. '

{ By Henry's will, dated 1599, Robert had lands in Flaunden^
Hempstead, and elsewhere in Herts. Robert's mother, Alice
(King) Baldwin, survived him, and in 1622 gave a legacy to Anne,
his daughter. The eldest son of Henry succeeding to the home-
stead, at Dundridge, was Richard. Richard and his wife died
childless, and Richard, by his will dated 1639, gave to Anne
Baldwin, then Anne Bryant, and her son Richard, the lands con-
veyed by the deed hereafter, v

/Anne's grandfather, Henry, was the eldest son of Richard and
Ellen Baldwin, of Dunbridge, and succeeded him there in 155f.
The Baldwins were an old family in the vicinity and the account
of it there occupies over seventy-five pages in my volumn, entitled
the Baldwin Genealogy, and issued in 1881.

1 am indebted to the following persons not named Bryan —
to Charles Andrew Johnson, Esq., of New Orleans, La., and
especially to Mr. N. G. Pond, of Milford, Conn.


http://archive.org/stream/alexanderbryanof00bald/alexanderbryanof00bald_djvu.txt

Robert married Robinson, Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]