Ancestry of
William Jennings Bryan

41st U.S. Secretary of State

Abijah Brainard

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of William Jennings Bryan — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 102 
  • Father:
  • James Brainard 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Dudley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Nov 1706 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 22 Mar 1798 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1738 
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  Abijah Brainard

  Leah Brainard (Ahnentafel No:51 )

  Jeptha Brainard

  Rachel Brainard

  Dorcas Brainard

  Uriah Brainard

  Asaph Brainard

  Shubael Brainard

  Thankful Brainard

  Cornelius Brainard

  Mercy Brainard

• Additional marriages for Abijah Brainard

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  • Spouse:
  • Esther Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Dec 1727
  • Marriage Location:
  • Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

• Sources for Abijah Brainard

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1940, Vol. 17, p. 168.
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant, 2011, Vol. 60, p. 63.
  • ³ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 171-172.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 55.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, ""John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 196-200.