Love Brewster

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1614

Notes:

Arrived with his parents in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Love married Sarah Collier on 15 May 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of William Collier and Jane Yates) was born before 30 Apr 1616; was christened on 30 Apr 1616 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England; died on 26 Apr 1691 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Benjamin Bartlett between 4 Apr 1654 and 8 Aug 1655. Benjamin (son of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren) was born about 1629; died between 29 Aug 1691 and 28 Aug 1691 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Ruth Pabodie in Dec 1677 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden) was born on 27 Jun 1658 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died between 25 Apr 1724 and 27 Mar 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1702
• Alternate birth: 18 Mar 1704, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Abigail married Gamaliel Bradford on 30 Aug 1728 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Gamaliel (son of Samuel Bradford and Hannah Rogers) was born on 18 May 1704 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 24 Apr 1778 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, South Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[O]ne of the Committee of Correspondence in the early part of the Revolution. He raised and commanded a company in Col. Cotton's regiment. By over exertion in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, his health became so impaired that he was compelled to return home, where he d. 17 Feb., 1777, ae. 47." ["A Genealogy of the Bradford Family", citation details below.]

Samuel married Grace Ring on 1 Nov 1749 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Grace (daughter of Samuel Ring and Ruth Sylvester) was born on 6 Apr 1730 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 20 Apr 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Mar 1841, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York

Notes:

If she died in Poughkeepsie as asserted in the Stephen Hopkins Mayflower Families through Five Generations book (citation details below), she must have removed there very late in life, as the records of her pension application state that she personally appeared before the Plymouth probate judge, calling herself "a resident of Duxbury" (and "aged Eighty years") in Aug 1838.

A typewritten letter from one Winfield Scott, Commissioner of the "Rev. & 1812 Wars Section" of the Federal pension office, to Mary C. Fraprie of Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, dated 16 Oct 1928, narrates Isaac Drew's service in the Revolution in some detail, and ends with the note that Isaac Drew's wife Welthea Bradford — who, the letter notes, he married "October 1, 1781", agreeing with the other genealogical sources cited here — was "allowed pension on her application executed August 16, 1838, while a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts, aged eighty years. She died June 8, 1846." Which is entirely different from the information given in the Hopkins Mayflower Families book.

The Mayflower Families books use the much-complained-about "giant block of citations" model, in which it can be very difficult to determine which cited source or authority attaches to which stated fact. Failing a specific reason to believe that Welthea Bradford died in Poughkeepsie — or in 1841, as asserted by Ruth Gardiner Hall (citation details below) — we're inclined to believe Commissioner Scott's report that she died 8 June 1846, even if he was writing over eighty years later. For the simple reason that pension offices are strongly motivated to accurately know when their beneficiaries have died and no longer require further applications of public funds.

Welthea married Isaac Drew on 1 Oct 1781 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Isaac (son of Samuel Drew and Faith Petersen) was born in Jun 1748 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 3 Nov 1835 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a master mariner.

Family/Spouse: Caroline Cleapor. Caroline (daughter of Charles Cleapor) was born about 1794 in of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina; died on 1 Jul 1854 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a machinist.

Edwin married Sarah Adelaide George on 27 Oct 1864 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Benjamin Franklin George and Catherine Clark) was born about 1847 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 10 Dec 1909 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]