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From: "Jerry Bryan" <>
Subject: [BRAY-L] 1790 Census, Chatham County, North Carolina
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:58:30 -0500


Here's some additional information to throw into the pot of the recent
discussion of the various Henry's and Edwards.

The only extant copy of the 1790 Chatham County census was copied from the
original in alphabetic order. Hence, it is not possible to draw any
conclusions about who was living close to whom.

There are supposed to be five columns of data for the 1790 census: 1) number
of free white males age 16 or older, 2) number of free white males less than
16 years old, 3) number of free white females, 4) number of other free
persons, and 5) number of slaves. In Chatham County, the enumerator added a
sixth column which is simply the sum of the other five columns.

I have annotated the entries with my best guesses as to everybody was.
Further discussion of the two Edwards will follow.

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p.210, Edward Bray Sr. 322007

males >= 16 bef. 1774 3 Edward Bray Sr.
males < 16 1775-1790 2
females 2
other free 0
slaves 0
total 7

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p.210, Edward Bray Jr. 102003

males >= 16 bef. 1774 1 Edward Bray Jr.
males < 16 1775-1790 0
females 2
other free 0
slaves 0
total 3

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p.220, Henry Bray 102003

males >= 16 bef. 1774 1 Henry Bray Jr.
males < 16 1775-1790 0
females 2 Sarah Yokley
other free 0
slaves 0
total 3

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p.220, Mathias Bray 132006

males >= 16 bef. 1774 1 Mathias Josiah Bray
males < 16 1775-1790 3
females 2 Isabella Edwards
other free 0
slaves 0
total 6

Mathias Josiah Bray was the son of Henry Bray Jr. and Sarah Yokley.

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p.220, James Bray 112004

males >= 16 bef. 1774 1 James Bray
males < 16 1775-1790 1 Henry Bray
females 2 Anne Welch
other free 0
slaves 0
total 4

James Bray was the son of Henry Bray Jr. and Sarah Yokley.

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p.220, Wm. Bray 101002

males >= 16 bef. 1774 1 William E. Bray
males < 16 1775-1790 0
females 1 Margaret Wilson Brooks
other free 0
slaves 0
total 2

William E. Bray was the son of Henry Bray Jr. and Sarah Yokley.

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It's natural to jump to the conclusion that Edward Sr. and Edward Jr. were
Edward who married Sarah Maynard and their son Edward who married Nancy Anna
Dowdy. The trouble with that conclusion is that Edward who married Sarah
Maynard died in 1760.

I wonder if Edward Sr. and Edward Jr. were really father and son. Sometimes
in old records when there were two people with the same name, the elder one
was called Sr. and the younger one was called Jr. (e.g., Edward the elder
and Edward the younger) irrespective of family relationships. I even have
records of an Elizabeth Bryan Sr. and an Elizabeth Bryan Jr. in my Bryan
records. So I don't know who the two Edwards were.

Jerry Bryan

(P.S., Elizabeth Bryan Sr. and Jr. were sisters, the elder one being the
daughter of Allen S. Bryan Sr. and his first wife Elizabeth Hubbard and the
younger one being the daughter of Allen S. Bryan Sr. and his second wife
Elizabeth McSpadden. To make matters worse, Allens S. Bryan Jr. married
Elizabeth Underwood -- far to many Elizabeth's in that family! The Sr.
and Jr. notation for the sisters Elizabeth appeared in the Allen S. Bryan
Sr. family bible.)

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