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About Thomas Brewer, of Somerset, England
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 14 2016, 0:11:39 UTC
- ************************************************************** There was a Thomas Brewer and a John Brewer on the voyage with Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580, the first English voyage to circumvent the globe. This Thomas Brewer was killed and eaten by natives on this voyage. I had thought this to be the son of Thomas Brewer (1540-1635) and thus the brother of John Brewer I (1565-1635), but I am suspicious of this theory since John Brewer I mentions his brother Thomas Brewer in his will, meaning that he was still living when the will was written in 1631. It is possible, though, that the Thomas Brewer that was eaten by natives was another brother, and that the one mentioned in the will was named after the first who had been killed. The John Brewer who was on the voyage with Sir Francis Drake, I believe to be our John Brewer I (1565-1635). He was requested to join the voyage when young, as Sir Francis Drake's bugler. They became good friends and John married one of his sons after him. Also of value to note, it that it is likely that John Brewer I was a relation to Sir Francis Drake. His mother was Mary Drake and much later his grandson John Brewer III married Anne Drake.
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Thomas Brewer, of Somerset, England's Timeline
| 1596 |
1596
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Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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| 1658 |
May 29, 1658
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Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Present USA)
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| 1690 |
March 23, 1690
Age 94
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Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America
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