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Amasa Breck

Male 1788 - 1846  (58 years)


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  • Name Amasa Breck 
    Born 20 Jun 1788  Medfield, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 4 Dec 1846  Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I43935  A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2011 

    Father Joseph Breck,   b. Abt 1741,   d. 1820  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mary Fairbanks,   b. Abt 1749, Medway, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1788  (Age 39 years) 
    Family ID F18450  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nancy Hoar,   b. 8 Jan 1797, Bristol, Bristol Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1867, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 22 Jun 1815  Bristol, Bristol Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Abby Breck,   b. Abt 1818, Bristol, Bristol Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Aug 1895, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     2. Thomas Breck,   b. Abt 1820, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1903, East Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     3. William Breck,   b. Abt 1822, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jun 1897, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     4. Mary Elizabeth Breck,   b. Abt 1830, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Mar 1881, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     5. Laura Melissa Breck,   b. 28 Feb 1838, Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Dec 1910, Uxbridge, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2010 
    Family ID F16371  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofbreck00brec/genealogyofbreck00brec_djvu.txt
      Amasa Breck, [3102], b. 20th June, 1788, at Medfield, Mass.; m. 20th June, 1815, Nancy Hoar, (b. 8th Jan., 1797, at Bristol, R. I.,) dau. of Benjamin and Priscilla ( Waldron) Hoar, of Bristol, R. I.; he d. at Providence, R. I., 4th Dec, 1846; she d. at same place 12th Nov., 1867.

      (same link as above)
      Amasa Breck was born at Medfield, Mass., in 1788. Early in life he removed to Bristol, R. I., where he engaged in the manufacture of saddles, harness and trunks. Here, in 1815, he married Miss Nancy Hoar. Bristol not proving a satisfactory location he removed in 1829 to Newport, and the next year to Providence, where he estab- lished the same business. The increasing demand for his trunks induced him to abandon his other manufactures and to estab- lish a manufactory of trunks. To this he applied his characteristic indomitable energy and thrift, coupled with a strict integrity, and soon took the lead in that branch of busi- ness. His manufactory was highly prosperous during his lifetime, and was left to his sons Thomas and William, who still carry it on at the same location. Mr. Breck was a genial and social companion, though of very decided opinions, and a devout member of the Episcopal Church. He was stricken down by typhoid fever at the age of 58. The above picture is copied from a portrait now in the possession of his son Thomas.

      http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/Providence/article273.html
      Trunks and Valises. T. & W. Breck, No. 33 North Main Street, manufacturers of, and wholesale and retail dealers in, trunks, valises, carpet-bags, &c. Business established in 1829, by Amasa Breck. In 1846, his two sons, T. and W. Breck, were admitted as partners, under the firm-style of A. Breck & Sons. The senior member of the firm died in 1846, when the business passed into the hands of the present firm.