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From Maryland Historical Magazine, "French and Indian War", From the Society's Collection. 1914, Vol. 9, Issue 3, p.265
Muster Roll of Capt. John White included John Brathet.
The only dates in the original manuscript are August of 1757 and the year 1758. The manuscript seems to have been made up for the Committee on Accounts for pay of the soldiers.

Name was probably originally Branthwaite, Braithwaite. In Kentucky it came to be Breathitt. The Maryland branch used Breathed.

Tax Lists in Bedford Co PA
1773, Ayr Township: John Breathed
1785, Bethel Township: John Brethed, 1400 £ Valuation
1785, Providence Township: John Brethed
1789, Providence Township: John Breathed

A 1798 Tax List for Belfast Twp, Bedford Co shows James Breathed as a non-resident.

Found in 1800 PA Census, Bedford Co, Bethel & Belfast Twps:
Jane Brethed. 2m 10-16, 2m 16-26, 3m 26-45. 2f under 10, 1f 16-26, 1f over 45.

From the WESTERN MARYLAND NEWSPAPER ABSTARACTS, Vol 2 & 3, by F. Edward Wright, it is obvious that both a James and an Edward Breathed lived in Washington County, MD. They had letters left unclaimed at the post office, as well as annual advertisements for their stallions standing at stud from 1796-1806. An Isaac Breathed advertised his horse Herod to stand at his farm on Conoloway Creek in April of 1801. On 12 Jun 1807, there is a notice re Francis Breathed, as administrator of Edward Breathed; James was still advertising a stud in April of that year. John Breathed of Bedford Co PA placed an ad on 22 Feb 1792, stating that he would not pay on bonds executed to one William Kelly. In 1803 there was an unclaimed letter for George Breathet at the Hagerstown Post Office. The abstracts end in 1810. Lists of sons of John Breathitt and Jane Kelley include all these names listed in the abstracts: Edward, James, Francis, John, and George.

Records from Bedford Co PA, just across the state line from Washington Co MD reveals more information about the sons. The 1808 TRIENNIAL TAX ASSESSMENT- BEDFORD CO PA, compiled by Mrs. Claire (Doris) Finney for the Fulton Co PA Historical Society, 1990 - has the following single freemen listed in Bethel Township: George, Ranny, Isaac, and John Breathed. George Breathed also owned a horse. Ranny had 107 acres, a grist mill and saw mill. Isaac had three parcels of land, a house and lot. John had four parcels of land totalling 885 acres.
Note: The John in this list is obviously the younger John.

BEDFORD CO PA ARCHIVES, by James B. Whisker, 1985
Vol 1, p.92 William Brethed, 300 acres below the North fork of Sidling Hill Creek including Hickory Bottoms, 2 Apr 1767. [This is a William Breathitt not in my files.]
Vol 3, p.81 - Tax lists for Bedford Co, 1785, Bethel Township includes John Brethed taxed and Edward Brethed, a single freeman in Bethel Township.
p.99 - another listing for John Breathed in Providence Twp
Vol 4 - Original Warrants, Patents & Drafts filed at Fulton Co Courthouse. The following names are all included: George, Isaac, James, John, and Ranney Breathed.
Vol 5 - Tax lists for Bethel Twp, Bedford Co include John, George, Isaac and Ranney Breathed, in 1817 and 1819. In 1817 George, John & Ranney all still listed as single men. Isaac had likely married by this time. In 1819, only George and Ranney were still listed as single freemen, so perhaps John had also married.

