Bryants in Washington, NC

First, I would like to say that this is a great forum that you have and I have seen in a few postings in your forum that the name Bryant is a Cherokee/Black foot name. On my mother’s side we have a number of Bryant’s and we have kind of hit a dead end. There is a Mahalia Bryant who was born around 1790 and lived to be 108 years old. This is where everything seems to stop, we don’t know where she was from or her background. What we do know is that one of her daughter’s, Ann Bryant, became the slave of a slaveowner by the name of Lewis who lived in Washington, NC (word has it that he owned a store in Washington called Lewis’?) and with him she had 4 children. I think that she was also living at some point in Beauford County, NC.If anyone knows anything about Mahalia Bryant I would be more than happy to know.