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Information on David Bright

From "Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes", by Ruth Woods Dayton, pg. 307:

The Callisons and the Brights are frequently spoken of jointly, and the fact of the son of one family married the daughter of the other hardly seems fully to explain the custom. The two families surely had some mutual feeling that drew them together. Perhaps each still had the love of England in their hearts, though the Callisons had left England for Ireland, and the Brights had long before gone from England to Germany in search of religious freedom. Both families made their way to America at an early date, the Brights to Pennsylvania and the Callison's to Tennessee.

A son, David Bright, came to Greenbrier in 1784, bringing with him, according to tradition, a famous family heirloom desk said to have accompanied the family from England to Germany and, with later generations to America. In his will, recorded in 1808, David left the desk to his wife, and it is still in the possession of a Greenbrier descendant, Mrs. Henry Gilmer, of Lewisburg.

1. ↑ Source (51). (Source:Green, Albert Gallatin. Historical Sketch of the Bright Family).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Source (413).