Mary Smyth

Mary married William Brewster in 1563 in Stainforth, Yorkshire, England. William (son of William Brewster, II and Maude Brewster) was born in 1535 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1590 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Birth: 1566
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire, England
Death: Apr. 10, 1644 Plymouth
Cemetery: Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Pilgrim colonist, leader and preacher
Elder William Brewster came from Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire and reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the Mayflower in 1620. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons, Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster. The town of Brewster, Barnstable, MA was incorporated Febr 19, 1803 and was named for Elder William Brewster. A large part of the inhabitants being his descendants
William Brewster attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge 1580-1583; was postmaster and baliff-receiver at Scrooby, England 1590-1607. Organized Scrooby congregation 1606-1609; removed his family to Amsterdam and later to Leyden, Holland where he tutored 1609-1616 and was ruling Elder 1616-1619. He was in flight and hiding in England in 1619-1620 while arranging passage to New England. William, his wife and two youngest sons arrived Plymouth via the Mayflower in 1620. At Plymouth, William was Ruling Elder until 1643. He was also purchaser 1626; Undertaker 1627-1641

Spouse:
Mary Brewster (1570 - 1627)*

Children:
Patience Brewster Prence (1590 - 1634)*
Jonathan Brewster (1593 - 1659)*
Fear Brewster Allerton (1606 - 1634)*
Love Brewster (1611 - 1651)*
Wrestling Brewster (1614 - ____)*


Volume 1: The Brewster Genealogy 1566-1907
http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190801jone
Volume 2 (with name index in the back for research):
http://www.archive.org/details/brewstergenealog190802jone



William Brewster (c. 1566 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. In Plymouth Colony he became a Separatists leader and preacher.[1]
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William Brewster was most probably born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, about 1566, and died at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 10 April 1644. He was the son of William Brewster and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) and he had a number of half-siblings. His paternal grandparents were William Brewster (1510–1558), and Maud Mann (1513–1558). His maternal grandfather was William Smythe (1505–1560).[2][3]

He studied briefly at Peterhouse, Cambridge before entering the service of William Davison in 1584.[4] Brewster was the only Pilgrim with political and diplomatic experience. With his mentor in prison, Brewster had returned home to Scrooby for a time, where he took up his father’s former position as postmaster.[5] Cambridge was a centre of thought concerning religious reformism, but Brewster had spent time in the Netherlands in connection with Davison's work, giving him opportunity to hear and see more of reformed religion. While, earlier in the 16th century, reformers had hoped to amend the Anglican church, by the end of it, many were looking toward splitting from it.[6] (See Brownist.)

Restrictions and pressures applied by the authorities convinced the congregation of a need to emigrate to the more sympathetic atmosphere of Holland, but leaving England without permission was illegal at the time, so that departure was a complex matter. On its first attempt, in 1607, the group was arrested at Scotia Creek, but in 1608 Brewster and others were successful in leaving from The Humber. In 1609, he was selected as ruling elder of the congregation.[5]
Life in Holland[edit]
A rare 17th-century "Brewster Chair," named after the original owned by William Brewster[7]

William lived near Pieterskerk (St Peter’s church] with his wife and children. He taught English to Leiden University students and was also a printer of religious pamphlets. His son, Jonathan, was a ribbonweaver. William was chosen as assistant and later as an elder to Pastor John Robinson. He was still an elder when he travelled to Plymouth Colony in 1620.[3]

In Leiden, the group managed to make a living. Brewster taught English and later, in 1616–1619, as the partner of one Thomas Brewer, printed and published religious books for sale in England, though they were proscribed there. In 1619, Brewster and Edward Winslow published a religious tract critical of the English king and his bishops. James ordered Brewster’s arrest, and when the king’s agents in Holland came to seize the Pilgrim elder, Brewster was forced into hiding just as preparations to depart for America entered the most critical phase. The printing type was seized by the authorities from the English ambassador, Sir Dudley Carleton, and Brewster's partner was arrested. Brewster escaped and, with the help of Robert Cushman and Sir Edwin Sandys, obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company on behalf of himself and his colleagues.[8]

With Brewster in hiding, the Separatists looked to their deacon John Carver and to Robert Cushman to carry on negotiations with the appropriate officials in London.[9] In 1620 when it came time for the Mayflower departure, Elder Brewster returned to the Leiden congregation. He had been hiding out in Holland and perhaps even England for the last year. At the time of his return, Brewster was the highest-ranking layperson of the congregation and would be their designated spiritual leader in the New World.[10]

Brewster joined the first group of Separatists aboard the Mayflower on the voyage to North America. Brewster was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons: Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster.[11]
Mayflower voyage[edit]

