William Brewster

Abt 1567 - 1644  (~ 77 years)

• Name	William Brewster  [1]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1566	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Alternate birth	Between Jun 1566 and Jun 1567	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [5]
  Birth	Abt 1567	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Apr 1644	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 5, 7]
  Person ID	I4524	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	William Brewster,   b. Abt 1535, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 1590 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Mary Smythe   d. Aft 1566
  Family ID	F3775	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1593	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [3, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Brewster,   b. 12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 7 Aug 1659, New London, New London, Connecticut (Age 65 years) + 2. Patience Brewster,   b. Abt 1603, England d. 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 31 years)   3. Fear Brewster,   b. Abt 1605   d. Bef 12 Dec 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 29 years) + 4. Love Brewster,   b. Abt 1607   d. Between 6 Oct 1650 and 31 Jan 1651 (Age ~ 43 years)
  Family ID	F2643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower. Senior elder and (until the arrival of pastor Ralph Smith in 1629) religious leader of the Plymouth colony. The only Mayflower passenger with a university education and with political and diplomatic experience. Extensive Wikipedia article here. William Brewster (~1566-1644) = Mary (d. 1627) Fear Brewster (~1606-1634) = Isaac Allerton (~1586-1659) Isaac Allerton, Jr. (~1629-1702) = Elizabeth Willoughby (~1635->1672) Sarah Allerton (~1670-1731) = Hancock Lee (~1653-1729) Elizabeth Lee (~1708-~1750) = Zachary Taylor (1707-1768) Richard Taylor (1744-1829) = Sarah Dabney Strother (~1760-1822) Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the United States William Brewster (1566-1644) = Mary (d. 1627) Jonathan Brewster (1593-1659) = Lucretia Oldham (1600-1678) Benjamin Brewster (1633=1710) = Ann Addis (1628-1709) William Brewster (1669-1728) = Patience (d. 1740) Patience Brewster (b. 1699) = Matthew Dewolfe (1697-1783) Edward Dewolfe (1735-1790) = Elizabeth (d. 1787) Edward Dewolfe (1768-1835) = Sarah Bill (1768-1854) Charles De Wolf (1794-1870) = Betsy Putnam (1794-1881) John Archelous De Wolf (1833-1901) = Louise Doty (1835-1879) Ida Corinne De Wolf (1863-1944) = LaFayette Waterbury (1864-1931) Ledora May Waterbury (1885-1959) = Harry Ross Hubbard (1886-1975) Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) Other descendants of William Brewster include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, John Batterson Stetson, George B. McClellan, Clarence Day, Archibald MacLeish, Admiral William Halsey, Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower, Thomas Pynchon, Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Hepburn, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Julia Child, Glenn Close, Norman Rockwell, Ted Danson, Pete Seeger, Orrin Hatch, Brewster Kahle, Annie Proulx, Bill Richardson, Richard Gere, Howard Dean, Chevy Chase, and James Taylor.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7182] A Portrait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio. Volume 2. Logansport, Indiana: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1898. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S548] John G. Hunt, "The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 124:250, October 1970. [S633] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 24, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4 by Barbara Lambert Merrick. Edited by Scott Andrew Bartley. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S1652] George Ernest Bowman, "Jonathan Brewster's Family Record." The Mayflower Descendant 32:1, Jan 1934.