When Joseph Breeden was born in 1776, in Maryland, United States, his father, James Joseph Breeden, was 18 and his mother, Susanna Stallings, was 18. He married Frances Copeland on 4 April 1812, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States in 1840. He died after 1840, at the age of 65.