Mary Breed (1733 - 1767)

Born 6 Jan 1733 in Lynn, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Breed — married 18 Dec 1755 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 7 May 1767 at age 34 in Lynn, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Merle Wagner [send private message]

Biography

NOTE: This is NOT the Mary Breed (of Stonington) who married Benajah Pendleton (of Stonington). The original entries for both Marys and Benajah have now been corrected. This case illustrates a basic problem with reliance upon automated search engines to ostensibly link people based on proximate birth dates and other actuarial data. Parsimony is encouraged.

This Mary Breed was born 06 JAN 1733 @ Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the eighth child of Susannah (Newhall) & Joseph Breed.

She married 18 Dec 1755 Josiah Breed ^[1],^[2]. They had 5 children, all born at Lynn, Massachusetts:

• Mehitable Breed; married Theophilus Bacheller
• Allen Breed; married Lucy Taylor
• Nathaniel Breed; married Susannah Davis
• Charles Breed; married Tamer Chever
• Joseph Breed; married Mary Haskell

Mary (Breed) Breed died 07 MAY 1767 @ Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her grave is in Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ^[3]. The inscription transcribed from her grave marker reads:

Here lies buried the body of Mrs. Mary Breed, wife of Mr. Josiah Breed, and daughter of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Susannah Breed who departed this life May the 7th 1767, in the 34th year of her age.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC8-4H2V : 11 May 2022), Josiah Breed and Mary Breed, 18 Dec 1755; citing Marriage, Essex, England, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011221.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1G-5Q8 : 28 December 2022), Mary Breed in entry for Josiah Breed, 1755.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #55022940

• Breed Family Association Vol. 5 (1926), p. 130, no. 72; Breed Family Association Vol. 11 (1932), p. 442, 445, no. 28: https://archive.org/details/breedfamilybree_1/page/n178; Breed Family Association Vol. 13 (1934), p. 558, 562, no. 35: https://archive.org/details/Vol13Dec.1934imagedByP.EverettOCRByJRF/page/n13

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