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William Brewster died at Duxbury, 10 April 1644 and his wife Mary died at Plymouth on 17 April 1627. Brewster was much respected throughout his life and his death was a blow to those around him; Bradford said that it was a “mater of great sadness and mourning to them all.”
William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist).
Brewster then accompanied the first group of Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. The only university-trained member of the Plymouth community, he was the real leader of the church. As its senior elder, he dominated the formulation of its doctrines, worship, and practices.
The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower." ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth colony in 1620; by Jones, Emma C. Brewster, b. 1854
William Brewster, the only college-educated Pilgrim, most likely wrote the Mayflower Compact, and nearly all the men aboard the ship signed it. The document served as one of the first examples of self-governance in America. The first winter in Plymouth devastated the Pilgrims.
WILLIAM BREWSTER. ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland. MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower. FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth. REMOVES: Duxbury. OCCUPATION: Publisher (in Leiden). (See R. Breugelmans, ed.,
In September 1620, 41 members of the Leiden church were among the 102 passengers that departed Plymouth, England aboard the Mayflower. William Brewster, his wife, Mary, and two youngest sons, Love and Wrestling were among those passengers.
William Brewster (l. 1568-1644 CE) was an elder of the Leiden congregation of separatists (later known as pilgrims) and their spiritual leader while onboard the Mayflower and later after the establishment of the Plymouth Colony.
This chest, on display at the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, is said to have been brought on the Mayflower by William Brewster. William Brewster was born about 1566, the son of William Brewster. He was educated in both Greek and Latin and spent some time at Cambridge University, although he never completed a full degree.
When Brewster and other members of the Pilgrim community emigrated to America in 1620 on the Mayflower, their pastor John Robinson remained behind in Leiden. In the absence of an ordained minister, Brewster was the much-loved and respected religious leader of Plymouth Colony.