BREAKENRIDGE/BRECKENRIDGE
.William BREAKENRIDGE ( -1709)
+ (?)
...Jacobus(James) BREAKENRIDGE (1696-1767)
..+Sarah (?) (1695-1773)
......James BREAKENRIDGE (1721-1783)
.....+Mary MOORE (1724-1800)
.........David BREAKENRIDGE (1764-1833)
........+Hester WRIGHT (1767-1808)
............David A. BRECKENRIDGE (1782-1833)
...........+Rebecca LAWRENCE (1781-1849)
..............Margaret BRECKENRIDGE (1804-1875)
.............+John LENT (1802-1884)
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My thanks to Nancy Williams for the excerpts from:
The Breakenridge Family
Compiled by Nancy Williams - March 2000
Jacobus (James) Breakenridge
The first of the Breakenridge family to come to America was Jacobus Breakenridge, who was born July 22, 1696 in Craigie, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the son of William Breakenridge who died in 1709. Jacobus (also known as James) married in 1720, and departed for America from Ireland on July 16, 1727. With him were his wife, Sarah, who was born in 1695, and three children. Jacobus settled in Kingstown, now known as Palmer, Massachusetts. Here he lived and brought up his family in comfort and respectability. Besides the three sons born in Ireland, Jacobus and Sarah had five more children after arriving in Massachusetts. Jacobus Breakenridge died on April 5, 1767. Sarah Breakenridge died at the age of 78 on November 17, 1773. They are buried in the Old Historic Cemetery, Palmer, Massachusetts.
James Breakenridge
James Breakenridge, eldest son of Jacobus and Sarah, was born on May 28, 1721 in Antrim, Ireland. He came to America at the age of six. In 1745, James married Mary Moore, who was born in 1724, and settled first in Ware, Massachusetts, and later, in 1761, in what is now Bennington, Vermont. There was a great dispute over the original ownership of the land - New York vs. New Hampshire. In the end, this led to the formation of the Republic of Vermont, and James Breakenridge’s farm became known as the birthplace of Vermont.
During the American Revolution, James spent six months in the Litchfield (Connecticut) Gaol in 1777 because of his loyalty to the King. He was not allowed to return to his home in Vermont until after the War had ended. James Breakenridge died in Bennington, Vermont on April 16, 1783. Mary Breakenridge died there on September 16, 1800. Their gravestones can be seen today in the cemetery next to the First Church in Old Bennington.
David Breakenridge - 7th child of James BREAKENRIDGE and Mary MOORE
David Breakenridge was born in 1764 in Bennington, Vermont. He was
baptised at the Old First Church in Bennington on March 16, 1764. He
grew up on his father’s farm near Bennington. During the Revolutionary
War, he was permitted to remain at his father’s house under the care of
the Guard. He later joined the King’s Rangers, better known as Rogers’
Rangers, named after their commander Major James Rogers.
At the end of the War, David came to Canada as a United Empire
Loyalist, and settled on the west half of lot 32, on the first
concession in the seigneurie of number seven. (Near Maitland, Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario. As part of his U. E. Officer's grants he received Crown Grants of: 200 acres on Con 6 Lot 14 and 100 acres on Con 3 Lot 4 in Oxford twp., and 114 acres on Con 1 Lot 32 Augusta twp. all patented May 17, 1802. -rcb)
There he became chairman of the District Quarter Sessions, a Colonel in the Militia and a Methodist lay preacher. He performed more baptisms in Augusta than all other local preachers put together. "Breakenridge was a United Empire Loyalist, and an ardent Tory. Possessing a fair education and a large public experience, he occupied a foremost position. As a preacher, he was caustic and severe; he would advise those who were so strenuous about the quantity of water in baptism, to make thorough work of it, and have themselves ‘put to soak over night,’ and those that carried their divinity in their pocket, "to put a lock and key on it, lest they should lose it"
Following the War of 1812 he and Elder Henry Ryan, a Methodist of Irish origin succeeded in forming a new body, The Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Church.
David Breakenridge was first married to Hester Wright, who was born on December 26, 1767 in Pownal, Vermont. She was the daughter of Samuel Wright, also a United Empire Loyalist, and his first wife who was probably Sara Freelove Chilson.
The Family of Hester Wright
Hester Wright, wife of David Breakenridge, was the daughter of Samuel Wright, U.E. I believe I have traced his ancestors back to Deacon Samuel Wright who was born in 1606 in Wrightsbridge, Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, England. He married Margaret Stratton and they emigrated to Massachusetts in the mid-1660's. Samuel died at Northampton, Massachusetts on October 17, 1665 and Margaret died there on July 24, 1681. Samuel and Margaret Wright had nine children.
- Compiled by Nancy Williams - March 20000
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David A. Breckenridge
Based on information from: Roger C. Breckenridge
David, son of David and Hester (Wright) Breakenridge, was born in 1782, probably at St. John's, Quebec where David Breakenridge, Sr. was stationed during the American Revolutionary War. He died October 11, 1833, Wellington, Prince Edward County, Ontario.
David married (1801) Rebecca Lawrence and they lived on land in Wolford Township, Grenville County, Ontario. David Breakenridge, Jr. became a Methodist deacon in 1823, he later withdrew from the church and became a farmer.
Rebecca was the daughter of John Lawrence of Augusta and Margaret (Switzer) Embury, the widow of Philip Embury. John Lawrence received a Crown Grant in Augusta twp., Grenville County, Ontario of 200 acres on Con 3 Lot 17, 200 acres on Con. 8, Lot 2 both patented September 1, 1797. According to Thad Leavitt's History of Leeds and Grenville, page 160, John Lawrence settled on Lot 18 in the 3rd concession about the year 1800. His children were John, Rebecca and Betsey.
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Margaret BRECKENRIDGE
FROM:
http://www.oocities.org/pambretherton/Breckenridge.html
James moved to Bennington, Vermont sometime before the
Revolutionary War. He and his brother, William, were members of the Provincial Congress in 1775.
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FROM:
http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/data/p991.htm
James Breakenridge, who was born in Ireland, served in the early wars. He was such a prominent patriot during the Revolution that Tryon offered a bounty for his capture. He was a member of the Dorset convention and it was upon his farm that the settlers of Bennington made a successful stand against the attempt of the New York claimants to dispossess them by force from the New Hampshire grants.
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FROM:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mahampde/towns/palmer/palmerctr/index.html
DEAD BRAKENRIDGES, Palmer MA
Brackenridge, Louisa, Sept. 22, 1823, 20 yrs
Brakenridge, Francis, Jan. 30, 1790, 63 yrs
Brakenridge, Margrett, wife of Francis, Sept. 9, 1787, 56 yrs
Brakenridge, George, March 11, 1797, Pvt. in Chapins Co.
Brakenridge, James, April 5, 1767, 72 yrs. (Jacobus)
Brakenridge, Sarah, wife of James, Nov. 17, 1773, 79 yrs
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