Nathaniel Breed (1685 - 1760)

Born 24 Aug 1685 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Davis) Breed — married 31 Mar 1708 in Boston, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 22 Nov 1760 at age 75 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

See Breed Family Association #11 (December, 1932), p. 441, no. 2, transcribed as follows: (Capt.) Nathaniel(4) Breed, b. Lynn, Mass., Aug. 24, 1685; married (at Second Church, Boston, by Cotton Mather) on March 31, 1708-9, Sarah Davis, d. March 5, 1739-40, ae. 54 years, 10 mos. (gr-stone Copp's Hill, Boston). She was a descendant of George(1) Davis, a blacksmoth and ship-owner of Boston, and his wife Barbara (who married (2) John Brimblecom and (3) Thomas(1) Chadwell of Lynn). He married (2) Sept. 22, 1741, Deliverance(4) Courser, b. Oct. 14, 1704 (John(2-3), William(1) who died before date of husband's will, Nov. 22, 1760, when he bequeaths all wearing apparel "of my late wife, Deliverance to daughter Anna." In this will, allowed Oct. 2, 1761, he leaves the balance of his estate to his four children, Nathaniel, William, Elizabeth and Anne, equally. On Aug. 2, 1765 at the time of the division of his estate the heirs are listed as follows: to daughter Anna Darracott, son Nathaniel, deceased, son William, deceased, and daughter Elizabeth Richardson. He was a mariner. He is also described in documents as a baker. [JRF]

Nathaniel was the eldest of Allen Bread and his wife, Elizabeth Ballard.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ 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).
2. ↑ "Breed Genealogy." (1907) The Essex Antiquarian, Archive.org (Vol 11:146).

• Breed Family Association #11 (December, 1932), John Breed Newhall, chair, genealogical committee; p. 441, no. 2: https://archive.org/details/breedfamilybree_1/page/n176