Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameHenry Fuller RYAN 
, 88
, 88Birth Date1795
Birth PlaceVirginia
Death Date17 Nov 1856176 Age: 61
Death PlaceKnoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceKnox, Tennessee, Old Gray Cemetery
OccupationWar Of 1812 Soldier, Private TN 8th E.TN Vol 4th E.TN Mil Lieut Wax’s Detach, TN, Mil, Carpenter,
FatherWilliam Wellington RYAN II , 176 (1774-1860)
MotherElizabeth Damron , 177 (1775-1840)
Spouses
1Nancy BRAKEBILL 47, 89
47, 89Birth Date23 Jan 1800
Birth PlaceSullivan County, Tennessee
Death Date25 Sep 1860 Age: 60
Death PlaceKnox County, Tennessee
FatherPeter BRAKEBILL , 178 (1760-1844)
MotherKatherine ROREX , 179 (1760-1850)
Family ID68
Marr Date25 Sep 1816
Marr PlaceBlount County, Tennessee
Marr MemoTennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825
Notes for Henry Fuller RYAN
Death of Fuller Ryan.
This day a week ago, the Democrats were firing a large Brass Cannon, on Methodist Hill, in honor of the election of Buchanan, when a premature discharge carried off both the arms, burnt out both the eyes, and otherwise severely bruised and mutilated the body of Fuller Ryan, who was engaged in ramming the gun at the time. He lived but a few hours, and was buried on Sunday.
Poor old man ! his party has used him for the last seven years, to our personal knowledge, to curse, blackguard, and otherwise insult decent men, who differed with them in politics. He will be missed on this account, but his "lack of service" can easily be supplied from the ranks of that party!
American Campaigner page 3. Monday, Nov 17, 1856 Knoxville, Tennessee.
Provided by Rebecca Snetselaar March 23, 2025.
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CANDIDATES.
We are Authorized and requested to announce Lewis Burris a candidate to represent Roane county in the lower branch of the General Assembly.
We are Authorized to announce Wm. A. Harris, a candidate to represent the counties of Jefferson, Grainger and Claibourn, in the Senatorial branch of the next Legislature.
We are authorized to announce John R. Nelson as a candidate to represent Knox county in the Senatorial branch of the next Legislature.
We are authorized and requested to announce Henry Fuller Ryan, as a candidate to represent Knox county in the lower branch of the next Legislature.
Knoxville Standard page 3. Tuesday, July 20, 1847 Knoxville, Tennessee.
Provided by Rebecca Snetselaar March 23, 2025.
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History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri (1889) lists:
info about Wiley J. Ryan including the following about his grandfather Fuller Ryan "Fuller Ryan, who was of Irish extraction, was a carpenter by trade, and died in Knoxville, Tenn."
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Served in War of 1812 as Private as Fuller Ryan
2nd Regiment (Lillard’s) East Tennessee Volunteers
4th Regiment (Bayles’) East Tennessee Militia177,178
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Company Pay Roll for Oct 8, 1813 to Feb 8, 1814.
Commencement of service or of this settlement, Oct 8, 1813.
Expiration of service or of this settlement, Nov 1, 1813.
Term of service charged, 23 days.
Pay per month, 8 dollars.
Amount of pay, 5 dollars, 93 cents.
Remarks: Deserted? 1" November 1813.
shown on the “Index to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers in Indian Wars 1815-1858” National Archives film M629, Roll 33 showing - Fuller Ryan with Lieut Wax’s Detachment, Tennessee, Mil 1815 PVT. same info for John P. Ryan who may be related.179
1850 census for Knoxville, Knox Co, TN Page 96, Family 48, Line - 36 “Rian”180
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The marriage license reads - State of Tennessee, Blount county - to any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of the peace for said county, Greetings
By Virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do hereby authorize & empower you or any of you to celebrate & perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan & Nancy Brakebill by having given bond & security as the law directs.
given under my hand at office the 25th day of Sept. 1816.
Theorem means - whose truth has been conjured.53
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Henry Ryan was the executor of the Last Will and Testament of Peter Brakebill, a soldier of the American Revolution. His will was filed in Blount Co, TN but has been lost. info from Clovis Brakebill 1/3/96
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birthdate also listed as about 1798 in VA; also Blount Co, TN; death date also listed as 1840;
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KNOXVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Stacks was appointed town marshal about 1840, and he served until 1859, when he retired from the police force. He was the whole police department until 1854, when Fuller Ryan was appointed his assistant. But Mr. Ryan's term was short-lived, and soon Elijah Dunn, father of W. W. Dunn, who is now in the money order department of the local postoffice [sic], was named as his successor.75
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The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies, including Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Bermuda.
