Husband Judge Nathaniel Breading 1 2
Born: Mar 1751 - Little Britain Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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Died: 22 Apr 1822 - Fayette Co, PA 1
Buried: - Laughlin Cemetery, near Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
Father: James Breading ( - ) 1 2
Mother: Ann Ewing ( - ) 3
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• Autograph: Nath'l Breading.
Wife Mary Ewing 1
Born: Abt 1767
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Died: 31 Aug 1845 1
Buried: - Laughlin Cemetery, near Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA
Children
1 M George Breading 1
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2 F Mary Ann Breading 4 5
Born: - Fayette Co, PA
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Died: Sep 1855 5
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Spouse: George Hogg (1784-1849) 4 5 6
Marr: 7 Mar 1811 6 7
3 M James E. Breading 1 8 9
Born: 19 Oct 1789 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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Died: 19 Nov 1863 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 3
Buried: - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth Ewing (1799-1892) 3 8 10 11
Marr: 1821 3
4 F Sarah Breading 1
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Spouse: Dr. James Stevens (Aft 1779-Abt 1863) 1 12
5 F Harriet Breading 1
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Spouse: Dr. Joseph Gazzam ( - ) 1
6 F Caroline Margaret Breading 1
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Spouse: Dr. Joseph Trevor ( -Aft 1882) 1
7 F Elizabeth Breading 1
AKA: Elizabeth Brading 13
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Spouse: Rev. William B. McIlvaine ( - ) 1 14 15
8 M William E. Breading 1
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Died: when twenty-five years old
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9 U [Infant] Breading 1
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10 U [Infant] Breading 1
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General Notes: Husband - Judge Nathaniel Breading
Having been given a fine classical education, he took charge of an academy at Newark, Delaware, and afterwards taught school in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
We next hear of him serving in the army of the Revolution under his future father-in-law, Gen. Ewing, commissary of the Pennsylvania line, while the army was encamped at Valley Forge during the hard and gloomy winter of 1777. After marriage, he removed his family to Tower Hill farm, Luzerne township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1784. During 1785 he was appointed one of the five justices of the peace, who were the sole judges in the Court of Common Pleas for some years, until Judge Addison was appointed president judge, on which event Mr. Breading was appointed associate, and continued such until his death.
After the close of the war he was chosen as one of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, with whom was lodged all the ex-ecutive power of the State. This office he held about five years, until the adoption of the new constitution of 1790 providing for the election of a Governor.
At an early day Judge Breading did much to develop the infant trade between the western counties of the State and New Orleans by sending annually to that market a flat-boat laden with flour and whiskey, at that time almost the only articles of production and export, though as he was early engaged with John and Andrew Oliphant in the furnace business, they occasionally included salt- and sugar-kettles, hollow-ware, etc.
During the troublous times of the Whiskey Insurrection Judge Breading, as a law-abiding citizen, used all his influence in maintaining the laws taxing whiskey, notwithstanding these laws were destructive to his interest and so obnoxious as to create a rebellion which could be suppressed only by the strong arm of military force. So strong indeed was public opinion against the excise laws that large amounts of Judge Breading's property were burned by the insurgents. He, in connection with Edward Cook and John Oliphant, was a delegate from Fayette County to a convention of gentlemen which met at Pittsburgh, Sept. 7, 1791, to take measures in regard to suppressing the Whiskey Insurrection.
Judge Breading was commissioned by the State, March 5, 1785, to survey all the lands then recently purchased from the Indians north and west of the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers to Lake Erie, as also to assist in running the lines between Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ohio.
In the days of his early manhood he purchased the Tower Hill farm, in 1783, buying at that time the tomahawk right of one McKibben, who had taken it up and was then living upon it, and "paid out the land" to the State in 1784, and immediately moved upon it, and in 1790 built thereon a stone house, which was later in the possession of one of his grandsons, George E. Hogg. Judge Breading lived continuously in this house after its erection, and died therein.
Judge Breading was very enterprising, and aside from various other important operations he, in company with others, built at Brownsville, in 1814, a steamboat named the "Enterprise," which was the first steamer built at Brownsville, and which, after making a number of trips to Pittsburgh, was sent down the river to New Orleans and never returned. In 1816 the same persons built a second steamer.