When James Joseph Breeden was born in 1758, in Anne Arundel, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Enoch Breeden, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was 28. He married Susanna Stallings on 21 January 1779, in Calvert, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1790 and District 2, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1800. He died in 1807, in Calvert, Maryland, United States, at the age of 49.