Among children boarding the Mayflower were four children from Shipton in Shropshire placed as indentured servants with senior Separatists with William Brewster, John Carver and Robert Cushman, on behalf of Samuel More, husband of the children’s mother Katherine More. The children were placed without their mother’s permission after four rancorous years between the More adults over charges of adultery against Katherine More with her longtime lover, the children’s alleged father. Two children were placed with William and Mary Brewster – Mary More, age four and Richard More, age five. Mary was to die in the winter of 1620 as did two other siblings. Only Richard survived and lived with them until approximately 1627. The event has become a bizarre 17th century historic incident. It is not known what Brewster knew about the More children.[12]
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899

The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out the ship was buffeted by strong westerly gales. The ship‘s timbers were badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water. Passengers laid wet and ill even when in their berths. This, combined with a poor rations and unsanitary conditions for several months attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the journey there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger. The worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination. In the space of several months almost half the passengers perished in the cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter.[13]

On 9/19 November 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day.[13][14]
Landing and life in the New World[edit]

When the colonists landed at Plymouth Colony, Brewster became the senior elder of the colony, serving as its religious leader and as an adviser to Governor William Bradford. Brewster's son Jonathan joined the family in November 1621, arriving at Plymouth on the ship Fortune, and daughters Patience and Fear arrived in July 1623 aboard the Anne.[15]

As the only university educated member of the colony, Brewster took the part of the colony's religious leader until a pastor, Ralph Smith, arrived in 1629. Thereafter, he continued to preach irregularly until his death in April 1644. “He was tenderhearted and compassionate of such as were in misery,” Bradford write, “but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and fallen unto want and poverty.” [16]

Brewster was granted land amongst the islands of Boston Harbor, and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster and Outer Brewster) now bear his name. In 1632, Brewster received lands in nearby Duxbury and removed from Plymouth to create a farm there.[17]

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the English and the Indians in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.[18]

William Brewster died and was buried on 10 April 1644 at Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts. At present, a gravestone/memorial stone exists there for him. The memorial stone states that it is in honor of "Elder William Brewster Patriarch of the Pilgrims and their Ruling Elder 1609–1644". The burial place of his wife Mary "Mayflower", who died in 1627, is unknown."[19]
Family[edit]
Title page of a pamphlet published by William Brewster in Leiden

Sometime before 1593, in England, William Brewster married Mary "Mayflower" Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, Esquire (1522–1574), and Grace Gascoigne (1532–1574).[20][21][22][23][24] She was born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England in 1569. She 'dyed at Plymouth, Massachusetts on 17 April 1627.' (Brewster Book).* Bradford says that, though she died ' long before' her husband, 'yet she dyed aged,' but by her affidavit of 1609 she was less than sixty years of age and it is probable that her ' great & continuall labours, with others crosses, and sorrows, hastened it (t. a. old age) before y* time.'[25]

The children of William and Mary were:

Elder Jonathan Brewster (12 August 1593 – 7 August 1659) married Lucretia Oldham of Derby on 10 April 1624,[23][26][27][28][29] and were the parents of eight children.
Patience Brewster (c. 1600 – 12 December 1634)[23] married Gov. Thomas Prence of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, 4 children.
Fear Brewster (c. 1606 – before 1634)[23] so called because she was born at the height of the Puritans' persecution. Married Isaac Allerton of London, 2 children.
Unnamed child was born, died and buried in 1609 in Leiden, Holland.[23]
Love Brewster was born in Leiden, Holland about 1611 and died between 6 October 1650 and 31 January 1650/1, at Duxbury, Massachusetts.[23][30][31] At the age of about 9, he travelled with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Collier in Plymouth, Massachusetts on 15 May 1634. Love and Sarah were the parents of 4 children.
Wrestling Brewster was born in 1614 in Leiden, Holland; was living in 1627, died unmarried before the 1644 settlement of his father's estate.[23]

William married Mary Love Wentworth in 1592 in , Nottinghamshire, England. Mary (daughter of Thomas Wentworth and Grace Margaret (Lady) Gascoigne) was born in Sep 1568 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Aug. 12, 1593 Nottinghamshire, England
Death: Aug. 7, 1659 Norwich New London County Connecticut, USA
h/o Lucretia Oldham; s/o William & Mary Brewster
Burial: Brewster Cemetery, Brewster's Neck, Preston, CT
Citizen: 30 June 1617, Became Dutch Citizen
Immigration: 09 November 1621, On "Fortune"
"Lintwerker" or ribbon maker in Pieterskerhof, Holland
Surveyor (laid out highways)
Military commissioner in the Pequot War in 1637
Tradesman
Started a Ferry company
Lawyer

Spouse:
Lucretia Oldham Brewster (1600 - 1671)*

Children:
Mary Brewster Turner (1627 - 1691)*
Ruth Brewster Hill Pickett (1631 - 1677)*
Benjamin Brewster (1633 - 1710)*
Elizabeth Brewster Bowen (1637 - 1713)*
Grace Brewster Wetherell (1639 - 1684)*
Hannah Brewster Starr Morgan (1641 - 1711)*

Burial:
Brewster's Neck Cemetery
Preston
New London County
Connecticut, USA

Jonathan married Lucretia Oldham on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Lucretia was born on 14 Jan 1600 in Derby, Derbyshire, England; died on 4 Mar 1678 in Brewsters Neck, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: unknown
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire, England
Death: 1634
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

Patience Brewster was born most likely in Scrooby, England, to Elder William Brewster and Mary (maiden name varies by source). Her birthdate ranges from 1595 to 1603.

