Notes on Bryan Boru O'Banon
also "Bryant", "Brien". Father is perhaps "John". Though it is widely thought he came originally from Ireland, it has not been proven and all attempts to find an overseas link have thus far been fruitless.
Bryan (O'Bannon) Obanon is the first known O'Bannon to come to America. The earliest known record is a land purchase (in Richmond County, Virginia, Deed, Bk. 8, pp 20 -23) a lease and release deed of John Sharpe and wife and Linchfield Sharp and
wife to "Bryant Obaning" of Westmoreland in ye Colony of Virginia, Planter, three hundred acres (300) in Hanover Parish, of Richmond County, Virginia same lying above the falls of Rappahannock River, on the north side of it being a part of a tract
of twelve hundred and fifty acres taken up and Patented June 5, 1704 by Thomas Knight of Northumberland. In the release it states that Bryan was of Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia. SOURCE: Mildred Ames, "The O'Bannon
Genealogist," volume 1, No. , page 1.
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