Biography

09/30/1759 - 10/06/1821


BRYAN, Samuel, a Clerk from Philadelphia County; born, September 30, 1759 in Philadelphia County, Pa.; lawyer; secretary, Philadelphia Council of Censors (1784); elected, Chief Clerk, Pennsylvania General Assembly (October 25, 1784-October 26, 1786); Anti-Federal newspaper author (pseudonym Centinel) (1787-1788); appointed, Pennsylvania Register General of Public Accounts (1796-1801); appointed, Pennsylvania Comptroller General (1801-1805); elected, register of wills, Philadelphia (1809-1821); died, October 6, 1821 in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.


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