Martha (Newhall) Breed (1722 - 1749)

Born 18 Dec 1722 in Lynn, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Descendants

Died 17 Apr 1749 at age 26 in Lynn, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Martha Newhall, child of John Newhall and Elizabeth Potter, was born on 18 December 1722 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.^[1]

Martha Newhall and Theophilus Breed announced their intention to marry on 7 April 1745 at Lynn, Massachusetts ^[2]. They married on 10 December 1745 ^[3]. They had 2 children ^[4]:

1. Lydia (Breed) Johnson (1746-1776)
2. Martha (Breed) Newhall (1749-1827)

Martha (Newhall) Breed died (age 26) on 17 April 1749 in Lynn, Massachusetts.^[5] Her grave is represented to be in Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. ^[6] No grave marker is depicted, however a transcribed grave marker inscription appears in the cited caption:

Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Martha Breed, the wife of Mr. Theophilus Breed, aged 26 years. Died April ye 17th 1749.

Notes

After the death of Martha, her widower married Martha's sister, Mary Newhall. They had two children.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #81826085 (accessed 25 April 2024)
   Martha Newhall born on 18 Dec 1722, child of Josephb Newhall & Elizabeth Newhall, in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP86-G54D : 11 May 2022), Theophilus Breed and Martha Newhall, 7 Apr 1745; citing Marriage, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004269393.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8X-QNYB : 11 May 2022), Theophilus Breed and Martha Newhall, 10 Dec 1745; citing Marriage, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009707.
4. ↑ Breed Family Association Vol. 13 (1934), p. 560, no. 28: https://archive.org/details/Vol13Dec.1934imagedByP.EverettOCRByJRF/page/n11
5. ↑ Death: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
   Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #81843447 (accessed 25 April 2024)
   Martha Breed death 17 Apr 1749 (age 26) in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #55022143

• Breed Family Association 5th annual meeting (March 11, 1926) record book, Sarah Ellen Breed, ed.; p. 134, no. 65:

• Waters, Henry F. The Newhall Family of Lynn, Massachusetts, Part I. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1882. Page 43.

• Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Volume II: Marriages and Deaths. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1906. Page 436.

• Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Volume I: Births. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1905. Page 291.

• MacDonald, Marion A., The Newhall Family of Lynn, The Essex Genealogist (Essex Society of Genealogists, Mass., 1995) Vol. 15, Page 47.