Brief Life History of Josiah
When Josiah Breed was born on 16 December 1731, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Breed, was 42 and his mother, Lydia Gott, was 33. He married Mary Breed on 5 October 1755, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 12 December 1790, in his hometown, at the age of 58.
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- Josiah Breed, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Josiah Breed, "Find A Grave Index"
- Josiah Bread, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Name Meaning
English (Bedfordshire): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) broad place’, typically a cultivated strip of land in an area of common land, from Middle English brede (Old English brǣdu ‘breadth’), or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, for example Brede in Sussex, named from the same word with the sense ‘broad valley’.
Dutch: nickname for a well-built man, from breed ‘broad’.
History: The American bearers of the surname Breed are in many cases descended from Alan Breed, who came to Salem, MA, from England in 1629, and subsequently settled at Saugus, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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