SAMUEL BREED

(1669-1755) - Lynn & Nahant, Essex co., MA

(Fourth Generation - Breed Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
ALLEN BREAD, JR.
MARY SARGENT



BIRTH, DEATH & BURIAL Samuel was born in 25d:7m(September):1669 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[2,62], as "Bread, Samuell", and died in Lynn, MA before 15 February 1755; he was 85. He was buried on 15 February 1755 in Old or Western Burial Ground in Lynn, Essex co., MA[65].
OCCUPATION Samuel was a Husbandman[66].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP Samuel is the patriarch of the Quaker branch of the family. He and Anna were among the first inhabitants of Nahant, Essex co., MA, living there by the time of the birth of their son Samuel on 11 November 1692. This branch of the Breed Family, the Hoods & the Alley family -- all Quakers -- lived on the peninsula of Nahant. Samuel's family were staunch Puritans, so he probably came to Quakerism via his wife Anna Hood.
WILL Samuel's will is dated 28 July 1768 and was proved on 1 October 1770[67].
MARRIAGE On 5 February 1691/2 when Samuel was 21, he married Anna HOOD, daughter of Richard HOOD Sr. & Mary NEWHALL, in Lynn, Essex co., MA [2,38,68,36,69,70,32,71,72,73] as "Bread, Samuell and Anna Hood".

CHILDREN 36. i. Samuell BREED Samuell was born on 11 November 1692 in Nahant, Essex co., MA[75] as "Bread, Samuell" and died in Nahant, Essex co., MA on 14 May 1768; he was 75[93]. He married Deliverance BASSETT, daughter of William BASSETT, JR. & Sarah HOOD.
37. ii. Amos BREED Amos was born on 20 July 1694 in Nahant, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Amos"[75].
38. iii. Jabez BREED Jabez was born on 26 January 1695/6 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Jabez"[75].
39. iv. Abigaile BREED Abigaile was born on 7 September 1698 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Abigaile"[75].
40. v. Nathan BREED Please see his own page.
41. vi. Keziah BREED Keziah was born on 16 October 1704 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Keziah"[75]. On 8 December 1724 when Keziah was 20, she married Samuel NEWHALL, son of Ensign Joseph NEWHALL & Susanna FARRAR[67]. Samuel was born on 9 Mar 1700/1[92] and died in October 1770; he was 70[67]. He was a Husbandman [96] and is Waters #99. Samuel was adopted by his UNCLE Thomas Farrar as a youth. Thus, in Thomas' will of 5 June 1730, Samuel and Richard Hood received the bulk of Thomas' estate [67]. Samuel's will was written on 28 July 1768 and proved on 1 October 1770[67]. He was a Quaker...interesting, since Thomas Farrar, Senior (father of his adopted father) had been accused in the witch furor.

They had the following children (surnamed NEWHALL):
i. Anna
ii. Elizabeth
iii. Sarah
iv. Lydia
v. Pharaoh
vi. Abijah
vii. Abigail
viii. Daniel
ix. Rebecca
x. Ruth

42. vii. Anna BREED Anna was born on 28 July 1706 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Anna"[75].
43. viii. Ebeneezer BREED Ebeneezre was born on 1 May 1710 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Ebenezer"[75].
44. ix. Ruth BREED Ruth was born on 10 March 1711/2 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Ruth"[75].
45. x. Benjamin BREED Benjamin was born on 4 July 1715 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Bread, Benjamin"[75].
46. xi. Nehemiah BREED Nehemian married Abigail BREED, daughter of Nathan BREED & Mary BASSETT. Mary was born on 13 March 1735 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[97]. Nathan Breed is Nehemiah's brother, so Nehemiah married his niece.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 1012
SOURCES 1. The Essex Genealogist, Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall "The Breed Family-Descendants of Allen Breed (or Bread) of Lynn,", [Lindberg-Breed], 11,#4[November 1991]:198.

2. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

3. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:432.

4. Howard, Loea Parker, The Beginning of Reading and Lynnfield Massachusetts, (1937), [Howard], 5.

5. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 16219-[1893], (Lynn: George C. Herbert, [1890]), [Lynn Hist.], 193-196.

6. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 1:79.

7. Ibid. I:79.

8. Essex co., MA Deeds, [EssexDeeds or ELR], II:107.

9. [Lindberg-Breed], 11,#4[November 1991]:198-9.

10. Ibid. 11, #4[November 1991]:199.

11. [EssexDeeds or ELR], II:108.

12. [Lindberg-Breed], 11,#4[November 1991]:200.

13. Essex co., MA Deeds, [EssexDeeds or ELR], II:108.

14. Ibid. 9:10.

15. Sumner, Edith (Bartlett), Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families, (Los Angeles, 1948), [Blake-Glidden], 259.

16. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 59:221.

17. The American Genealogist, [TAG], 14:2.

18. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [DommerichChart], 54.

19. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 40:149.

20. Howell, George Rogers, The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, 2nd ed., (Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons Co., 1887), [Southampton], 423.

21. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 11:145.

22. Williams, C.B., Ancestry of Lawrence Williams, (Chicago: privately printed, 1915), [Williams (#16)], 57,58.

23. [Lynn Hist.], 115.

24. Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 vols., (Hillburn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1939), [Snow-Estes], 1:249.

25. Parke, Nathan Grier, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, (Woodstock, Vt., 1960), [Ackley-Bosworth], 52.

26. Stevens, E.D., and DuBois, L.D., The Ancestors of Courtlandt Palmer Dixon Palmer Dixon and His Wife Hannah Elizabeth Williams of Stonington, Conn., Containing also a List of Their Descendants, (n.p.: Dixon Assoc., 1927), [Dixon-Williams], 28.

27. Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and His Wife Alice Woodward Babcock, ([New York?], 1927), [Winthrop-Babcock], 67.

28. [TAG], 52:1-4.

29. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:241.

30. The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Mass., (Lynn, Mass., 1897+), [Lynn Hist. Soc.], 1906:86, 1914:35.

31. Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., 2 vols., (New York: John F. Trow & Son, 1874), [Dwight], 1108.

32. [Williams (#16)], 58.

33. [EssexAnt], 9:155; 11:145; 12:140.

34. Preston, Mary Isabella, Bassett-Preston Ancestors; a History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Wasson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston), (New Haven: The Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1930), [Bassett-Preston], 18.

35. [DommerichChart], 45.

36. [DommerichChart], 20.

37. [NEHGR], 53:201.

38. Lawrence, Ethel Viola, Tripp Family with Collaterals, ([East Northfield?, Mass.], 1948), [Tripp (1948)], 54.

39. Farlow, Charles Frederic, Ballard Genealogy: William Ballard (1603-1639) of Lynn, Massachusetts and William Ballard (1617-1689) of Andover, Massachusetts and Their Descendants, (Boston: C. H. Pope, 1911), [Ballard], 16.

40. [LynnVR], II:55 [Ct. R.].

41. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book Of Emigrants, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987), [Coldham], 150.

42. [Lindberg-Breed], 11,#4[November 1991]:201.

43. Ibid. 11, #4[November 1991]:201-2.

44. [EIHC], 50:151.

45. [Snow-Estes], 1:422.

46. The Mayflower Descendant, vols. 1-34, Bowman, George Ernest, ed., (Boston: Mayflower Society, 1899-1937), [MD], 3:185.

47. [LynnVR], II:432 [Ct. R.].

48. Page, Lucius R., List of Freemen of MA, 1630-1691., [Page-Freemen], III:10-12.

49. [Newhall(1882)], 32.

50. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR]

51. [Newhall(1882)], 20,32.

52. [LynnVR], I:60 [Ct. R.].

53. Ibid. II:436 [G.R. 1].

54. [EQC], 6:400; 7:158.

