1800.
Elder William Brewster1000,2129,2412,2413,2414,2415,2416,2417,2418,2419,2420,2421 was born about 1566/67 in
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England.1000,1768,2412,2413,2422
"First Settlers..." says he was born in 1563 or earlier. Torrey Supplement
has ?1557. He emigrated from England on 16 Dec 1620.2423 He arrived on the "Mayflower". He died
on 10 Apr 1644 in Plymouth Colony.1768,1772,2129,2413,2423
He was a teacher and printer.2422
He was an ancestor of President Zachary Taylor. Elder William Brewster
and Mary Love were married before 1593 in England.1772,2413,2423,2424
1801. Mary Love2413,2423,2424
was born about 1569.2412,2413 She died on 17 Apr 1627
in Plymouth Colony.1772,2423,2424
Children were:
900 | i. | Jonathan Brewster. |
ii. | Patience Brewster1005,1763,1768,1773,2013,2415,2425,2426,2427,2428 was born about 1600 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England.1763 She died in 1634 in Plymouth Colony.1773,2425,2427,2428 | |
iii. | Fear Brewster1005,1762,1763,1768,2414,2415,2416,2417,2425,2426,2429,2430,2431 was born about 1606 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England.1763,2429 She died before 12 Dec 1634 in Plymouth Colony.1762,2414,2417,2429,2430,2431,2432 She died of "pestilent fever". | |
iv. | Child Brewster1005,1762,1763,1768 died on 20 Jun 1609 in Leyden, Holland.1762,1768 Child Brewster was born in 1609.1763 | |
v. | Love Brewster1762,1763,1772,2424,2426,2433
was born in 1611 in Holland.1763,2424 He died on 1 Oct 1650 in
Massachusetts.1006,2424,2433
He signed a will.2434
From The Mayflower Descendant, vol. ii. pp. 203-06
Love Brewster's will and inventory are recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, vol. i. folios 89, 90 and 91. [89] The last Will and Testament of Love Brewster Deseassed exhibited at the generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March 1650 upon the oath of Captaine Miles Standish Witnesseth these psents that I Love Brewster of Duxburrow in New England and in the government of New Plym: being in pfect memory doe ordeaine & appoint this to bee my last will and Testamente And first my will is that if the lord shall please to take mee out of this life that my body bee buried in a decent mannor and that my funerall expences bee taken out of my whole estate; Next my will is; That all my Just and lawfull debts bee paied out of the Remainder of my said estate allso I give unto my Children that is to say Nathaniell Willam Wrasteling and Sara each of them a kettle and further my will is that my three sonns shall have each of them a peece that is to say a gun; allso I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sara Brewster all the Residue of my whole estate both goods and Chattles and land at Duxburrow for the bringing up of her and my Children the time of her life and after her desease I doe give the aforsaid lands to my eldest sonn and heire apparent Nathaniell Brewster and in Case god should take him away out of this life without Issew I give and bequeath the said lands at Duxburrow to my second sonn Willam Brewster and in like Case to my youngest sonn Wresteling Brewster; And for those books I have that my wife would destribute them to herselfe and Children at her descresion allso my will is and I doe by the same give unto my three sonns equally to bee devided amongst them all such land as is of right due to mee by Purchase and first coming into the land Which was in the yeare 1620 allso I doe make Constitute and appoint my beloved wife Sara Brewster sole executrix of this my last will and Testament in Witnes Wherof I have put to my hand and Seale this sixt of october 1650 Wittnes heerunto Love Brewster Myles Standish (seale) A true Inventory of the estate of Love Brewster of Duxburrow late deseassed taken by mr Willam Collyar and Captaine Miles Standish January the last day 1650 And exhibited to the Generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March in the yeare aforesaid upon the oath of Sara Brewster | |
vi. | Wrestling Brewster1005,1762,1763,1768,2426 was born in 1614.1763 He died before 1644.1763 |