When Brees was born in 1806, in Basking Ridge, Bernards Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, his father, Stephen Carpenter Brees, was 51 and his mother, Nancy Bayles, was 42.
Flemish: from a vernacular form of the personal name Brictius (see Brice ).
English: variant of Breese .
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