Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Breed was born on 3 June 1729, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Allen Breed, was 22 and his mother, Huldah Newhall, was 22. He married Rebecca Merriam on 14 October 1750, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died before 4 April 1774, in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Joseph Breed, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Joseph Breed, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Joseph Breed, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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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