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From Pilgrim to Puritan, Anglican to Baptist, these are my ancestors. They begin witht he Mayflower, and most arrived in North America prior to 1700; the last about 1835 to Ontario, Canada. They have been both British Loyalist and American Rebels, having fought on both sides of the Revolutionary War. They were Connecticut Yankees on my mother's side and Maryland slaveholders on my father's side, but of all I am proud.
My mother's lineage (Burritt) traces back to early Stratford, CT, then NY, Illinois, and finally to Colorado while it was still a territory. My father's lineage (originally O'Brian, but now Bryan) traces back to colonial Maryland, early Baltimore, then to what would become West Virginia, then Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and then Colorado during the depression.
I have Dutch Loyalist lineage through the family of Brower, additional Dutch connections through the families of Vrooman, Veeder, Mebie, and Borsboom; probable Irish-Cherokeee lineage through the Dougherty family; red headed Irish and Scotchmen on both sides (Dougherty, Boyle, Duncan, Davisson, Ewing, and Harrison), but most of my ancestry is English, and includes such notable names as Stout, Burrowes, Burr, Hull, Hawley, Ford, Smith, Chamberlin, Read, Lapham, Andross, Calkins, Colegrove, Fillmore, Millard, Oldham, Wooster, Wheeler, and Brewster, as well as Burritt (Alglo-Welsh) and Bryan (Anglo-Irish).
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