{JOHN HERITAGE BRYAN COLLECTION - PC 6 - NC Archive}

JOHN HERITAGE BRYAN COLLECTION - PC 6 - NC Archive. 

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  • ABBR Lenoir Co., NC,  JOHN HERITAGE BRYAN COLLECTIONTITL JOHN HERITAGE BRYAN COLLECTION - PC 6 - NC Archives, Raleigh, NC
    
    There are three Bryan Collections that I am aware of in North Carolina
    - Southern Historical Collection, NC Archives in Raleigh, and Special
    Collections at Duke.   Most of the information comes from the papers of
    
    
    
    
    James Bryan who married Rachel Heritage and their descendants. Both of
    their sons, John Heritage and James, were well known in Craven County
    and across the state. John Heritage Bryan was an attorney and had clients
    in neighboring counties and up and down the eastern seaboard. The family
    was well connected to every prominent family in eastern North Carolina
    and through personal correspondence many families can be traced. Every
    descendant well into the twentieth century kept every scrap of paper they
    ever owned, both personal and business. There are numerous scrapbooks kept
    by the wives.
    
    I have started the Collection at both UNC and the NC Archives.  The former
    is 40 feet of material and may never be finished. Because the papers are
    spread out in so many places, it makes working with them difficult from
    
    
    
    
    the standpoint, one sees mention of the same legal cases in both
    Collections.  The papers at the Archives are frustrating because there are
    so many notes that refer to see attached will or deed and said will or deed
    is not attached which means it could be in any of the Collections in
    another folder.
    
    There are many notes on scraps of papers and that is just what they
    are - notes which may or may not make sense.  The Collections are being
    
    
    
    
    culled primarily for two reasons - to abstract any Dobbs, Greene or
    Lenoir County papers with genealogical information and to abstract any documents that might pertain to the early Bryan family which will be used
    by the Bryan research group.  Because of the latter, there are many Craven
    and Jones references in these notes. There are numerous Lenoir County
    Court Dockets in th

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  • Parent Source: JOHN HERITAGE BRYAN COLLECTION - PC 6 - NC Archives, Raleigh, NC
  • Marriage / Union: Jesse McCotter & Charlotte Burns