James Bryan, Indentured Servant
1786 Maryland
SOURCE: Western Maryland Newspaer Abstracts 1786-1798, Hall fo Records Librar, 23533, Annapolis, MD Compilation of items taken from te available newspapers of Hagerstown and Fredrick, Maryland.
Notes: I do not believe this is our James Bryan because of his age. Ours was born in 1764,
this fellow was born abt. 1751. I am also including the other extracts in the document I had in
hopes that the information may help another researcher someday. I have no other information about anyone listed here, except James Bryan, Sr. born April 12, 1764 in Delaware. Address where you can write the Maryland State Archive is at bottom.
29. MCM Aug 2 1786/ Richardson Stuart, Great Falls of Patowmack, offers reward for indented servant men, David Lyon, 27, 5 feet 5 1/2 inch, well made, smooth face, dark hair, thin visage, dead grey eyes, hair cut very short, and eyebrows latey shaved.
Patrick Ready, 32, 5 feet 9 1/2 inch, blue eyes, dark hair; James Bryan, 35, 5 ft 9 1/2 inch, slim made, pock marked, black eyes, and black hair
and Patrick M'Donold, 35, 5 ft 5 1/2 inch, well made, piercing grey eyes, hair cut very short, and eyebrows lately
shaved/ Thomas Coles, mariner, who sailed
from the river Thames, in a transport for Cork and thence to Boston, about the beginning of the late
American war, should contact printer in Philadelphia to learn of something to his advantage - his
brother, William Coles /
Roger Brooke, Fred Co, to sell at house of John Roberts, Taney Town, 724 a. of land, 1 1/2 mile of
said town / David Kemp, Little Pipe Creek has taken up stray horses.
From the same page....
First part missing... : Cornelius M'Carty, 20, about 5 ft 5 inch, black hair, stout made,
smooth face, says he has been a sailor;
Francis Murry, 23 yrs old, about 5 ft 7 inch, light brown hair, strong made, smooth faced, says
he is a butcher; a servant woman belonging to one of the neighbours says she is Cronean's wife,
has gone off with them/ Jacob Shesler, Fred. Town, offers reward for horse. / Dancing school
at the market house - William Stewart from Baltimore.
26. MCM Jul 12 1786 Thomas Noland, reports a stray horse which came to his plantation on Carrol's
Manner./ Ostrich feather lost between John M'Gill's and this town.
27. MCM Jul 19 1786 Came Francis Mantz, before William Beall, Justice of the peace, and made oath
that he sold an old waggon, for Cat. Nicholas B Sealrook, of Virginia./ Benjamin Saunders Loudon
Co, Va, offers reward for negro man named Harry of yellowish complexion, about 5 ft 7 inch, 19-20
yrs of age, stout. /
Peter Troutman, Fred Co, offers reward for indented servant man, named Daniel Brown, about 5 ft
4-5 inch, large scar on his right cheek, from the mouth almost to his ear.
28. MCM Jul 26 1786 / No additional items.
29. See above.
30. MCM Aug 9 1786 - portion missing. / MCM Aug 16 1786 - No additional items. / MCM Aug 23 1786
- portion missing
31. MCM Aug 30 1786 / Sale of 1100 acres of land in Fred Co, Va - Nathaniel Burwell / Thomas
Beatty, Sheriff, collecting debts owed late Sheriff and Collector Christopher Edelen / If John
Fenesey, son of William Fenesey, is alive, he is desired to give
information of his situation and place of abode to his father; a letter directed to the care of
Samuel Cleland, at Big Pipe Creek bridge, Frederick Co, will be readily forwarded - William Fenesey /
Sale of mill in Fred Co, on main road from Fred Town to Harper's Ferry, with about 100 acres -
William Magruder, Leonard Smith. / John Heppener, living nr Little Pipe Creek, Fred Co, had take
n up a stray mare. /
Conrad Nicodemus, Washington Co, about 7 miles from Middle Town, offers reward for mare / J
ames Hook, Senior, forwarns persons from traveling through his plantation, hunting with dog or gun
, cutting any of his timber, except sitches.
32. MCM Sep 6 1786 / Sarah Helems, then known Langly, gives notice that she intends to petition
Gen Assembly for tract of land called the Resurvey on ...My page ends here.
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