Deacon William Brewster

Mayflower descendant - his grandparents were Pilgrims Mary & William Brewster. -tcd

Deacon William Brewster was born in 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA and died 3 Nov 1723, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA.

Parents: Love Brewster (1611->1650) and Sarah Collier (~1615-1691)

Married:

1. on 2 Jan 1672 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony to Lydia Partridge (d. 1742/3). She was the daughter of George Partridge & Sarah Tracy.

8 children include:

1. Sarah (1674-)
2. Nathaniel (1676-<1755)
3. Lydia (1680-)
4. William (1683-1768)
5. Mercy (1685-)
6. Benjamin (1688-)
7. Joseph (1693-1767)
8. Joshua (~1698-1776)

Notes

Brewster Genealogy, pp. 39-40:

“The inscription on his gravestone in the old cemetery at South Duxbury, Mass., says: ‘Here lyes ye body of Deacon William Brewster / who departed this life Novbr ye 3d 1723 / aged near 78 year.’

“William Brewster lived at Duxbury and was ‘a worthy man, who was often employed to good advantage in the civil affairs of the town.’ He was made a freeman in 1689. For many years he was a deacon of the church at Duxbury. He was an extensive land owner and he distributed the land by deeds ‘for love to his sons.’”

Links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ktupper/ps04/ps04...

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jul 21 2016, 23:48:44 UTC
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• 1 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 378.
• 2 Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 33, 39-40, Internet Archive (Digital Library). AncestryImage
• 3 Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 114, 191-194.
• 4 Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 14, 39-40.
• 5 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018), New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• 6 Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 33.
• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Plymouth/Duxbury/aMarriagesB.shtml "(Brewster) William and Lydia Partridge [Lideah Parteridg. dup.], Jan. 2, 1672.*"
• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Plymouth/Duxbury/Images/Duxbury_D356.... "(Brewster) William, Dea. [h. Lydia], Nov. 3, 1723"
• Ancestry.com. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Volume lll. “Brewster Family.” Page 79. AncestryImage