Twelfth Generation

3190. William BREWSTER¹⁷⁷ was born about 1566 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 10 April 1644 at the age of 78 in Duxbury, MA. He was an assistant to William Davison, one of Queen Elizabeth's Secretaries of State, and he went to Holland with Davison in 1585 on a diplomatic mission. When Davison was imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth as a scapegoat for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Brewster returned to Scrooby and subsequently was appointed to his father's old post there as postmaster, holding that position until 1607.

William Brewster was one of the original members of the separatist congregation at Scrooby which became the nucleus for the Pilgrim church. He emigrated with other Pilgrims to Leyden in 1608 and became an elder of their church. He entered but did not graduate from Peterhouse, Cambridge. He came on the Mayflower; daughters Patience and Fear arrived on the Anne.

See The Pilgrim Migration, pp. 66-70, for more about William Brewster. MARY and William BREWSTER were married before 1593.

3191. MARY died on 17 April 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA.

Children were:

1595	i.	Patience BREWSTER.
	ii.	Jonathan BREWSTER¹⁷⁸ was born on 12 August 1593 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He was born on 12 August 1593. He arrived in 1621 on the Fortune. In 1635 he was in charge of a trading post in Connecticut on behalf of Plymouth Colony, later return to Plymouth. In 1652 he started his own trading post in Connecticut and was cesured for doing sso without permission, but allowed to keep it. He was a close friend of Connecticut Governor John Winthrop, Jr.
	iii.	Fear BREWSTER was born about 1605.
	iv.	Love BREWSTER¹⁷⁸ was born about 1607.
	v.	Wrestling BREWSTER¹⁷⁹ was born about 1611. He died unmarried.