Daniel Brewer

Summary

• Birth about 1624 in England son of Daniel Joanna Brewer [named in father's will see father's profiel]
• Death 9 Jan 1708/9 in Roxbury, MA aged 84;
• He married Hannah Morrill dau of Isaac Morrill 5 Nov 1652 [Great Migration Begins 2:1291]
• Hannah, wid. Daniel, (died) Oct 6, 1717, a. 81 y. [RoxburyVR 2:472]
• He was a member of the Artillery Company

Biography

Daniel Brewer was born in England c1624, son of Daniel and Joanna (unknown) Brewer. His father, Daniel Sr. wrote his will on January 12, 1645/6, leaving his lands to his wife Joanna and son Daniel, and monetary sums to his other children. Daniel married Hannah Morrill, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (unknown) Morrill, at Roxbury, Massachusetts on November 5, 1652. Hannah was born at Roxbury in September, 1616. Daniel died at Roxbury, Massachusetts on January 9, 1708, at the age of 84. His widow Hannah died there on October 6, 1717.

• 1646: October 8: Joanna Brewer and her son Daniel, he being of 'full age', mortgaged 6 acres of land in Roxbury and 5 acres of meadow at Gravelly Point to Thomas Dudley.
• 1661/2: January 23: The will of his father-in-law, Isaac Morrill was proved, and in it he left bequests to 'his son Daniel Brewer' among others. Daniel was one of the executors.

He was a member of the Artillery Company and a signatory of the "Censures on Harvard College."

Children

The birth of three children are recorded in Roxbury vital records:

1. inf. ch. Daniel, Mar 9, 1660. [RoxVR 44 under Bruer citing Brewer Ct. R]
2. Hannah, born at Roxbury on July 5, 1665.
3. Daniel, born at Roxbury on February 7, 1668/9.

His son Daniel attended Harvard College and in 1687 he became a Minister at Springfield. He married Katherine Chauncey.

His daughter married John Bowen.

One of his daughters may have married Robert1 Porteous (Portise) of Boston who died in Jul 1681 at the home of his daughter Hannah Porteous who married John3 Weld (John2, Joseph1). In his will he calls Daniel and Nathaniel Brewer his "bothers." However, examination of the probate records indicated no other children besides Daniel and Hannah. So this seems unlikely at best.

NEHGR 142:267 states that Thomas1 Webster bp 1631 m Sarah Brewer dau of Daniel Brewer of Roxbury 2 Nov 1657. This is not correct. She was daughter of Thomas1 Brewer.

Probate

His estate was probated and administration granted to his son Daniel on 16 Apr 1709 (Case 3173) as his wife Hannah was in too weak estate to handle the task. His admin. papers were signed by signed Daniel Brewer Charles Chauncy and Eze Lewis. Inventory was taken 25 Apr 1709. No will was found but @3173:11 a letter regarding an agreement as to the division of his estate includes his wife Hannah and his daughter Hannah wife of John Bowen and his son Daniel of Springfield. No other heirs are named.

Censures on Harvard College

• "Censures on Harvard College - 1692" NEHGR Vol 35 Page 122

The humble petition of some of the people that lyve under the Jurisdiction of the massachusets government, unto our honored Magistrats this 5th day of march 1672 \ Sheweth

That whereas it hath pleased our ever honored Magistrats to send their letters to the Churches to move us to a liberal contributtion to the Colledge. and inone of those leters declared that ifr any of the good people have any ojecsion you give us leave to propose it, and also are pleased to promise us, to adde your indeavor to remove the same. We take the boldnesse to propose an objecsion not with any; intent to shorten either our owne or others hands to so good and pius a work, as we trust we shll make it appeare by our actions. but our only scope is, to indevor the removal of an evyl (as it appereth to us) in the educasion of y;outh at the College. and that is, that they are brought up in such pride as doth no wayes become such as are brought up for the holy service of the lord, either in the Magistracy, or ministry especialy, and in perticular in their long haire, which last first tooke had, and broke out at the Colledg so as we understand and remember. and now it is got into our pulpets, to the great greife and ffeare of many godly hears in the Country.

We find in the scriptures that the sons of the prophets, and such as were dedicated to god, were brought up in a way of mortification and humility. we beseech you to consider amos. 2.11.12 I raised up of your sons to be prohets and of your y;oung men to be Nazariets, is it not even thus o ye children ofr Israel saith the lord, but he have given the nazarites wine to drink. Consider also pro. 16.31 the hoary head is a crowne og glory if it be found in the way of righteousness and are those haires so found, that are defiled with this lust? we beseech you consider wether all other lusts which have so incorigibly brake in upon ouryouth have not first sprung from the incorrigablenessse of this lust. our humble request is that you would please to use all due indeavours to cure this evyl. and so we coomend you to thelord and to the word of his grace and remains yourumble peocinors attthethron of grac to assest and in able you in all your Weighty consarns and remain your Worships humble petitioners. (The list of petitioners includes names of John Eliot, Daniel Bruer, and Edward Bridge)

Sources

1. Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926), II:472. BREWER, Hannah, wid. Daniel, (died) Oct 6, 1717, a. 81 y.
2. Daniel Brewer in the New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 by Anderson p 255+ Link to 225
3. Dawes-Gates 1:108-11
4. History of the ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. by O.A. Robert (1895) 1:205
5. Harvard, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), 1019-21.

Roxbury Vital records

• Roxbury Marriages
  • Bruer, Daniel, and Hanna Monrell, Nov. 5, 1652. (V. 2 p. 51: P. 286)
• Roxbury Births
  • Morroll, Hanna [Morrell. ct. r.], d. Isack, Sept. 12, 1636. [6:7m. ct. r.] (V. 1 p. 250)
  • Brewer, Hannah, d. Daniel, July 5, 1665. (V. 1 p. 39)
  • Brewer, Daniell, s. Daniell, Feb. 7, 1668. [1668-9. C. R. 1.] (V. 1 p. 38)
  • inf. ch. Daniel, Mar 9, 1660. [RoxVR 44 under Bruer citing Brewer Ct. R]
• Roxbury Deaths
  • Brewer, Daniel, Jan. 9, 1708, a. 84 y. (V. 2 p. 272)
  • Brewer, Hannah wid. Daniel, Oct. 6, 1717, a. 81. (V. 2 p. 272)