Ancestry of
William Jennings Bryan

41st U.S. Secretary of State

Sylvanus Freeman

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Jennings Bryan — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 50 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Freeman 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Apr 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Greensboro, Orleans, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Leah Brainard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Oct 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Charity Freeman (Ahnentafel No:25 )

• Sources for Sylvanus Freeman

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 12072, Membership application for Mary Bryan Allen.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1940, Vol. 17, pp. 166, 168-169.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 2011, Vol. 60, pp. 63, 65.
  • 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), 55-56.
  • ⁵ White, Lillie Pauline, Jennings, Davidson and Allied Families: A Genealogical List and History of the Descendants of the . . ., Seattle, Washington: Sherman Printing and Binding Co. (1944), 16.