The war lasted from 1812 to 1815, although a peace treaty was signed in 1814. By the end of the war, 1,600 British and 2,260 American soldiers had died. In addition, tens of thousands of slaves escaped to British lines because of their offer of freedom, or they just fled in the chaos of war. The British settled a few thousand of the newly freed Americans in Nova Scotia.
Great Britain had been at war with France since 1793 and in order to impede neutral trade with France in response to the Continental Blockade, Britain imposed a series of trade restrictions that the U.S. contested as illegal under international law. The United States declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812 for a combination of reasons, including outrage at the impressment (conscription) of American sailors into the British navy, frustration at British restraints on neutral trade, and anger at alleged British military support for American Indians who were hostile to the United States.
Overview
The war started poorly for the Americans in August 1812, when an attempt to invade Canada was repulsed by Major-General Isaac Brock and a force of 350 regular British troops he commanded (supported in turn by local militias and American Indians). This led to the British capture of Detroit. A second invasion on the Niagara peninsula was defeated on October 13, 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights at which Brock was killed. The American strategy relied in part on militias, but they either resisted service or were incompetently led. Financial and logistical problems also plagued the American effort. Military and civilian leadership was lacking and remained a critical American weakness until 1814. New England opposed the war and refused to provide troops or finance. Britain had excellent finance and logistics, but the war with France had a higher priority, so in 1812–13 it adopted a defensive strategy. After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the British were able to send veteran armies to the U.S., but by then the Americans had learned how to mobilize and fight.
At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded much of the coastline, though allowing substantial exports from New England, which was trading with Britain and Canada in defiance of American laws. The blockade devastated American agricultural exports but helped stimulate local factories that replaced goods previously imported. The American strategy of using small gunboats to defend ports was a fiasco, as the British raided the coast at will. The most famous episode was a series of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, including an attack on Washington D.C. that resulted in the burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Yard and other public buildings, later called the "Burning of Washington", which avenged the burning of York, today's Toronto, in the previous year. The Americans were more successful sending out several hundred privateers to attack British merchant ships; British commercial interests were damaged, especially in the West Indies.
The decisive use of naval power came on the Great Lakes and depended on a contest of building ships. In 1813, the Americans won control of Lake Erie and cut off British and native forces to the west from their supplies. Control of Lake Ontario changed hands several times, with neither side able or willing to take advantage of any temporary superiority. The Americans ultimately gained control of Lake Champlain, and naval victory there forced a large invading British army to turn back in 1814. The Americans destroyed the power of the native people of the northwest and southeast, securing a major war goal. Once Britain defeated France, it ended the trade restrictions and impressment of US sailors, thus removing another cause of the war. Both Great Britain and the United States agreed to a peace that left the prewar boundaries intact.
In January 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was signed but before the US Congress had received a copy to ratify, the Americans succeeded in defending New Orleans, and the British captured Fort Bowyer before news of the treaty reached combatants on the south coast.
The war had the effect of uniting Canadians and also uniting Americans more closely than either population had been. Canadians remember the war as a victory by avoiding conquest, while Americans celebrate victory personified in Andrew Jackson. He was the hero of the defense of New Orleans and was elected the 7th President of the United States in 1829.181
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1850 Census182
1840 Census
1830 Census183
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War Of 1812, 8th E.TN Vol, 4th E.TN Mil Lieut Wax’s Detach., TN, Mil PVT
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This day a week ago, the Democrats were firing a large Brass Cannon, on Methodist Hill, in honor of the election of Buchanan, when a premature discharge carried off both the arms, burnt out both the eyes, and otherwise severely bruised and mutilated the body of Fuller Ryan, who was engaged in ramming the gun at the time. He lived but a few hours, and was buried on Sunday.
Poor old man ! his party has used him for the last seven years, to our personal knowledge, to curse, blackguard, and otherwise insult decent men, who differed with them in politics. He will be missed on this account, but his "lack of service" can easily be supplied from the ranks of that party!
American Campaigner page 3. Monday, Nov 17, 1856 Knoxville, Tennessee.
Provided by Rebecca Snetselaar March 23, 2025.
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CANDIDATES.
We are Authorized and requested to announce Lewis Burris a candidate to represent Roane county in the lower branch of the General Assembly.
We are Authorized to announce Wm. A. Harris, a candidate to represent the counties of Jefferson, Grainger and Claibourn, in the Senatorial branch of the next Legislature.
We are authorized to announce John R. Nelson as a candidate to represent Knox county in the Senatorial branch of the next Legislature.
We are authorized and requested to announce Henry Fuller Ryan, as a candidate to represent Knox county in the lower branch of the next Legislature.
Knoxville Standard page 3. Tuesday, July 20, 1847 Knoxville, Tennessee.
Provided by Rebecca Snetselaar March 23, 2025.
