Andrew Bryson
1752 - 1835 (83 years)-
Name Andrew Bryson Birth 1752 Lancaster Co, PA 
Gender Male Reference Number 266 _TAG Military Service _UID 96D1888DD2DAD4118AC44445535400008B34 Death 5 May 1835 Haywood Co, NC (now Jackson Co, NC) Person ID I4101 Marty and Karla Grant Last Modified 28 Jan 2023
Father William Bryson, b. Abt 1720, Antrim Co, Ireland d. Aft 1790, Pendleton Dist, SC (Age > 71 years) Mother Isabella Holmes, b. Abt 1720 d. Aft 1790, Pendleton Dist, SC (Age > 71 years) Marriage Bef 28 Oct 1749 Lancaster Co, PA Family ID F2701 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Agness Naill, b. PA d. 1796, Pendleton Dist, SC Marriage 17 Dec 1783 Rowan Co, NC (now Iredell Co, NC) Children 1. Elizabeth Bryson, b. 3 Apr 1787, Rowan Co, NC (now Iredell Co, NC) d. Abt 1872, Swain Co, NC (Age 84 years)2. Sarah Bryson, b. 28 Sep 1789, Iredell Co, NC d. 10 May 1880, Jackson Co, NC (Age 90 years)3. James Nail Bryson, b. 1794/1795, Pendleton Dist, SC (now Anderson Co, SC) d. 1870/1880, Jackson Co, NC (Age 85 years)Family ID F2688 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2026
Family 2 ? d. 1811/1817, Haywood Co, NC (now Jackson Co, NC) Marriage 1796/1798 Pendleton Dist, SC or Iredell Co, NC Children 1. Isabella Bryson, b. 23 May 1799, Iredell Co, NC d. 1870/1880, Haywood Co, NC (Age 80 years)2. Andrew Bryson, b. 25 Jan 1804, Buncombe Co, NC (now Jackson Co, NC) d. 4 Oct 1828, Haywood Co, NC (now Jackson Co, NC) (Age 24 years)3. Nancy Bryson, b. 9 Feb 1811, Haywood Co, NC (now Jackson Co, NC) d. 11 Jul 1877, Jackson Co, NC (Age 66 years)Family ID F2704 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2026
Family 3 Sally d. Aft 1817, Macon Co, NC Marriage Bef 9 Aug 1817 Haywood Co, NC Family ID F2705 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jan 2026
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1790 Census Entry
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Notes - !NOTES:Marty Grant's 6th Great Grand Parent.;
!MARRIAGE BOND:17 Dec 1783 Rowan Co., nC
Andrew Bryson
Agness Naill
James Naill, bm;
!CENSUS:1790 Pendleton Co, SC pg 82 Andrew BRYSON age 16+ (bef 1774) "1-0-3-0-0";
!CENSUS:1800 * Iredell Co, NC pg 654 Andrew BRISON age 45+ (bef 1755) "11211-32011" * May not be same Andrew;
!MENTIONED:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janelle/Intruders.htm
SETTLERS AND INTRUDERS ON CHEROKEE INDIAN LANDS 1801-1816
(And a few other goodies)
Abstracted from the Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records. National Archives Microcopy M-208, Rolls 1-7, 13.
Transcribed by Janelle Swearingen 1989
Page 3
[In January of 1804 a white man James Wood killed an Indian child and wounded his father near Pigeon in Buncombe County North Carolina. The Secretary of War instructed RJM to travel to that place to look into the matter and to offer a reward of $500 for the apprehension of Wood. after Feb 23, 1804]
From Andrew Bryson
Rec'd 25 Aug 1804
Sir I take the liberty of informing you that James Wood that is blaimed for wounding the yalow Bere and ciling his childe have been taken in South Carolina and been commited to Burk jail and his friends of the name of Welshes his bail him out and he is in the settlement that the murder was don in and the Welshes have tolde thier friends that lives on the frontteres if wood is changed or that for them to move in for the are under oath to kill sum of the Cherikkees sir the people is at a lose to now what to do in the meter if he is to be tried at the bond or ware. Sende riten ansers to William Cathes on Richland Creek this is the voise of the well wishers in generl to the Laws of our cuntry July the 25 day 1804 Andrew Bryson to Mr. J. Meggs at South West Point;
!PETITION:1806 for formation of Haywood County from western Buncombe ... Andrew BRISON ...;
!CENSUS:1810 * Not found in NC or SC, census lost for GA, and TN;
!COURT:25 Dec 1810 Haywood Co, NC pg 49 John FUNK? vs Jesse ANDERSON and John NELSON. Jury ... Andrew BRYSON ...;
!RESERVATION: 9 Aug 1817 Under Cherokee Treaty of 1817, Andrew BRYSON in right of his wife, requests Reservation "Near the Nar ford on Tuckaseedge";
!NAMED:1817 Reservation Roll - Andrew Bryson, Sally Bryson;
!CENSUS:1820 * Not found in NC, census lost for GA, and east TN;
!CENSUS:1830 * Not found in NC or SC or GA or TN;
- !NOTES:Marty Grant's 6th Great Grand Parent.;