She arrived in Plymouth aboard the "Anne" in 1623 along with her sister, Fear. Her parents and brothers, Love and Wrestling, arrived during 1620 on the Mayflower. Her other brother, Jonathan, arrived with her future husband, Thomas Prence, on the ship Fortune.
On August 5, 1624, she married Thomas Prence who would, on January 1, 1634, become the 4th Governor of the Colony. Together, they had four children, Rebecca, Thomas, Hannah and Mercy.

She died in 1634 of "a pestilent feaver", and is buried on Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Some SOURCES:
1. BOOK: Mayflower Families in Progress, WILLIAM BREWSTER of the Mayflower and his Descendant for Four Generations, revised edition, 2000 (MFIP Brewster #20).

2. A History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, With Genealogical Registers, by Justin Winsor, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2007. Originally published Boston, 1849, reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1995.

3. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Volume II], by Frederick Freeman, Published Boston 1862, published online by Google Books 2009, original publisher Geo. C. Band & Avery & Cornhill, Boston, Mass. 1858

4. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 340, 341


Family links:
Parents:
William Brewster (1566 - 1644)
Mary Brewster (1570 - 1627)

Spouse:
Thomas Prence (1600 - 1673)*

Children:
Mercy Prence Freeman (____ - 1711)*
Hannah Prence Mayo Sparrow (1629 - ____)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

Patience married Thomas Prence on 5 Aug 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Thomas (son of Thomas Prence and Elizabeth Tolderby) was born on 6 Aug 1599 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Mar 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1623, , , Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Fear Allerton Born Fear Brewster
c. 1606
Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Died c. 1634
probably Massachusetts, British Empire Nationality English Subject Known for Early American Settler Spouse(s)Isaac Allerton Children Isaac Allerton Jr., Sarah Allerton Parents William Brewster, Mary Brewster

Fear Allerton née Brewster (c. 1606 - before December 12, 1634) was a woman in Colonial America. She was the third daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster and his wife Mary, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She was named Fear because at the time of her birth, the Puritans were holding secret meetings and were under constant threat of arrest. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608 she moved, along with the other pilgrims, to Amsterdam (and later Leiden).

Fear was only 14 when her parents and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling, left for America on the Mayflower. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and Patience (born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the Fortune. Fear arrived in America with Patience on board the Anne in July 1623.

Fear married Isaac Allerton, another Mayflower pilgrim, around 1626. He was 20 years her senior. They had a son, Isaac Allerton Jr., born about 1627. There is speculation that they had a daughter, Sarah Allerton, who was baptised on August 13, 1633 and probably died in infancy.

Fear died young, but the exact date is unknown. She died sometime before her sister Patience's death December 12, 1634.
Persondata Name Brewster, Fear
Place of birth Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
Place of death probably Massachusetts, British Empire
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Fear arrived July 1623 on the ship Anne with her Aunt Patience Brewster.

Fear Allerton née Brewster (c. 1606 - before December 12, 1634) was the third daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster and his wife Mary, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She was named Fear because at the time of her birth, the Puritans were holding secret meetings and were under constant threat of arrest. Her early years, and indeed her whole life, were full of unrest. In 1608 she moved, along with the other pilgrims, to Amsterdam (and later Leiden).

Fear was only 14 when her parents and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling, left for America on the Mayflower. She was left in the care of her older siblings, Jonathan (born in 1593) and Patience (born in 1600). Jonathan joined the pilgrims in 1621 on board the Fortune. Fear arrived in America with Patience on board the Anne in July 1623.

Fear married Isaac Allerton on 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Isaac (son of Edward Allerton and Rose Davis) was born in Sep 1583 in , Suffolk, England; died on 12 Feb 1659 in New London, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; was buried in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Love married Sarah Collier on 25 May 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Turner on 10 Nov 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. John was born on 22 Oct 1620 in Terling, Essex, England; died on 20 May 1697 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Edmund Freeman on 22 Apr 1646 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Edmund (son of Edmund Freeman and Bennett Hodsoll) was born on 26 Nov 1620 in Billingshurst, Sussex, England; died on 29 Mar 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Nathaniel Mayo on 13 Feb 1650 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Nathaniel (son of John Mayo and Tamisen Brike) was born in 1621 in Greater Middleton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 24 Feb 1661 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Elizabeth Willoughby on 8 Sep 1662 in , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Willoughby and Sarah Thompson) was born on 27 Sep 1635 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Apr 1672 in Narrows Plantation, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John Priest in 1647 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of Degory Priest and Sarah Ann Allerton) was born in 1616 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; died on 31 Dec 1704 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]