Eighth Generation

136. Benjamin BRYANT^103,202 was born on 16 December 1688 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. He died on 4 May 1724 at the age of 35 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. He drowned "off Plymouth shore from his ship trying to make port in a storm" with John Ransom and Francis Cooke, Jr., according to article in NEHGS by D. Alden Smith, "The Descendants of Stephen Bryant and Plymouth and of His Son-in-Law Lt. John Bryant of Plympton," Vol 154.

On 19 May 1724 Benjamin Eaton of Plympton was appointed adminstrator of the estate of Benjamin Bryant of Plympton. On 30 April 1725 Benjamin Eaton posted bonds as guardian of Hannah, Jerusha, Jesse, Mercy, Micah, and Phebe Briant. On 22 Dec 1733 David Sears of Plimton, mill wright, and wife Phebe gave receivpt for their share of the estate... on May 19, 1739, Benjamin Cushman, as guardian of Jesse Bryant, gave receipt. (The Francis Eaton Family, Generation IV. Mayflower Society, 1996). Hannah EATON and Benjamin BRYANT were married on 31 July 1712 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA.²⁰³

137. Hannah EATON¹⁰³ was born on 10 February 1692 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 4 March 1724 at the age of 32 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. She "drowned on plimouth shore." She's #157 in the Degory Priest silver book and is a descendant of Francis Eaton as well.

Children were:

	i.	Phebe BRYANT²⁰⁴ was born on 18 September 1713 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 9 October 1779 at the age of 66 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA.
	ii.	Mercy Ruth BRYANT was born on 3 January 1714 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 27 January 1775 at the age of 61 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.
	iii.	Hannah BRYANT was born on 24 March 1717 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. She died after 1774 at the age of 57.
	iv.	Micah BRYANT was born on 2 April 1719 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. He died on 28 January 1776 at the age of 56 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. He was buried in Nemasket Cemetery, Middleborough, MA. Plympton VRs, 41. Micah Bryant's family is treated in both "Family of Francis Eaton," Mayflower Families through Five Generations, originally comp. by Lee Douglas van Antwerp; revised by Robert S. Wakefield (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996), 102-03, and Robert M. and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Henry Samson of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, Mayflower Families in Progress (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995), 20, 67-68. Micah died intestate and his son Micah was appointed adminstrator on March 4, 1776. A detailed inventory dated October 4, 1776, taken by Nathaniel Bumpus, Joseph Leonard, and Nathaniel Wilder.
	v.	Jerusha BRYANT was born on 7 February 1722 in Plympton, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 25 April 1743 at the age of 21 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.
68	vi.	Jesse BRYANT.