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Joseph Brand (1605 - 9 October 1674) was an English merchant, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Brand was the son of John Brand of Edwardstone and his wife Susan Lappage, daughter of Thomas Lappage of Boxford. He became a merchant in London and was a member of the Worshipful Company of Salters by 1632. He was only moderately successful and succeeded to his father's estates in Suffolk in 1642. He took no part in the Civil War but became a Presbyterian elder of Lavenham classis in 1645. He was commissioner for assessment for Suffolk in 1649. He was elected alderman of London in March 1650 but gave up the post on paying a fine in April 1650. From 1650 to 1670 he was a J.P. for Suffolk. He was commissioner for scandalous ministers in 1654 and commissioner for mi