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- Thomas Bryan was apparently a Revolutionary War soldier. He participated in the Georgia land lotteries in the early 1800s. According to the book "Information on Some Georgia Pensioners," his wife may have been a Bennett. Thomas Bryan appears in the following records:
1790 - Elbert County, Georgia, tax digest
1790 - Elbert County, Georgia, census, Captain William Black's district
9 February 1791 - Name on a petition to the Governor from residents of Elbert County seeking a stay of execution for James Meredith who has a wife and four children who are in distress
1792 - Franklin County, Georgia, grantee
1792 - Elbert County, Georgia, land court sessions - mentions "self and four in family"
1797 - Elbert County, Georgia, land grant
1797 - John Baker Bennett of Richmond County, Georgia, sold land to "Thomas Bryan, father and first friend of Bennett Bryan"
1811 - witness in estate record of James Chandler of Franklin County, Georgia
1820 - Elbert County, Georgia, census (also in the county were Moses and John Bryan)
1822 - witnessed deed in Franklin County, Georgia
1825 - witnessed deed in Franklin County, Georgia
1835 - received land in lottery
1835 - purchased land from James Mann in Walker County, Georgia - Lot 256, District 12, Section 3
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Genealogy of the Bryan and Martin Families
1755 - Aft 1844 (~ 90 years)
d. 25 Jul 1878, Walker County, Georgia, USA 
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