Brewster Genealogy

(1) Elder William BREWSTER
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Birth:         1567, (Probably) Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
Death:        10 Apr 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Occ:             Religious Leader Of The Plymouth Plantation
Educ:          Attended Peterhouse In Cambridge, England In 1580
Father:       William BREWSTER II (ca 1535-1590)
Mother:     Mary (Smythe) SIMKINSON

Spouse:     Mary ?
Birth:         ca 1569
Death:       17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Marr:         1591

Children:  Jonathan (1593-1659)
                   Patience (ca 1600-<1634)
                   Fear (ca 1606-<1634)
                   Child? (Died in Youth) (1609-br. 1609)
                   Love (ca 1611-ca 1650)
                   Wrestling (ca 1614-<1644)

Notes:  Came to America on the Mayflower in 1620.  Although never a minister in the Pilgrim sense, he was the true leader of the church at Plymouth. As an administrator he was second only to Governor William Bradford. In 1627, he became one of the eight who assumed the Colony's debt.
 

(2) Jonathan BREWSTER
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Birth:          12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
Death:         7 Aug 1659, New London, New London, CT
Burial:        Brewster Cemetery, Brewster's Neck, Preston, CT

Spouse:      Lucretia OLDHAM
Bapt:           4 Jan 1600, Derby, England
Death:        4 Mar 1678/1679, Norwich (Now Preston), CT
Burial:       Brewster Cemetery, Brewster's Neck, Preston, CT
Father:       William OLDHAM
Mother:     Phillipa SOWTER
Marr:          10 Apr 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA

Children:  William (1625-<1658)
                    Mary (1627->1697)
                    Jonathan (1629-)
                    Ruth (1631-1677)
                    Benjamin (1633-1710)
                    Elizabeth (1637-1708)
                    Grace (1639-1684)
                    Hannah (1641->1691)
 

(3) Grace BREWSTER
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Birth:          1 Nov 1639, Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
Death:        22 Apr 1684, New London, New London, CT

Spouse:      Daniel WETHERELL (Or Witherell)
Birth:          29 Nov 1630, Free School House, Maidstone, Kent, England
Death:        14 Apr 1719, New London, New London, CT
Father:       Rev. William WETHERELL (Or Witherell)
Mother:     Mary FISHER
Marr:          4 Aug 1659, New London, New London, CT

Children:  Hannah (1659-)
                    Mary (Died in Youth) (1662-1662)
                    "Son" (Stillborn)
                    "Son" (Stillborn)
                    "Son" (Stillborn)
                    "Son" (Stillborn)
                    Mary (1668-1711)
                    Daniel (Died in Youth) (1670-)
                    Samuel (Died in Youth) (ca 1679-)


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