When Joseph Samuel Breck was born about 1754, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Breck, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooley, was 32. He married Eunice Allen on 23 October 1777. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 4 March 1804, in Kinderhook, Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, United States, at the age of 51.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
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.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic breac ‘speckled’.
Irish: variant of Breakey .
English: metathesized form of Berk, see Birks and compare Berks and Brick .
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