New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-29
BRY4YTS F0REF4THERS.

EvID, vCE THAT STEPHEN BRYANT WAS AT Ply
MOUTH CoLOSY N 1G32--THE FAMILY ~ TIE
ORDER OF DESCENT.
To the EdttOr Of The Tribune.
SIR: In your biographical sketch of the late
william Cullen Bryant two statements are made each
OF which excludes the other: l. That his greatgrand
father was an Engshman. 2 That he came over
to Plymouth Colony in the Maynower.
The voyage OF the Maynower made in 1920. An
adult male coming over in that ship, had son, say
within ye years andng that in thirty years that
married, and in live ten years had male child
born to him. That makes four generations running from
eat-graudchild great gTaudiather. That would
bring the birth Of the representative in the fourth gen
Grafton m 1860; which reduces the possibility somewhat
near its closest term But under ordinary development
starting with adult male IN 1870 the fourth genera
ton would appear before 1900.
Now az TO the historical fact No person Of the name
OF Bryant came over In the MayHowcr Governor Brad
ford in his history up $50, i55 preserves list Of the
passengers by that vessel, and no Bryant was among
them In the ship Fortune, which made the voyage In
1911 there was no HrJ lt t-ge brad'oll PP 100 no.
and Young p. 235J In 1877. arrived the Ann and
the Little James No Bryant came IA either " these
ships Those "no dl come ~ chrr OF lhesc vessels are
called Old CUmrT-' the iury'ithCI-,
tSee Hazard state fdpers J. PIP lOl.lVJ ana l9unE
Chruu. Of j.. grlm1, p. 3)&J On Iy - ln-H the
General Court divided lands and cattle belonging 20 The
on record. ana that record is believed contain The
name Of every family ana person N the Colony proper
Tie fac ,,,thcu, are that II Nh. Bpsuls weat-grand
father was IN Eng.ishmln BIZ pedigree IL u.t g'Hh'Iy
the Ma, flower; aud no matter how many generations ot
bis family nave u'td h THIS country none OF Lh,u M'to
o. the fugria hers ul Plymouth Colony. HErJHlus.
HOHcsIGls, FcHH June u, ISIS.
I.Historicus" loses sight of tho fact that after
her famous voyage the Mayilowcr made other trips
to America, which are matters Of history. In 1929
she was one Of the five vessels which brought over
Higgins sons compauyto SALIENT and iu 1850 she was
one of WIutArops fleet, which transported the
founders of Massachusetts, Colony The records
further say Of her: II - known that this Identical
famous vessel aitcrwarl hailed from various Eng
lish ports, such O, London. Yarmouth and south
amptou, and that 10 was much used .n transporting
emgrants TO :his country. What eventually ho-
came Of % and what was the end OF It, career ATE
unknown to history" 1t Is known that as early 80
1882 stephen BRYANT was az Plymouth; that Doe had
come from England, and that he married Abigail
shaw who had emigrltrd with her father. Between
1850 aud 1868 several children were born 10 BAN
AT Plymouth, and in 1868 hr was chosen constable.
The name Of the ship in which hc crossed is not
known That hc came in the Mayhowcr sat best
only a tradition. There no complete lists OF the
passengers carried By the Maytlowcr on her later
voyages On his mothers side Willam Cullen
Bryan0 certainly came OF MaylOwcr stock she
having been a descendant OF john Alden. lie also
had i'm his veins the blood OF Washburns, Towards
and Packsrds and through them that of Pilgrims
who landed on Plymouth Rock IN the Winter Of
1920. Until 1870 Ink was missing In the gene
alogy of the BRYANT family stephen, 1t is now re-
corded, had a son, also named stephen, who was
the father Of Ichabod Philip Bryant, known in
his time as DR.. Bryant was the son Of lchabod and
had himself q son named PctcT, also a physician,
who became the father Of the pDct-iorualist. The
Bryant Ccnealogy, therefore, stands: stephen,
stephen, Ichabod Philip, Peter, William Cullen
six generations instead Of four.-LdI