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History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri (1889) lists:
info about Wiley J. Ryan including the following about his grandfather Fuller Ryan "Fuller Ryan, who was of Irish extraction, was a carpenter by trade, and died in Knoxville, Tenn."
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Served in War of 1812 as Private as Fuller Ryan
2nd Regiment (Lillard’s) East Tennessee Volunteers
4th Regiment (Bayles’) East Tennessee Militia177,178
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Company Pay Roll for Oct 8, 1813 to Feb 8, 1814.
Commencement of service or of this settlement, Oct 8, 1813.
Expiration of service or of this settlement, Nov 1, 1813.
Term of service charged, 23 days.
Pay per month, 8 dollars.
Amount of pay, 5 dollars, 93 cents.
Remarks: Deserted? 1" November 1813.
shown on the “Index to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers in Indian Wars 1815-1858” National Archives film M629, Roll 33 showing - Fuller Ryan with Lieut Wax’s Detachment, Tennessee, Mil 1815 PVT. same info for John P. Ryan who may be related.179
1850 census for Knoxville, Knox Co, TN Page 96, Family 48, Line - 36 “Rian”180
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The marriage license reads - State of Tennessee, Blount county - to any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of the peace for said county, Greetings
By Virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do hereby authorize & empower you or any of you to celebrate & perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan & Nancy Brakebill by having given bond & security as the law directs.
given under my hand at office the 25th day of Sept. 1816.
Theorem means - whose truth has been conjured.53
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Henry Ryan was the executor of the Last Will and Testament of Peter Brakebill, a soldier of the American Revolution. His will was filed in Blount Co, TN but has been lost. info from Clovis Brakebill 1/3/96
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birthdate also listed as about 1798 in VA; also Blount Co, TN; death date also listed as 1840;
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KNOXVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Mr. Stacks was appointed town marshal about 1840, and he served until 1859, when he retired from the police force. He was the whole police department until 1854, when Fuller Ryan was appointed his assistant. But Mr. Ryan's term was short-lived, and soon Elijah Dunn, father of W. W. Dunn, who is now in the money order department of the local postoffice [sic], was named as his successor.75
————————————————
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies, including Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Bermuda.
The war lasted from 1812 to 1815, although a peace treaty was signed in 1814. By the end of the war, 1,600 British and 2,260 American soldiers had died. In addition, tens of thousands of slaves escaped to British lines because of their offer of freedom, or they just fled in the chaos of war. The British settled a few thousand of the newly freed Americans in Nova Scotia.
Great Britain had been at war with France since 1793 and in order to impede neutral trade with France in response to the Continental Blockade, Britain imposed a series of trade restrictions that the U.S. contested as illegal under international law. The United States declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812 for a combination of reasons, including outrage at the impressment (conscription) of American sailors into the British navy, frustration at British restraints on neutral trade, and anger at alleged British military support for American Indians who were hostile to the United States.
Overview
The war started poorly for the Americans in August 1812, when an attempt to invade Canada was repulsed by Major-General Isaac Brock and a force of 350 regular British troops he commanded (supported in turn by local militias and American Indians). This led to the British capture of Detroit. A second invasion on the Niagara peninsula was defeated on October 13, 1812 at the Battle of Queenston Heights at which Brock was killed. The American strategy relied in part on militias, but they either resisted service or were incompetently led. Financial and logistical problems also plagued the American effort. Military and civilian leadership was lacking and remained a critical American weakness until 1814. New England opposed the war and refused to provide troops or finance. Britain had excellent finance and logistics, but the war with France had a higher priority, so in 1812–13 it adopted a defensive strategy. After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the British were able to send veteran armies to the U.S., but by then the Americans had learned how to mobilize and fight.
At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded much of the coastline, though allowing substantial exports from New England, which was trading with Britain and Canada in defiance of American laws. The blockade devastated American agricultural exports but helped stimulate local factories that replaced goods previously imported. The American strategy of using small gunboats to defend ports was a fiasco, as the British raided the coast at will. The most famous episode was a series of British raids on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, including an attack on Washington D.C. that resulted in the burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Yard and other public buildings, later called the "Burning of Washington", which avenged the burning of York, today's Toronto, in the previous year. The Americans were more successful sending out several hundred privateers to attack British merchant ships; British commercial interests were damaged, especially in the West Indies.
The decisive use of naval power came on the Great Lakes and depended on a contest of building ships. In 1813, the Americans won control of Lake Erie and cut off British and native forces to the west from their supplies. Control of Lake Ontario changed hands several times, with neither side able or willing to take advantage of any temporary superiority. The Americans ultimately gained control of Lake Champlain, and naval victory there forced a large invading British army to turn back in 1814. The Americans destroyed the power of the native people of the northwest and southeast, securing a major war goal. Once Britain defeated France, it ended the trade restrictions and impressment of US sailors, thus removing another cause of the war. Both Great Britain and the United States agreed to a peace that left the prewar boundaries intact.
