Mrs Elizabeth Bryan

Elizabeth's occupation was Dr. John Durand's wife, Elizabeth Bryan, was a daughter of Richard Bryan, and a grand-daughter of Alexander Bryan. Alexander Bryan was a son of Thomas Bryan. In March 1605/06, Alexander Bryan married Anne Baldwin, daughter of Robert and Joan Baldwin of North Church, Hertfordshire. Robert Baldwin was the son of Henry and Alice (King) Baldwin of Dundridge, in the parish of Aston Clinton, Buckinghampshire, adjoining Aylesbury.. 

• Occupation Notes
  • Alexander Bryan and his son, Richard, were great merchants in New England. They bought and sold lands in almost every town from New London to New York. They furnished goods to pay the Indians for nearly all the townships in this region. Their vessels traded not only in American ports but in England, Holland, and Spain. Their bills passed in exchange in all parts of the country, and particularly in England. It is doubtful if there was another merchant, out of Boston on the American coast, who did as large a business as Alexander Bryan from 1639 to 1670.
    
    Richard Bryan married first, Mary, daughter of William and Margaret Pantry. After her death, he married second, on July 15, 1679 (Vital Statistics, Milford, Connecticut), Mary, baptized May 21, 1648 (1st Congregational Society of New Haven), and daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Heaton (widow) Wilmot, granddaughter of Benjamin and Ann Wilmot of New Haven, Connecticut. Mary (Wilmot) Bryan was sometimes called Mercy. Their child, Elizabeth Bryan, was born on April 19, 1680, Milford, Connecticut, and baptized April 25, 1680. She outlived her husband, Dr. John Durand. In the Town Records of Derby it is recorded that she deeded lands to her son, Ebenezer, in 1756 and, in an old memorandum book dated 1763, there is reference made of her living, at which time she would have been 83 years old. In the last years of her life, she made her home with her daughter. The Johnson families lived in the northern part of Derby (now called Seymour), and she was probably buried in this part of the town."
    
    Bryan, p 20 [paraphrase]:
    
    Elizabeth bp Nov 1685 m Dr. John Durand. Children:
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    [last] Ebenezer 7 Dec 1724 who had a son Ebenezer.
    
    Savage, although well-respected, appears to have got ELIZABETH wrong, 1:180 (under BRYAN):
    
    "...RICHARD [BRYAN], Milford, s. of first Alexander, b. in Eng. by w. Mary had Alexander ... Sarah, 1670. He m. 1678, Eliz. wid. of Richard Hollingworth, d. of Michael Powell of Boston, wh. d. 1698, had Eliz. b. 1679; ...His wid. m. John Durand, and, fourth h. a Treat, and d. 1706."
    
    This describes ELIZABETH BRYAN's father's wife Elizabeth Powell who married 3 times (qv). ELIZABETH was born at Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, on 19 April 1680.5,2 She was the daughter of RICHARD BRYAN and MARY "Mercy" WILMOT. She was baptized at Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, on 25 April 1680. Religion: . Bryan says Nov 1685; so does Harvey Durand..5,2,6,7 She married Dr JOHN (JEAN) DURAND [Du1] at New York City, New York, New York, USA, on 10 September 1698.8,9,10 She sold property at Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, in 1756.1 ELIZABETH died after 1763 at Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.11