GENEALOGY OF THE BRYANT FAMILY - of South Jersey (NJ)
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Source: The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing 
sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and 
illustrations specially prepared, by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, 
1900

BRYANT FAMILY
Isaac Bryant and his family emigrated from Scotland to Canada about the year 1780. His son (2) William 
was then a baby. When the boy was older, so the family traditions runs, he ran away from his Canadian home, 
and came to Philadelphia, where he learned the trade of a blacksmith. He found employment at old Martha 
iron furnace, in Burlington County, and there married Mariby Clifford, of Tuckerton, and had a family 
of five children: (3) Hettle, (4) Isaac, (5) John, (6) Hannah, (7) George.

In the War of 1812, William, the father, enlisted, and saw service with Commander Oliver Perry, who 
vanquished Commodore Barclay on lake Eire in that memorable engagement of September 13, 1813. William 
died at the home of his son John, when he was in charge of the salt works on Absecon Beach, about 1838.
(5) John Bryant was born in Philadelphia in 1803. He probably learned the trade of his father. When 
a young man he went to Martha Furnace, where he was employed smelting iron for Daniel Lake, whose 
sister, Sarah, he married. About 1836 he moved to this Island from Lehman’s Beach, in Cape May county,
to operate the salt works at the “Point of Beach,” or near Baltic and Maine avenues, In 1840 he moved 
to what is now South Atlantic City, where he operated another salt plant and where he continued to live
for thirty five years. There he was in charge of the Government Life Saving Station, and was a wrecking 
master when vessels came ashore, which they often did in those days.

In a story and a half house, 24x24, with a little bedroom in one corner and two rooms up stairs, 
he lived, selling salt, oysters and clams, and rearing a large family of children. It was here 
that ex-mayor John Lake Bryant was born and passed his boyhood days with plenty of rough experience.
It was here that John Lake Young passed his early years at the home of his grandfather, after the
death of his father, James Young and his mother Mary Ann Bryant.
  
A few years before his death, which occurred April 3, 1878, when sick and infirmed
he moved his family to this city to a cottage owned by his wife on Georgia avenue,
where a room was especially prepared for him. The old house was torn down so that
his return to it should be an impossiblility. His widow, Sarah Lake Bryant, 
survived him several years, dying February 16, 1895, aged 87 years, 
   
The children were:
(8) Alice, who died young.
(9) Margaret, b. August 30, 1828, m. Lake Albertson, d. August 1876.
(10) Mary Ann, b. June 20, 1830, m. James Young, b. 1856.
(11) Abigail, b. May 20, 1832; d. 1846.
(12) Sarah Jane, b. May 10, 1834; m. Thomas Sampson; d, 1858.
(13) Hannah, b. March 23, 1836; m. Thomas Westcott; d. July, 1872.
Their only child William Carter Westcott, b. October 25, 1868, is the well-known druggist of this city.
(14) Clara, b. March 21, 1836; m. Alfred Adams, in 1859, and had seven children: Lewis Reed, 
b. January 10, 1860, m. Sarah Inman; Alfred Barclay, b. November 30, 1861, m. May Lindley; 
George C., b. May 6, 1864, d. September 1865; May Olive. B. August 14, 1866; Carrie, b. October 26, 1869; 
Bentley Bryant, b. December 21, 1871; and Pauline, b. August 3, 1875, m. Fred S. Holmes, and lives in Pittsburg.
(15) Asenath, b. March 21, 1840; m. John Sloan, has one child, Charles, and lives at Spring Lake, N. J.
(16) Elnora, b. May 29, 1842, m. Benjamin Willits, d. October 1, 1879, had five children: Elmer, b. November, 1861, 
d. 1895; Sallie, b. February 1865, m. Thomas Lotton; William, b. April 1863, m. Ella Royal; George, b. August 1870, 
m. Lizzie Wicks; John, b. May 1873, m. Emma Lee.
(17) John Lake, b. April25, 1844, at the home of his uncle, Lucas Lake, at Pleasantville; m. on Tuesday, 
January 8, 1870, Sarah Thompson; d. October 8, 1883. He was a contractor and builder and was prominent 
in public affairs. He was a member of Council in 1875 and 1880; Mayor in 1878, and was elected to the 
State Assembly the year before he died, serving during the session of 1883. His only surviving issue is 
Lieut-Col. Lewis Bryant of the Morris Guards.
(18) George C., b. May 14, 1846; m. Amanda Leeds; d. September, 1872, He was a member of the Council in 1872.
(19) Abbie T., b. December 16, 1846; m. Christopher Wolbert, and had four children: Ethel and Lottie twins; 
Ethel, m. William Rice and Lottie m. Roland Lake; Charles and Hattie.
(20) Harriet S. b. January 11, 1853; m. Solomon Johnson. 
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