ALLEN BREED
Allen1 Breed and Elizabeth Wheeler who arrived in America 12 June 1630 with one daughter and two sons, having two other sons born to them after they settled in Lynn, Mass. Allen 1 was born in Westoning, Bedford Co., England in 1600. He was christened 18 July 1602. Married Elizabeth Wheeler 14 Nov. 1622 at Pulloxhill, Bedford Co., England. In Lynn, Mass., he lived near where Summer Street crosses the turnpike. That part of the city is still known as "Breed's End". Elizabeth died sometime in 1656 and Allen married Elizabeth Knight the 28 March 1656. They had no children. Elizabeth Wheeler's parents were Rebecca and Thomas (the elder)of Cranfield, Bedford Co., England. Allen1 died 17 March 1692 in Lynn, Essex Co. Massachusetts.
CHILDREN OF ALLEN1 AND ELIZABETH :
Elizabeth Born 26 July 1626 Westoning, England
Married 26 June 1650 in Lynn,Mass. to William Merrian.
Died 1676
Allen 2 Born 1628 Pulloxhill, Bedford Co., England ( See Allen II Breed)
Died 11 Feb. 1707 Lynn, Mass.
Timothy Born 1630 in Westoning Parish, Bedfordshire, England
Married (1) Sarah Bran. He married (2) Sarah Newhall
03 March 1678/79 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
Died January 02, 1716/17 in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Joseph Born 1632 Lynn, Mass.
Married 4 July 1684 to Mary ------
John Born 26 Dec. 1634 Lynn, Mass.
Married Sarah Hawthorn 28 October 1663.
Died 28 June 1678
Allen1 and some fifty other who landed with, Gov. Winthrop, settled in Lynn in June
of 1630. After these others came rapidly. By 1641 some 21,000 persons had arrived
in New England.They came on some 198 ships at a cost of nearly one million dollars.
Boston was not a large town at this time, for John Fuller who came there in 1630
found only seven huts erected. Lynn was known as Saugust, incorporated in 1630
by being represented in the General Court.
In the early part of 1631 provisions were scarce and many persons depended on clams,
ground nuts and acorns. Wheat sold for $3.11 per bushel. A good cow bought over
$100 and a yoke of oxen over $175. In 1635 Rev. Samuel Whiting come to Saugust.
As a compliment to him the name was later change to Lynn, same as his hometown
in England.
Allen Breed was admitted a freeman and in 1638 had two hundred acres
of land allotted to him. Once a man was made a freeman, and was no longer
considered a common, he could, and usually would, become a member of the
church, and he could own land.
A deed from the Essex County Registry, Deed Book 2 p. 121, 30 May 1666.
This is to declare unto them whom it may concern that I, Allen Bread, of Lyn Seny’r
doe give unto my sone, Allen Bread of the same town as followeth to him and his
heirs and assigns forever. Imprs, one peece of land I bought of Nicholas Browne,
butting on the high waye North, adjoyning to ye land of Mr. King east and Francis
Burrell west, with the marsh adjoyning Thereto.
It. thet land I bought of James Hubbard lying above and below the high waye to
the meeting house and adjoying to the high waye west and the land of one Craft’s
wife, lately caled by the name of widdow Juerye, on the east and Mr. King on ye south.
It. Halfe the house lott, halfe the houseing, halfe the orchard, and all the march
adjoying to the same, to the sea and to the great gate, 6 acres be it more of less;
and the other halfe of the housing and land to the said Allen my eldest son, after
my decease.
It. I give to my foresaid sone one horse, one mare colt, one cow one year old
heifer and two weaning calves, also two ewes and two weather lambs.
It. I give to the said Allin my son all the linen his mother left him at her death.
Witnesses: William Sergeant and Phillip Kirtlanf. Acknowledged before me
5:2mo:65/66, signed William Hathorne
LYNN MASSACHUSETTS
Lynn is pleasantly situated on the northern shore of Massachusetts Bay between the Cities of
Salem and Boston. It has the river Saugus on the west and harbor on the south, the ocean on the
Southeast and the Lake of Lynn on the north. Salem is five miles northeast and Boston is nine
miles southwest. From the center of the southern side of Lynn a beach of sand extends two
miles into the ocean, at the end of which are two peninsular islands, called the Nahaunts.
The name Nahaunt is supposed to have been derived from the Indian word “Nahanuteen”
meaning twins. Great Nahant is two miles in length and half a mile wide. It is surrounded
by steep, craggy cliffs, rising from twenty to sixty feet above the tide, with a considerable
depth of water below. Above the cliffs the promontory swell into mounds from sixty to
ninety feet high.
It was these Nahants which Thornwald saw as he sailed eastward from his Vineland, as he
alled Rhode Island. Lief, a brother of Thornwald, had discovered Rhode Island in the year
1000, being led to it by reports from the voyager Biarne, who had seen new lands in that
direction when driven off his course by a storm. Lief and Thornwald were sons of Eric the
Red, an Iceland Prince, who immigrated to Greenland in the year 986. In 1603, Martin Pring,
an explorer, sailed into Cape Cod Bay in search of medicinal plants. In 1614 Captain John Smith
sailed into Mass. Bay and expressed his admiration of its beauty. In 1629 the inhabitants of
Lynn consisted of the families of five men: Edmund and Francis Ingalls, John and William
Wood and William Dixey.
At the northwest extremity of Nahant is “John’s Peril”. A vast fissure in the cliff, forty feet
perpendicular, which received it name from the following anecdote: “John Breed, one of the
arly inhabitants of Nahant, one day attempted to drive his team of oxen between a rock on
the hill and this cliff. The passage became narrower, he found his team in great peril and
hastily unhitched them. The cart fell down the cliff and was dashed to pieces.”
