Alexander Bryan1,2,3

M, b. before 29 September 1602, d. between 20 July 1679 and 6 November 1679
FatherThomas Bryan d. b 7 Oct 1611
MotherFrances Bowling b. 13 Mar 1569, d. b 24 Sep 1624
     Alexander was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. He was christened there on 29 September 1602.4,5 Alexander married Anna Baldwyn in 1631 in Aylesbury. Alexander and Anna had a son Richard and possibly others. In 1663, Alexander Bryan had been involved in a transaction transferring land that his wife Ann had inherited in Wendover Parish, Buckinghamshire from her uncle, Richard Baldwin to her cousin Edward. In 1666, Sarah, widow of Slyvestor Baldwin, passed land in England to Sylvester's cousin Edward Baldwin, being described as a cottage and a close that Sylvester had inherited from his uncle Richard Baldwin. In the late spring of 1638, Alexander & his wife, Anna, along with their children, left England aboard the ship, "Martin", |They arrived at the Boston Harbor sometime before the 13th of July. Sylvester Baldwin and his family, John Baldwin, Francis Bolt, the James Weeden family of Chesham, the Chad Brown family and others from Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire were also on board. It is believed that John Baldwin of Norwich, then a young. orphaned child, accompanied Sylvester's family and that he lived with the family until his marriage. Another close family member, probably cousin of Sylvester, John Baldwin was also aboard the ship & witnessed Sylvester's will. At one time there were five of the name of "John Baldwin: resiging in Milford. In 1643, Sarah was listed on the New Haven records with a family of five - herself & 4 children..6,7,8,9 Alexander's wife, Anna, died on 20 February 1661 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, leaving him a widower.10 He married second Susannah. She was first married to William Whiting. After his death, she married second in 1650, Samuel Fitch who died in 1659. He was a prominent merchant in Milford. From 1668 to 1673, he was assistant Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, and in Milford was one of the purchase trustees. Alexander made his will on 24 April 1674 at Milford. He wrote a codicil to his will on 22 May 1679. Alexander departed this life between 20 July 1679 and 6 November 1679 there in Milford.

Family

Anna Baldwyn b. Mar 1605, d. 20 Feb 1661

Citations

  1. [S652] Josephine Frost, Ancestories of James Wilson Yates and his wife, Nancy Davis Terry, page 21 - ALEXANDER BRYAN, son of Thomas Bryan was born in Aylesbury, Eng., where he was baptized Sept. 29, 1602. He married in England Anne, daughter of Robert Baldwin. She died in Milford, Ct., Feb. 20, 1661 and he married second, Susanna widow of Samuel Fitch, schoolmaster at Hartford. His wife Anne received property from her uncle Richard Baldwin, in Wendover, England and in 1663, Alexander and his son Richard sold this property, after the death of the wife and mother. Alexander Bryan was one of the first settlers of Milford, Ct. in 1639. He was a man of great influence in the Colony of New Haven and after the union with Connecticut, he served as Deputy from Milford to Hartford in 1661 and on May 9, 1678 was elected Assistant to the Governor of the Colony. July 11, 1668, George Baldwin of Huntington, L. I. with his wife Mary deeded Alexander Bryan and his son Richard, both of Milford, Ct., land in Eaton's Neck on the east side of Huntington Harbor. This deed is recorded in New York under date of Aug. 8, 1668. Aug. 23, 1686, Governor Dongan granted "the Lordship and Manor of Eaton" to Alexander and Richard Bryan and this grant shows that Richard had transferred his part to his eldest son Alexander. Theophilus Eaton had purchased this property in 1646 from the Indians. It is doubtful if Alexander ever made his home on Long Island, altho he was a large land owner there.
    The records of Milford, Ct., show that as early as 1640 Alexander and his son Richard owned boats that plied between Milford, Boston and the West Indies.
    The exact date of his death is not known but it was between July 20 and Nov. 6, 1679.
    The Memorial Bridge at Milford commemorates the founding of Milford and the names of Alexander and his wife may be seen upon it.
    2 RICHARD BRYAN, son of Alexander and Anne (Baldwin) Bryan was born in England before 1632 and came to Milford, Ct. with his parents who were there in 1639. He was his father's associate in business as well as in his real estate transactions. He married before 1649, Mary, daughter of William and Margaret Pantry. In 1669 he had a home in Huntington, L. I. and had for his neighbors, Mark Meigs, Joseph Whitman, Thomas Brush and John Sammis. April 22, 1673, he sold his "accommodations" in.
  2. [S653] Nathan G. Pond, The Story of the Memorial in Honor of the Founders of the Town of Milford, page 9 - He was a prominent merchant in Milford, and with his son Richard stood in such high credit at Boston that his note of hand passed current as bank bills in the present day, says Lambert. He was the son of Thomas Bryan, of Aylesbury, England, and was baptised there, September 29th, 1602. His wife was Anna, only child of Robert Baldwin and Joane, his wife. From 1668 to 1673, he was assistant Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, and in Milford was one of the purchase trustees. (This stone is the gift of Mrs. Jean E. True, of Washington, D. C., who was by birth a Bryan.).
  3. [S115] Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations Of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, On The Basis Of Farmer's Registar, Volume I: page -.
  4. [S704] Nathan G. Pond, The Story of the Memorial in Honor of the Founders of the Town of Milford

