Rev. Daniel Brewer, III

The Rev. Daniel Brewer was born on February 7, 1669 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His parents must have prospered enough for Daniel to devote some of his time to school work, and as a result he graduated from Harvard University in 1687 with a degree in divinity. About seven years later he was ordained as the third minister of the Congregational church of Springfield, Massachusetts.

In 1699 Daniel married Katherine Chauncey (or Chauncy) who was the granddaughter of Charles Chauncy, the second president of Harvard (and one of the characters in the novel Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks). Perhaps the couple had met when Daniel studied there although Katherine was seven years younger than her husband. The Brewers raised a large family and kept one or more slaves as part of their household as did many other well-to-do citizens in Massachusetts of the colonial era. Daniel died on November 5, 1733 and Katherine died in 1754.

http://www3.amherst.edu/~rhromer/MISC/Slavery.htm

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (three volumes) by Ancestry.com

Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650–1855, by Joseph Carvalho, 1984