1667 according to passenger ship records of immigrants from England, Ireland, and Wales during that time. He may have been the son of John Sene, who was recorded as a French Huguenot, who most likely was exiled to Ireland because of religious prosecution. Daniel had 3 sons of record: James, Denis, and Byrant. This family tree is a record of the Descendants of Bryant Seaney.
Bryant was born in Ireland in 1662 and most likely stayed behind with his mother, while his father made a home in Maryland for his family. It is recorded that Bryant didn't come to Maryland until 1682, two years before he married Ann Newton. Most of the family stayed in Maryland a long time until about the time when the United States was created as a nation.
If it weren't for a new Ancestral project called DNA and some extensive digging of research, I may have never found out about my Ward family heritage. Bryant's son, James, married a Frances (who may have already been married once to a Dorsett). A small article about DNA came up from Rootsweb.com that highlighted the close relations between Wards and Sweaneys. Through this research, I came to the conclusion that James' wife Frances was born Frances Ward, daughter of Susannah Swanson and James Ward. Sometime after Susannah and James Ward's children were born, Susannah had an affair with one George Wells (court documents and restraining orders of the day document this alleged affair). After James died of his terminal illness, Susannah married George Wells, and yet again through some simple research, a family link confirmed my DNA problem; Frances and James Sweaney named one of their sons George Wells Sweaney after Frances's step-father! My mystery of the family link was finally solved.
