Ancestry of
William Cullen Bryant

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Silence Howard

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• • Grandmother of William Cullen Bryant — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Abiel Howard 
  • Mother:
  • Silence Washburn   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Nov 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 13 May 1739 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jun 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Snell Cemetery, Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Philip Bryant
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1757 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Peter Bryant (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Silence Bryant

• Sources for Silence Howard

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/06/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brockton, Vol. 1, p. 316, Death record for Silence Bryant.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 141, Birth record for Silence Howard.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 65, Baptism record for Silence Howard.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, East Bridgewater, Vol. 1, p. 231, Marriage record for Philip Bryant and Silence Howard.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2000, Vol. 154, p. 230.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 316.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20, 181.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 171.