Ancestry of
Edwin Bryant

California Expedition Journalist

Edwin Bryant

View famous kin of Edwin Bryant

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Ichabod Bryant 
  • Mother:
  • Silence Bryant   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Aug 1805 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Dec 1869 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Notes: 

  • Author of What I Saw in California which chronicles his overland journey to California in 1846 and includes the harrowing account of the ill-fated Donner Party who were also traveling to California in that same year.

• Sources for Edwin Bryant

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Pelham, Vol. 1, p. 20, Birth record for Edwin Bryent.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2001, Vol. 155, p. 198.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Edwin Bryant (alcalde)", (accessed 11/14/2018).