55. [Lindberg-Breed], 11,#5:31-2.

56. Ibid. 11, #5:31.

57. [LynnVR], II:134 and II:55.

58. [EssexAnt], 9:47, 143; 11:146.

59. [EIHC], 18:233, 235-6.

60. [LynnVR], I:145 [Ct. R.].

61. Ibid. II:438.

62. Ibid. I:61 [Ct. R.].

63. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 1:120.

64. [LynnVR], II:439.

65. Ibid. II:438 [P.R. 6].

66. Ibid. II:62.

67. [Newhall(1882)], 48.

68. [Snow-Estes], 2:66.

69. [EIHC], 45:52.

70. [EssexAnt], 11:148.

71. Bosson, Jennie (Hood), John Hood of Lynn, Mass., (Salem: Essex Institute, 1909), [Hood], 4.

72. Topsfield Historical Society, The Historical Collections of, vols. 1+, (Topsfield, Mass.: The Society, 1895), [Topsfield Hist. Soc.], 14:96.

73. [LynnVR], II:55.

74. Ibid. I:196.

75. Ibid. I:61.

76. [Newhall(1882)], 44.

77. Ibid. 43.

78. Ibid. 25, 43.

79. Ibid. 43-44.

80. Ibid. 46.

81. [LynnVR], II:436 [P.R. 5].

82. [EIHC], First Book of Intentions of Marriage in the City of Lynn, 16:71ff.

83. [Newhall(1882)], 25,46.

84. Ibid. 45.

85. Ibid. 25, 45.

86. Ibid. 55.

87. Ibid. 55, 52.

88. Ibid. 56.

89. [Lindberg-Breed], ???:165.

90. [LynnVR], II:56.

91. [Newhall(1882)], 44-5.

92. Ibid. 25.

93. [LynnVR], II:438 [P.R. 5].

94. Ibid. II:437 [P.R. 5].

95. Ibid. II:62 [C.R. 1].

96. Ibid. II:263.

97. Ibid. I:62.

98. [Newhall(1882)], 46,48.

99. Ibid.

100. [LynnVR], I:68.

101. [Newhall(1882)], 45,55.

102. [LynnVR], II:264.

103. Ibid. I:67.

104. Ibid. II:433 [G.R. 1].

105. [EIHC], Waters Newhall Listings, #323 (under her motherıs listing), v. 18, pp. 259-260.

106. [Newhall(1882)], 56,102.

107. Ibid. 102.

108. [EIHC], Waters Newhall Listings, #315, v. 19, p. 52.

109. [LynnVR].

110. [Newhall(1882)], 55, 56.

111. [EIHC], Waters Newhall Listings #728, v. 48 p. 320.

112. [LynnVR], I:65.

113. Ibid. II:434 [C.R. 5 and P.R. 53].

114. [Newhall(1882)], 59.

115. [LynnVR], I:66.

116. Ibid. II:435.

117. Lynn Historic Society Genealogies, [LHSG], VI, #20.

118. [LynnVR], I:269 [C.R. 1].

119. Ibid. I:66 [as the correct ³Hannah Breed² entry-dated 30 May 1731].

120. Ibid. II:540 [C.R. 1].

121. Ibid. II:257 [P.R. 125] (three entries on this same page).

122. Ibid. II:58 [The correct entry under ³Breed, Hannah².

123. Ibid. I:269.

124. Ibid. II:540.

125. Ibid. II:257.

126. Ibid. II:434 [C.R. 1 and P.R. 53].

127. Ibid. II:435 [P.R. 2].

128. Ibid. I:74.

129. Ibid. II:436.

130. Ibid. I:64.

131. Ibid. I:70.

132. Ibid. II:434.

133. Ibid. II:264 [C.R.1].

134. [Newhall(1882)], 143.

135. [LynnVR], I:278.

136. Ibid. II:263 [C.R.1].




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