JOHN BRIANT bought the farm that John and James Walker purchased of the town, being first division of upland laid to School Lot No. 63, bounded on the East Wing and Ministry Lot. Mr. Briant, on Jan. 6, 1757, was married to Esther, daughter of Samuel and Mindwell Stone, and grand-child of Dea. Stevens, by whom he had several children, part of whom died young. John was born Dec. 21, 1757, married Tabitha Moore; Mindwell, born
Oct. 18, 1759, married to Abel Parmenter, March 13, 1785;
Isaac, born Jan. 6, 1762, married Betsy How of Princeton, in 1788. There are now several great-grand children of Mr. John and Mrs. Esther Briant, now living in Rutland, in a direct line from Dea. Stevens, being some of six generations that have lived in Rutland.