History of Western Maryland; Vol. 2, J. Thomas Scharf, Philadelphia, 1882. Reprinted 1995. p.1258-59
Representative Families.
The Breatheds are one of the leading families of Washington County. John Breathed immigrated from Europe to Maryland about the middle of the 18th century and settled in Washingon County, where he married Jane Kelley, a member of a Scotch-Irish family, whose father owned large tracts of land which he bequeathed in the main to his grandchildren. Soon after his marriage John Breathed removed to Pennsylvania and became the father of twelve children...
Several of his sons never married...The brothers largely increased their inheritance by surveying unoccupied lands, a portion of which is still in the possession of the family. As the brothers died they left the greater portion of their land to the survivors among the six. The last of them to die was John, at whose death the land and money were divided up among members of the family of the present geneation. Four of the children of John Breathed - Edward, Ranney, James, and Francis - are buried on the farm near Hagerstown, George and Jane are on a farm in Pennsylvania and John at St. Mark's Church near Breathedsville.
William Breathed married Miss Whitaker [sic - Whitsitt] of Virginia and removed to Kentucky in the year 180? The fruits of this marriage were eight children, who George became private secretary to Gen. Jackson, John, Governor of Kentucky, Cardwell a farmer, James a lawyer, Susan never married, and Jane married Dr. Sappington of Saline Co Mo. William Breathed died in 1817 and with the exception of Mrs. Sappington who alone attained old age, all his children died between 1830 and 1837. [This list omitted Eleanor who died at age 22, unmarried. Also Susan Breathitt was married twice.]
Governor Breathed's son Cardwell, removed to Arrow Rock [Saline Co] Mo. and is the only living representative of the name belonging to the Western branch of the family. Ellen Breathed married twice. Her first husband was Mr. Reynolds, and her second, Mr. Thomas. Her five children are buried in the Episcopal churchyard at Hancock. [Gov. John Breathitt did not have a daughter Ellen. This statement is so far unexplainable. Perhaps Ellen was the daughter of John Breathitt & Janes Kelley.]
Catherine Breathed [presumably a daughter of John Breathitt & Jane Kelley] married John Hunter, a merchant who was a native of Ireland. Of the several children of Catherine Hunter, only two are living, Ranney Hunter, who resides near Hagerstown, and Mrs. Kitty Steiger, who lives near Hancock. Three deceased members of this branch are on the Breathed farm in Pennsylvania.
Isaac Breathed, the grandfather of Maj. Breathed, married Kitty Lyles, daughter of Dr. Lyles, a surgeon in the Revolutionary army and lived on a farm near Hancock. He died 12 Jan 1858, aged eight-eight years. He had three children, two of whom are dead. His daughter Jane was first married to Rev. James Delaplane who died several years after his marriage leaving two children. She subsequently married Rev. James Buck, pastor of the Soldiers' Home and of a neighboring Episcopal Church, with position he has occupied for twenty-eight years.
Another daughter of Issac Breathed, Elizabeth, married Steven Snodgrass of Martinsburg, W. Va. and had seven children. The deceased members of this branch are also buried in the Episcopal church at Hancock. John W. Breathed is the sole survivor of Isaac Breathed's family who bears the family name. He married Ann McGill Williams, and had twelve children by this marriage. His second wife was Stella Cullen, daughter of Dr. Cullen of Richmond, by whom he had six children. Of his children by his first wife, seven are still living, four of them in Maryland. Grafton is a clerk in the house of Anderson & Bro.; Edward is a farmed near Hancock, Priscilla Williams married Robert Bridges of Hancock, Isaac is a sergeant in the regular army; Francis is a farmer and married Eleanor Shelton of VA; Elizabeth is unmarried and lives with Edward; John Breathed married Caroline Breathed of Missouri. Four of the children by his second wife are not yet grown, and live in Virginia. Seven of his children are dead, five of them being buried at St. Mark's church, near Breathedsville. Maj. Breathed is buried at St. Thomas' church, Hancock.
J. W. Breathed was born near Hancock in 1814. When sixteen years old, he was appointed by Gen. Jackson to a cadetship at West Point. His father wished to give him a classical education, but having caught the Western fever, he took a tour in that direction, but soon returned home. He married 1837, and entered into mercantile pursuits in Virginia. While residing in that State he served in the State Legislature as a representative of Morgan Co. In 1848 he left Virginia and returned to Maryland..... He returned to Virginia in 1871 and now resides at Lynchburg...
Ann McGill Williams, daughter of John McGill Williams, wife of John W. Breathed was born in 1819 in Montgomery Co MD...
John Breathed, second son of John W. Breathed was educated at St. James' College, MD. Before the war he conducted a farm for his father, but when Gen. Lee invaded Maryland, he embraced the opportunity of joining the Confederate army... [was captured] and taken as a spy to Chambersburg... He was sent to Philadelphia and was confined in company with a number of deserters.... Confinement soon affected his health and he was finally seized with an attack of typhoid fever which ended fatally. [There is something wrong with this last paragraph, John Breathed moved to Missouri where he was still alive for the 1880 census; his brother Major James Brethed was almost captured at Chambersburg; James died in 1870.]

Marriage	1740	Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland - Jane Kelley
Birth

Spouse	Jane Kelley ( - )
Child	William Breathitt (1757 - 1817)
Child	Edward Breathed ( - 1804)
Child	Isaac Breathed (1770 - 1858)
Child	James Breathed (1770 - 1843)
Child	George Breathed ( - )
Child	John Breathed (1779 - 1852)
Child	Ranney Breathed ( - 1839)
Child	Francis Breathed ( - 1836)
Child	Living
Child	Catherine Breathed ( - )
Child	Jane Breathed ( - )

Father	Isaac Breathitt ( - )
Mother	Ranney ( - )
Sibling	Ranney Breathitt ( - )