When Prudence Breed was born on 7 November 1794, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, Joseph Breed, was 36 and her mother, Mercy 'Mary' Holmes, was 35. She married Prentice Morgan on 27 September 1818, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 September 1877, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hilliard Cemetery, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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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.
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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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