References:
Breed Family Association Book 11 published Dec. 1932
A Record of the Descendants of Allen Breed, Who came to America from
England in 1630 – by J. Howard Breed, (Hathaway&Brothers 1892).
History of Southern Families---by Boddie--- Volume 10 pages 132-137 Volume 13 page 158.
A History of the First Congregational Church---by Richard A. Wheeler published 1875.
CHILDREN OF ALLEN1 AND ELIZABETH :
Elizabeth Born 26 July 1626 Westoning, England
Married 26 June 1650 in Lynn,Mass. to William Merrian.
Died 1676
Allen 2 Born 1628 Pulloxhill, Bedford Co., England ( See Allen II Breed)
Died 11 Feb. 1707 Lynn, Mass.
Timothy Born 1630 in Westoning Parish, Bedfordshire, England
Married (1) Sarah Bran. He married (2) Sarah Newhall
03 March 1678/79 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
Died January 02, 1716/17 in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Joseph Born 1632 Lynn, Mass.
Married 4 July 1684 to Mary ------
John Born 26 Dec. 1634 Lynn, Mass.
Married Sarah Hawthorn 28 October 1663.
Died 28 June 1678
Allen1 and some fifty other who landed with, Gov. Winthrop, settled in Lynn in June
of 1630. After these others came rapidly. By 1641 some 21,000 persons had arrived
in New England.They came on some 198 ships at a cost of nearly one million dollars.
Boston was not a large town at this time, for John Fuller who came there in 1630
found only seven huts erected. Lynn was known as Saugust, incorporated in 1630
by being represented in the General Court.
In the early part of 1631 provisions were scarce and many persons depended on clams,
ground nuts and acorns. Wheat sold for $3.11 per bushel. A good cow bought over
$100 and a yoke of oxen over $175. In 1635 Rev. Samuel Whiting come to Saugust.
As a compliment to him the name was later change to Lynn, same as his hometown
in England.
Allen Breed was admitted a freeman and in 1638 had two hundred acres
of land allotted to him. Once a man was made a freeman, and was no longer
considered a common, he could, and usually would, become a member of the
church, and he could own land.
A deed from the Essex County Registry, Deed Book 2 p. 121, 30 May 1666.
This is to declare unto them whom it may concern that I, Allen Bread, of Lyn Seny’r
doe give unto my sone, Allen Bread of the same town as followeth to him and his
heirs and assigns forever. Imprs, one peece of land I bought of Nicholas Browne,
butting on the high waye North, adjoyning to ye land of Mr. King east and Francis
Burrell west, with the marsh adjoyning Thereto.
It. thet land I bought of James Hubbard lying above and below the high waye to
the meeting house and adjoying to the high waye west and the land of one Craft’s
wife, lately caled by the name of widdow Juerye, on the east and Mr. King on ye south.
It. Halfe the house lott, halfe the houseing, halfe the orchard, and all the march
adjoying to the same, to the sea and to the great gate, 6 acres be it more of less;
and the other halfe of the housing and land to the said Allen my eldest son, after
my decease.
It. I give to my foresaid sone one horse, one mare colt, one cow one year old
heifer and two weaning calves, also two ewes and two weather lambs.
It. I give to the said Allin my son all the linen his mother left him at her death.
Witnesses: William Sergeant and Phillip Kirtlanf. Acknowledged before me
5:2mo:65/66, signed William Hathorne
LYNN MASSACHUSETTS
Lynn is pleasantly situated on the northern shore of Massachusetts Bay between the Cities of
Salem and Boston. It has the river Saugus on the west and harbor on the south, the ocean on the
Southeast and the Lake of Lynn on the north. Salem is five miles northeast and Boston is nine
miles southwest. From the center of the southern side of Lynn a beach of sand extends two
miles into the ocean, at the end of which are two peninsular islands, called the Nahaunts.
The name Nahaunt is supposed to have been derived from the Indian word “Nahanuteen”
meaning twins. Great Nahant is two miles in length and half a mile wide. It is surrounded
by steep, craggy cliffs, rising from twenty to sixty feet above the tide, with a considerable
depth of water below. Above the cliffs the promontory swell into mounds from sixty to
ninety feet high.
It was these Nahants which Thornwald saw as he sailed eastward from his Vineland, as he
alled Rhode Island. Lief, a brother of Thornwald, had discovered Rhode Island in the year
1000, being led to it by reports from the voyager Biarne, who had seen new lands in that
direction when driven off his course by a storm. Lief and Thornwald were sons of Eric the
Red, an Iceland Prince, who immigrated to Greenland in the year 986. In 1603, Martin Pring,
an explorer, sailed into Cape Cod Bay in search of medicinal plants. In 1614 Captain John Smith
sailed into Mass. Bay and expressed his admiration of its beauty. In 1629 the inhabitants of
Lynn consisted of the families of five men: Edmund and Francis Ingalls, John and William
Wood and William Dixey.
At the northwest extremity of Nahant is “John’s Peril”. A vast fissure in the cliff, forty feet
perpendicular, which received it name from the following anecdote: “John Breed, one of the
arly inhabitants of Nahant, one day attempted to drive his team of oxen between a rock on
the hill and this cliff. The passage became narrower, he found his team in great peril and
hastily unhitched them. The cart fell down the cliff and was dashed to pieces.”
References:
Breed Family Association Book 11 published Dec. 1932
A Record of the Descendants of Allen Breed, Who came to America from
England in 1630 – by J. Howard Breed, (Hathaway&Brothers 1892).
History of Southern Families---by Boddie--- Volume 10 pages 132-137 Volume 13 page 158.
A History of the First Congregational Church---by Richard A. Wheeler published 1875.
