American Ancestry of Frank Nickolas Bryan 1620-2002

From Pilgrim to both Patriots and Loyalists; from Yankees to Southern plantation owners: these are my ancestors.They came to North America starting in 1620 on the Mayflower and the last arrived in Ontario Canada about 1835. Most predate 1700.

Many of my mother's ancestors were Connecticut Yankees, but there are ties to every New England state plus New York and New Jersey. The Burritts migrated west from Connecticut to New York and from there to Illinois. The Stouts settled New Jersey and moved west to Kentucky and from there to Indiana and finally Iowa. The Smiths came from New England to New York and from there to Iowa. The Fords came from Massachusetts to Vermont and then to Illinois. Their descendants all wound up in Colorado among the first families of Delta County.

My father's family dates back to 1638 Maryland, left after the Revolutionary War for what would become part of West Virginia, and then Van Buren County, Iowa, Scotland County, Missouri, and finally Neosho County in Southeast Kansas. My father hopped the rails during the depression at age 15 and resettled in Colorado, married, divorced, served the War effort during WW II in Guam, and then remarried my mother in Delta County in 1948. Four children followed in close order in their new chosen home in the wilds of Idaho. That effort failed and my parents returned to Delta County, Colorado, then Mesa County, then Aspen, and finally Cortez, where both died and are buried.

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• Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Frank Nickolas Bryan