Richard Breeden Jr (abt. 1738 - bef. 1798)

Born about 1738 in Culpeper, Virginia

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Died before 25 Jul 1798 before about age 60 in Shelby, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Richard Breeden Jr was a Virginia colonist.

Richard Breeding (Breeden)

When Richard Breeden was born about 1738 in Virginia,^[1] his father, Richard, was 22 and his mother, Eleanor, was 37.

He married Frances (Fannie) Fairchild in 1760. His birth year on the U.S.and International Marriage Records is 1738.^[2] They had ten children in 33 years.

Richard is on the 1795 Kentucky, compiled Census and Census Substitutes, Tax list page 006.^[3]

He died on July 25, 1798, in Shelby, Kentucky, at the age of 60.

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Parents

Richard “Cross” Breeding was born 1698 in Brumfield Parish, Culpepper County, VA. His father may have been Bryant Breeding of James City County, VA. He married Eleanor Cross 1731 in Culpepper County, VA. She was born 1701 in Christ Church Parish, Middelsex County, VA. Following their marriage he went by the name Cross. They had seven children: Ossaman, Job Richard, Anne, Abner, Elijah, Drusilla, and Richard. A man named Richard Breeding served as a private in the Revolutionary War. This was likely their youngest son. Eleanor died in 1753 and Cross died 15 Mar 1773 at age 75 in Culpepper County, VA.^[4]

Marriage

m. (abt. 1774 Virginia) Frances Fairchild

Child: William Breeden

Child: Paul Breeden

Child: Mildrid Breeden

Child: James Breeden

Child: Elijah Breeden

Child: John Breeden

Child: Richard Breeden

Child: Frances Anne Breeden

Child: Henry Breeden

Child: Bland Ballard Breeden

Military

Between 1779 - 1782: Revolutionary War

• soldier- Illinois Regiment of Virginia State, Rev. War^[5]

Note

Richard Breeding ll Revolutionary War Service

"He was engaged as a farmer and when the colonists fought for independence he entered the Continental Army and did good service. His wife, a patriotic woman, sat up nights and moulded bull-its for the soldiers in the fort nearby." History of Jackson County (Iowa), pp. 364-365.

After the war, Richard and another brother, left Job on the Virginia homestead and took their families to Lawrence County, Kentucky to establish their own homesteads. During an Indian encounter, Richard's brother and his brother's two sons were killed. Richard survived, moved to Shelby County near Louisville, built a pioneer home, cleared land for farming, and with Fannie raised a large family of eleven children. In 1797 Richard purchased 211 acres of land from Alexander Breckenridge on Plum Creek in Shelby Co., Kentucky. He died the following year in March 1798.

His will named Frances, his widow, as executer, and Frances, Elizabeth, Paul, and William as beneficiaries. The family name was spelled Breeding at that time. A daughter named Frances married William Cohen on November 24, 1808 and died before August 3, 1839. She may have been the Frances listed as executer instead of the wife whose name was also Frances. By the time Frances, the daughter, died the other children had scattered: Paul to Louisiana; James, William, Elijah and Richard, Jr. to Indiana. Elizabeth was a charter member of the Buck Creek Baptist Church with was the Plum Creek church near Finchville.

Fulten County Illinois History, 1890.

1. Name: Richard Breeding Jr 1 2 3
2. Sex: M
3. Birth: 1738 in Virginia
4. Death: 1798 in Shelby County, Kentucky

Sources

1. ↑ American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Volume 18; Page 146; Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, saliors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):90
2. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Source number: 351.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CLE
3. ↑ Kentucky, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1890; https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3549&h=8986529&ssrc=pt&tid=55664693&pid=13904514928&usePUB=true
4. ↑ Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. [Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease]
5. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-F2NL : 18 March 2018), Richard Breeding, 1780; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711079.

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