When Thomas Breeden was born on 2 February 1780, in Maryland, United States, his father, Joseph Breeden, was 29 and his mother, Susanna Stallings, was 25. He married Martha Ann Everet on 10 February 1802, in Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. In 1850, at the age of 70, his occupation is listed as carpenter in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States. He died in 1851, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71.
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In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.
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.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English: habitational name from Bredon in Worcestershire or from Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, both of which are named from an unattested Celtic word brez ‘hill’ + the tautologous addition of Old English dūn ‘hill’.
English: variant of Braden 2 or 3.
Americanized form of German Breden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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