Hannah, born 1720, died in infancy; Hannah, born January 15, 1721 (0. s.), married (first) Amos Bond, of Watertown, and (second)

Wheeler, of Concord; Sarah, born 1726, married Thomas Clarke; Mary, born April, 1731, married David Bemis. Nathaniel Bright, Jr., died in Watertown, December 14, 1737.

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(IV) Nathaniel Bright, only son of Nathaniel (1686-1737) and Mary (Coolidge) Bright, died at the homestead in Watertown, October 21, 1754. He was a tanner. married Sibil, daughter of Captain Samuel and Abigail (Reed) Stone, of Sudbury, and a descendant from Deacon Gregory Stone, of Cambridge and Watertown.

(V) John Bright, son of Nathaniel and Sibil (Stone) Bright, was born in Watertown, February 5, 1754. He carried on the tannery, as well as a small farm. His father died in 1754, the year of John's birth, and his mother married, in 1757, Samuel White. They probably lived in the Bright homestead where John Bright was brought up. On reaching his majority he became possessed of the homestead. Ill health prevented his attending college. He was selectman, justice of the peace, tythingman, highway surveyor, hay ward, fence viewer, sealer of leather, and a member of the school committee at various times, 1780 to 1819. He was married September 24, 1778, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Esther (Mason) Brown, and a descendant of Abraham and Lydia Brown, early settlers of Watertown, and of Captain Hugh Mason, also an early settler of Watertown. John and Elizabeth (Brown) Bright had ten children: John, born 1779, died 1858, bachelor; Charles, born 1781, died 1823; Mary, born 1783, died 1788; Francis, born 1784, died 1804; Anna, born 1786, died 1788; Josiah, born March, 1789, married Eulalie Mary Anne Sanquinet, of St. Louis, Missouri, and after her death married Angelique, widow of Pierre Tesson, and after her death Elsie Le Blanc, and he died in St. Louis, July, 1822; Anne, born 1791, died 1818; Henry,, born 1793 (q. v.); Mary, born 1796, died 1879; Jonathan Brown Bright (q. v.).

(VI) Jonathan Brown Bright, son of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Bright, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, April 23, 1800, and worked on his father's farm and in the tannery in Watertown, when not attending the district school at Waltham and Westford Academy, 1814, and Framingham Academy, 1816. În 1817 he accompanied his brother Josiah, a resident of St. Louis, to that city, making the

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journey by sea on board a brig as far as New Orleans, and thence to St. Louis by a river boat. He remained in St. Louis for four years in the employ of Sanquinet & Bright, of which house his brother was junior partner. He meantime spent one winter in New Orleans, and in travel through Alabama in the interest of the St. Louis house. In 1821 he went to St. Stephens, Alabama, where his brother Henry resided. He was engaged in merchandising in Selma, Alabama, 1822-24, his brother Henry having an interest in the store. Here he was stricken with fever in 1824, and took passage in a sailing vessel from Mobile to New York, where he was clerk in the cotton brokerage house of James Blackstock, on Pine street, and in 1827 he became a partner in the business. He was married November 2, 1827, to Mary Huguenin Garbrance, daughter of Peter and Jane (Van Buskirk) Garbrance, of Albany, New York, the Rev. James Matthews, of New York, performing the marriage ceremony, and their only child, Elizabeth Garbrance, was born in New York City, September 27, 1828, and was baptized by the Rev. James Matthews, in the vestry of the Dutch Reformed church on Garden street, New York. Mrs. Mary Huguenin (Garbrance) Bright died at Red Hook, Dutchess county, New York, in 1830, when twentyfour years of age, and she was buried in the graveyard of the Dutch Reformed church at Upper Red Upper Red Hook, Dutchess county, New York. At this time Elizabeth Garbrance Bright was but nineteen months old. The concern of Blackstock, Merle & Bright was burned out in the great fire in New York in 1835, and in 1836 Mr. Blackstock retired, and the firm of Merle & Bright removed to Hanover street, and soon after Mr. Gourlie was admitted as a partner. In the spring of 1849 Mr. Bright retired from business and returned to his early home in Waltham, where he soon after began the compilation of a genealogical record of the Bright family not only in Ameriica, but also in England, with its various branches traced out as separate branches of the parent stock. He prepared in connection with this work many intricate and carefully considered genealogical charts with corresponding biographical data, giving personal history of great value. This valuable material was carefully preserved by his daughter, Elizabeth Garbrance Bright. Jonathan Brown Bright died at the Bright homestead in Waltham, Massachusetts, December 17, 1879.

(VI) Henry Bright, sixth son and eighth child of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Bright,