When Richard Breeden was born on 7 June 1791, in Calvert, Maryland, United States, his father, James Joseph Breeden, was 33 and his mother, Susanna Stallings, was 33. He married Sarah Lockhart in 1817. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 31 July 1864, in Moores Hill, Dearborn, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Ripley, Indiana, United States.