Page 43 - The Ancestry of Francis Bryan (1770-1863)

This is the earliest genealogy of the family and in accuracy should take priority. Another of Morgan's grandsons, Daniel Bryan, in an interview transcript from 1843 by Lyman Draper at the Historical Society of Wisconsin, gives a genealogy of the family but adds little.
William Smith Bryan, a great-grandson (born 1846), wrote in the 1876 edition of the above mentioned book on page 132:
“William Bryan, a native of Wales, came to America with Lord Baltimore, about the year 1650, and settled in Maryland. His wife was of Irish descent, and they had three children William, Morgan, and Daniel. Of the succeeding two or three generations of this family nothing is definitely known, but the original stock, settled in Roan county, North Carolina. He married Sally Bringer, who was of German descent, and they had eleven children." [names follow, mostly those of Morgan, but not a correct list].
His account says no more about Morgan's alleged father or brothers, but this would seem to appear to be a genuine tradition, at least in part, rather than an outright fabrication.
Then, in William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York: Southern History Co., 1899), vol. 1, p. 260, there is a biographical sketch of John Gano Bryan, a great-grandson of Morgan. This was probably written by Bryan Obear, his grandson. This is the original source for much of the later "ancestry":
“Sir Francis Bryan was ambassador to the Court of France. Lady Margaret Bryan, by an Act of Parliament, was made foster mother to Queen Elizabeth. William Smith Bryan, their cousin, who was the acknowledged head of the family, and a lineal descendant of Brian Boru, King of Ireland, was transported to the colony of Virginia from Ireland as a rebellious Irish subject, by the English government in 1650, with his family, goods, and chattels, consisting of a shipload. He settled Gloucester County. He had eleven sons. Francis Bryan, his eldest son returned to Ireland in 1677, to recover his hereditary titles and estates.
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