In January 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was signed but before the US Congress had received a copy to ratify, the Americans succeeded in defending New Orleans, and the British captured Fort Bowyer before news of the treaty reached combatants on the south coast.
The war had the effect of uniting Canadians and also uniting Americans more closely than either population had been. Canadians remember the war as a victory by avoiding conquest, while Americans celebrate victory personified in Andrew Jackson. He was the hero of the defense of New Orleans and was elected the 7th President of the United States in 1829.181
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1850 Census182
1840 Census
1830 Census183
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War Of 1812, 8th E.TN Vol, 4th E.TN Mil Lieut Wax’s Detach., TN, Mil PVT
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Notes for Nancy (Spouse 1)
NANCY 2 BRAKEBILL (PETER) (#65) was born in Sullivan Co, TN January 23, 1800. NANCY died 25 September 1860 in Knox Co, TN, at 60 years of age. She married HENRY FULLER RYAN in Blount Co, TN, September 25, 1816. (HENRY FULLER RYAN is #3587.) HENRY was born 1795 in Virginia. HENRY died before 1860 in Knox Co, TN. His body was interred in Knoxville, TN, Old Gray Cemetery. A license for Henry Ryan and Nancy Brakebill to marry was issued in Blount County, TN on September 25, 1816 but the minister never returned it to the County Clerk.
The marriage license reads as follows:
State of Tennessee, Blount County: To any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of the peace for said County, Greetings: "By virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do authorize and empower you or any of you to celebrate and perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan and Nancy Brakebill by having given bond and security as the law directs."
Fuller Ryan and his wife, Nancy, are listed on the 1850 US Census for Knox County. Also included in the family are children Henry, Sally, William, Susan, and Arthur.
Henry was a private in the 8th Tennessee volunteers 4th East Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. After the war, he was a carpenter. Her name was Nansie as originally written in German.
Nancy (Brakebill) Ryan is listed on the 1860 Tennessee Census with her daughter, Sallie, and her granddaughter. Fanny, age 2, the daughter of Sally Ryan. Page 1147
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Might have had a son between Morgan & John named Peter. Also other possible sons are Hamilton and Harvey both in later census in Knox Co.
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1860 Census176
1850 Census182
1830 Census183
The marriage license reads as follows:
State of Tennessee, Blount County: To any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of the peace for said County, Greetings: "By virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do authorize and empower you or any of you to celebrate and perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan and Nancy Brakebill by having given bond and security as the law directs."
Fuller Ryan and his wife, Nancy, are listed on the 1850 US Census for Knox County. Also included in the family are children Henry, Sally, William, Susan, and Arthur.
Henry was a private in the 8th Tennessee volunteers 4th East Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. After the war, he was a carpenter. Her name was Nansie as originally written in German.
Nancy (Brakebill) Ryan is listed on the 1860 Tennessee Census with her daughter, Sallie, and her granddaughter. Fanny, age 2, the daughter of Sally Ryan. Page 1147
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Might have had a son between Morgan & John named Peter. Also other possible sons are Hamilton and Harvey both in later census in Knox Co.
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1860 Census176
1850 Census182
1830 Census183
Notes for Henry Fuller & Nancy (Family)
A license for Henry Ryan and Nancy Brakebill to marry was issued in Blount County, TN on September 25, 1816 but the minister never returned it to the County Clerk.
The marriage license reads as follows:
State of Tennessee, Blount County: To any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of
the peace for said County, Greetings: "By virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do authorize and
empower you or any of you to celebrate and perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan and Nancy
Brakebill by having given bond and security as the law directs.”
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Fuller Ryan and his wife, Nancy, are listed on the 1850 US Census for Knox County. Also included in the family are
children Henry, Sally, William, Susan, and Arthur
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Henry was a private in the 8th Tennessee volunteers, 4th East Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. After the
war, he was a carpenter. Her name was Nansie as originally written in German.
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The marriage license reads as follows:
State of Tennessee, Blount County: To any regular minister of the gospel having theorem of said or to any Justice of
the peace for said County, Greetings: "By virtue of the full power of authority in me vested, I do authorize and
empower you or any of you to celebrate and perform the rites of matrimony between Fuller Ryan and Nancy
Brakebill by having given bond and security as the law directs.”
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Fuller Ryan and his wife, Nancy, are listed on the 1850 US Census for Knox County. Also included in the family are
children Henry, Sally, William, Susan, and Arthur
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Henry was a private in the 8th Tennessee volunteers, 4th East Tennessee Militia during the War of 1812. After the
war, he was a carpenter. Her name was Nansie as originally written in German.
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