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'''Peter Bryan Bruin''' (1756 – 1827) was a soldier, planter, and territorial judge originally from [[Virginia]], who later settled on the [[Louisiana]]-[[Mississippi]] border lands.

'''Peter Bryan Bruin''' (1756 – 1827) was a soldier, planter, and territorial [[judge]] originally from [[Virginia]], who later settled on the [[Louisiana]]-[[Mississippi]] border lands.

Born in Winchester, Virginia, he was a son of  Bryan Bruin and the former Elizabeth Humphreys. He was educated at the College of Philadelphia in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He served thereafter in the [[American Revolutionary War]], having risen to the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He was wounded and captured at [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], and subsequently fought in [[New Jersey]] and [[North Carolina]]. He was wounded a second time at the bloody battle of Brandywine near Philadelphia. He was aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan, fought at Newport, [[Rhode Island]], and in campaign against  Indians in northern [[New York]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-b/|title=Bruin, Peter Bryan|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses multiple sources for the article on Bruin: William S. Coker, “Peter Bruin: Record as Soldier, Judge, Settler,” Mississippi Sesquicentennial Edition, ''Natchez Democrat,'' January 1968; “Peter Bryan Bruin: Soldier, Judge and Frontiesman,” ''West Virginia History,'' XXX (1969); “The Bruins and the Formulation of Spanish Immigration Policy in the Old Southwest, 1787-88,” in John Francis McDermott, ed., T''he Spanish in The Mississippi Valley, 1763-1804 (1974); “Peter Bryan Bruin: Soldier, Frontiersman and Judge,” Vol. IV: The Spanish Borderlands Series (Pensacola, Florida); “Colonel Peter Bryan Bruin: Virginia, Spanish West Florida, and Louisiana Planter,” in R. Alton Lee, ed., ''Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite'' (1986).</ref>

Born in Winchester, Virginia, he was a son of  Bryan Bruin and the former Elizabeth Humphreys. He was educated at the College of Philadelphia in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He served thereafter in the [[American Revolutionary War]], having risen to the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. He was wounded and captured at [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], and subsequently fought in [[New Jersey]] and [[North Carolina]]. He was wounded a second time at the bloody battle of Brandywine near Philadelphia. He was aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan, fought at Newport, [[Rhode Island]], and in campaign against  Indians in northern [[New York]].<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-b/|title=Bruin, Peter Bryan|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses multiple sources for the article on Bruin: William S. Coker, “Peter Bruin: Record as Soldier, Judge, Settler,” Mississippi Sesquicentennial Edition, ''Natchez Democrat,'' January 1968; “Peter Bryan Bruin: Soldier, Judge and Frontiesman,” ''West Virginia History,'' XXX (1969); “The Bruins and the Formulation of Spanish Immigration Policy in the Old Southwest, 1787-88,” in John Francis McDermott, ed., T''he Spanish in The Mississippi Valley, 1763-1804 (1974); “Peter Bryan Bruin: Soldier, Frontiersman and Judge,” Vol. IV: The Spanish Borderlands Series (Pensacola, Florida); “Colonel Peter Bryan Bruin: Virginia, Spanish West Florida, and Louisiana Planter,” in R. Alton Lee, ed., ''Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite'' (1986).</ref>

In 1781, Bruin married the former Elizabeth Edmonds (c. 1759-1807) of Fauquier County, Virginia. The couple had six children:  Elizabeth (1781-1857); Sophia (c. 1787-1827); Maria; Matilda; Edmonds; Timothy (last two names may be incorrect). After the Revolutionary War, Bruin owned the plantation “Roscommon” on the [[Potomac River]] in Berkeley County, Virginia. He moved to nearby Bath, Virginia, and became a merchant. In 1788, he emigrated to what was then Spanish West Florida, where he acquired the plantation  “Castle Bruin” at Bruinsburg, near Natchez, Mississippi.<ref name=lahist/>

In 1781, Bruin married the former Elizabeth Edmonds (c. 1759-1807) of Fauquier County, Virginia. The couple had six children:  Elizabeth (1781-1857); Sophia (c. 1787-1827); Maria; Matilda; Edmonds; Timothy (last two names may be incorrect). After the Revolutionary War, Bruin owned the plantation “Roscommon” on the [[Potomac River]] in Berkeley County, Virginia. He moved to nearby Bath, Virginia, and became a merchant. In 1788, he emigrated to what was then Spanish West Florida, where he acquired the plantation  “Castle Bruin” at Bruinsburg, near Natchez, Mississippi.<ref name=lahist/>

He was a Mississippi territorial [[judge]] from 1798 to 1809, in which capacity he participated in the [[Aaron Burr]] hearing of 1807. He took ownership of still another plantation on the shores of Lake Bruin, an oxbow lake of the [[Mississippi River]] in Concordia and Tensas parishes, Louisiana. For a number of years, he lived on the lake and now a state park that bears his name. He died in 1827 and is interred near Bruinsburg, now a ghost town in Claiborne County, Mississippi.<ref name=lahist/>

He was a Mississippi territorial [[judge]] from 1798 to 1809, in which capacity he participated in the [[Aaron Burr]] conspiracy hearing of 1807. He took ownership of still another plantation on the shores of Lake Bruin, an oxbow lake of the [[Mississippi River]] in Concordia and Tensas parishes, Louisiana. For a number of years, he lived on the lake, now a state park, that bears his name. He died at the age of seventy and is interred near Bruinsburg, now a ghost town in Claiborne County, Mississippi.<ref name=lahist/>

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