Allen Bread II (bef. 1631 - 1707)

Born before 27 Jan 1631 in Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1707 after age 76 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Allen Bread II immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

This family's surname was spelled "Bread" with few exceptions until about 1690. Since then, Breed has been the general spelling ^[1][2][3].

Origin

Allen was baptized 27 January 1630/1 at Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, England,^[4] the eldest child of Allen Bread and his first wife, Elizabeth Wheeler (pp 200-201).^[5]

Some older publications, by Cutter and the Lynn Historical Society, report a birth date in 1626, but this is in error.^[6][5]

Immigration

Marcia Wiswall Linberg, in her comprehensive article about the family, points out that we do not know the date of Allen Bread, Sr.'s immigration, "His name does not appear on any extant passenger list."^[5] According to Cutter (and family tradition), Bread immigrated 12 June 1630 to Salem, Massachusetts, as part of Winthrop's Fleet, but neither Anderson, nor the Winthrop Fleet Society, includes him among those passengers.^[5]

Essex Antiquarian only says "as early as 1630."^[1] . As his son Allen was baptised in Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire on 27 Jan 1630/31and his daughter Elizabeth on 26 Dec 1634 an emigration date of Jun 1630 for father and son can't be right.^[7]

Allen, Sr. first settled at Lynn sometime before 1638, when he participated in the distribution of the "six-mile grant."^[5]

Note: the above statements pertain to this Allen Bread's father, Allen (b. 1601 at Pulloxhill (Bedfordshire), England. The son Allen Bread (this profiled person) immigrated with his father.

Wife's Maiden Name Confirmed

Allen married ca. 1654 at Lynn, Mary Sargent ^[8],^[9].

In The Mayflower Descendant, an article includes the will of Ruth (Sargent) Winslow Bourne Chipman. Ruth was the daughter of William Sargent and his 3rd wife, Sarah. In her will, written December 6, 1710, Ruth mentioned her "Kinsman Joseph Bread" and the other children of "my sister Bread." Ruth and Mary were half-sisters.^[10]

Mary (Sargent) Bread died "30: 9: 1671," which was 30 November 1671 according to the Julian calendar which prevailed at the time ^[11].

Occupation

Allen lived on the 230 acres in the western section of Lynn, which he had inherited from his father; he was a farmer and husbandman.^[5]

Allen was a freeman in Lynn, Massachusetts, 7 May 1684.^[12]

Death and Legacy

Allen died at Lynn sometime between 1704 (will written) and 11 February 1707 (will recorded).^[5]

Children

Children of Allen and Mary:^[5]

1. Timothy Bread, eldest b c. 1656; mar 1) Sarah Newhall, 2) Sarah Bran
2. Joseph Bread b 12 Feb 1657; mar Sarah Farrington
3. Allen Bread b 30: 6: 1660; mar Elizabeth Ballard
4. John Bread b 28: 11: 1662; mar Mercy Palmer
5. Mary Bread b 24: 6: c 1664; mar Thomas Lewis
6. Elizabeth Bread, b 1: 9: 1667 (1 Nov 1667), d 16 June 1709; mar as his 1st, Thomas Burrage and he mar as his 2nd, Elizabeth Davis
7. Samuel Bread b 25: 7: 1669; mar Anna Hood

NEHGR 3:352 reports that 3 of Allen's sons, Joseph, John, and Allen III, were made freemen on 18 April 1691.

Research Notes

The Register of the Lynn Historical Society published an article in 1906 in which they reported that Allen's second wife, Elizabeth (Unknown) (Ballard) (Knight) Bread, was the mother of all of Allen Bread's children.^[13] This cannot be accurate, as Elizabeth was married to William Ballard and having children with him (1633-1636) during the time when Allen Bread's children were born, (and his children were born much before the marriage between Allen and Elizabeth).

[Note: The above passages & statements refer to the father Allen Bread b. 1601 at Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, England, not to his son Allen b. ~1626 also at Pulloxhill, who immigrated with him. Elizabeth Wheeler, the first wife of Allen Bread, likely was the mother of all three of his children: Allen (this profile), Elizabeth, John.]

The FindaGrave memorial representing this Allen Breed has now been revised as a result of this WikiTree profile, hence is now more accurate ^[14].

Accounts as published by Cutter on this family should be viewed with a high degree of skepticism, as there is little evidence to support associations contained therein, and several items have been effectively refuted.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Breed Genealogy." (1907) The Essex Antiquarian, Archive.org (Vol 11:145).
2. ↑ Robert C. Anderson, in "Great Migration," series (profiles of others)
3. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, (1995) "William Ballard, Featured Name." Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. AmericanAncestors.org NEHGS, (Vol A-B, Page 148-50).
4. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 3 March 2017. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7} Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall, (1991) "The Breed Family: Descendants of Allen Breed (or Bread) of Lynn." The Essex Genealogist. AmericanAncestors.org (Vol 11, Pages 196-203).
6. ↑ Cutter, William Richard, (1908) Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston ... New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908, HathiTrust.org (Vol 2, Page 706) unreliable
7. ↑ The parish register of Pulloxhill 1553-1812. https://archive.org/stream/bedfordshirepari22bedf#page/4
8. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/167620312
9. ↑ Volney Plumb, "Allen2 Breed's Wife Identified as Mary Sargent," in The Essex Genealogist, vol. 13 (1993: 166)
10. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, (1901) "Elder John Chipman's Will and Inventory, and the Will of Ruth Chipman." The Mayflower Descendant ... Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, AmericanAncestors.org NEHGS, (Vol 3, Page 185)
11. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMR-2YZ : 17 January 2020), Mary, 1671
12. ↑ Andrews, H.F. (arranger). [ https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028814304#page/n5/mode/2up List of Freemen Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1630 to 1691]. (Exira, Iowa: Exira Printing, 1906.) p# https://archive.org/details/cu31924028814304/page/n11
13. ↑ Lynn Historical Society, (1906) "Some of the descendants of Richard Hood, William Basset and Thomas Farrar; who lived on Nahant, Broad and Lewis Streets 1700-1840." The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Volumes 10-12. HathiTrust.org (Vol 10, Page 86) unreliable
14. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #130593503

• Breed Family Association 5th annual meeting (March 11, 1926) records, Sarah Ellen Breed, ed.; p. 125: https://archive.org/details/Vol51926imagedByP.EverettOCRByJRF/page/n25/mode/2up

• Breed Family Association record book #8 (1929), John Breed Newhall, ed., p. 225, para. 6: https://archive.org/details/Vol8Dec.1929imagedByP.EverettOCRByJRF/page/n12/mode/1up