Born in Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America
Ancestors 
Daughter of Stephen Breed
and Esther (Wheeler) Breed
Sister of
Stephen Breed, Alice (Breed) Williams, Silence (Breed) Chalker, Hannah W. (Breed) York and Frederick William Breed
Wife of
Oliver Grant IV
— married
about 1801 in Groton, Connecticut, United States of America
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Esther Grant, Oliver Burrows Grant, Ann Miner (Grant) Safford and Lucy Breed (Grant) Spalding
Died
at age 79
in North Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Jul 2012
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Biography
This Esther Breed, born 18 Jan 1782 @ Stonington, Connecticut, was the first child of Esther (Wheeler) & Stephen Breed.
She married in 1801 @ Groton, Connecticut, Oliver Grant IV (1779-1813). Their marriage notice was published June 9, 1802 [1].
They had 4 children:
- Mary Esther Grant (1802-1842)
- Oliver Burrows Grant (1804-1891)
- Ann Miner (Grant) Safford (1807-1875); married Orrin Safford
- Lucy Breed (Grant) Spalding (1810-1888); married Daniel Brown Spalding
Esther Grant was enumerated in the household of her son Oliver Burrows Grant during the 1860 census of Stonington, Connecticut [2].
Esther (Breed) Grant died 9 Oct 1861 @ North Stonington, Connecticut. Her grave is in Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA [3].
Sources
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9FB-1FB9?i=1091
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRW-2LP : 18 February 2021), Esther Grant in entry for O B Grant, 1860.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #59175958
- Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 668-7: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/398/mode/1up
- Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 248, no. 114: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n270/mode/1up; p. 403, no. 54: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n425/mode/1up
- Breed Family Association #16 (March, 1963), Charles B. Newhall et.al.; p. 36, 79 no. 288: https://archive.org/details/BreedFamilyAssociationVol161963OCR/page/n122
- The Grant Family, p. 78: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/78/mode/1up
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John French Ph.D.
Breed-944 and Breed-138 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband, actuarial dates, children
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