Bryant Homestead Middlesex,Mass.

Abraham Bryant (1), the immigrant ancestor of Sarah Frances Bryant, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, who married Warren A. Harris, of Millbury, was one of the early settlers of Reading, Massachusetts. He was born m England about 1640. He was a blacksmith by trade. His home was on what is now Elm street on the south side, west of Joseph Hartshorn's place.

He married (first), 1664, Mary, daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall. She died in 1688 and he married (second) Ruth Frothingham, of Charlestown. She was widow of Samuel Frothingham, and died in 1693.

Children of Abraham and Mary Bryant were:
Mary, born 1666, married, 1684,John Weston;
Rebecca, born 1668, died 1670;
Abraham (2), born 1671, father of Abraham(3), who settled in Sudbury; Thomas, born 1674;
Anna, born 1676;
William, born 1678;
Kendall, born 1680;
Abigail, born 1683,died 1694;
Tabitha, born 1685.
John Bryant was born 1722, and died 1795. He had two
wives ; the first was Margaret Smith, the second Anna Lar-
com, both natives of Beverly.
His children were :
Benjamin,
Jonathan,second son, married Sarah Norwood, and they were the parents of John, Anna, and Sarah Bryant.
Mary,
Lydia,
Elizabeth,
Sarah,
and John.
Jonathan,
Mr.John Bryant died, and his widow married John Derby,of Harvard, Mass.She died June 30, 1829,having been the mother of eleven
children. Of the three children of John and Sarah Bryant,
Sarah died while young,and Anna,who was blind, died at
the age of twenty-four, while John, who was born 1772,
married Sarah Brown, April 28, 1807, and they had eight
children: John, born May 3, 18 10; Sarah, Jonathan, Anna,
Brown, Lydia Nichols, Maria, Benjamin. Mr. John Bryant is
still living at fourscore and five years of age, and Jonathan at
eighty. Anna, Maria, and Benjamin still lived at the old
homestead. Lydia N. married Edwin Mudge, a prominent
citizen of Danvers ; is a widow, and still resides there with
her daughter. Sarah Frances Bryant married Warren Harris
of Millbury, a highly esteemed citizen of that place, where is
still her residence. The house has been built in which this
family reside nearly ninety years.

Jonathan Bryant, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Brown)
Bryant, was born Jan. 11, 1815. He married Sarah P.
Spokesfield, of Reading, 1839. She was the mother of his
children, of whom three are living. She died 1873. He
married Mrs. Hannah P. Pringle, 1874, who died February,
1884. Nov. I, 1885, he married Mrs. Susan E. Green, of
Reading. He is a farmer ; was postmaster several years,
and was town treasurer nine years. He is a public-spirited
citizen and a representative man of Lynnfield.