    , Alexander, son of Thomas Bryan of Aylesbury, was baptised September 29th, 1602.
  5. [S2184] C. C. Baldwin, Alexander Bryan of Milford Connecticut, his ancestors and his descendants.
  6. [S708] Ship List for the ship "Martin": 1638 to Massachusetts at the Boston Harbor before 13 July 1638 - only known of because of the death of one of its passengers, Sylvester Baldwin.
  7. [S138] Charles Candee Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealody from 1500-1881, Page 41 - At a Court of Assistants, held at Boston, the 4th of the 7th month, 1638, (4 Sept., 1638.)
    “The will of Silvester Bauldwin was p’sented unto the Court, and his wife Sarah and sonne Rich’d were allowed executors according to the will.” (Mass. Records, Vol. 1, p. 23, inarg. 226.)
    page 42 - …The widow went with the emigrants to New Haven, and was the widow Baldwin enrolled among the first planters there, five in her family, and L300 in the list , and lots were afterward drawn in her right. She married, 1640, John Astwood, of Milford, Connecticut, when her property was valued at L800, besides several parcels of land.
  8. [S698] Honorable John D. Baldwin, John Baldwin of Stonington & Other John Baldwin's of Early Colonial Times, In a list of. the New Haven "planters," made in 1643, she appears as “the Widow Baldwin," with a family consisting of five persons. The Widow Baldwin's family included herself and four children. But, at that time, she had with her only three of her own children, the other three having married and left her; Sarah in 1638, Mary in 1640, and Richard in 1642. Who was this additional child?
    - Remembering that old Bible and its record,
    and remembering, also, the statement in a letter of the Hon. Simeon Baldwin, that, according to the traditions of the Norwich family to which he belonged, "John, the father of the Norwich family, came to this country with a respectable connection of the family, when a boy," I believe, without very serious hesitation, that it was John Baldwin, of Norwich.
  9. [S152] Assistant Professor of History in Wells College Isabel MacBeath Calder, The New Haven Colony
    , pages 73-74 - The small group headed by Peter Prudden that had coalesced with the Davenport Company in Massachusetts Bay and migrated with them to Quinnipiac drew toward the plantation on Long Island Sound Sarah [Bryan] Baldwin, widow of Sylvester Baldwin of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, who in the summer of 1638 died on board the Martin on his way to New England; her two sons and four daughters; Alexander Bryan, a native of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, kinsman of Sarah Baldwin; John Baldwin, Francis Bolt, and others from Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire.
  10. [S2184] C. C. Baldwin, Alexander Bryan of Milford Connecticut, his ancestors and his descendants, page 11.