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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).
According to tradition, the first grave on Burial Hill was Pilgrim John Howland's. [5] However, he did not die until 1672; other people claimed to be buried there died considerably earlier. [6] First Parish's congregation currently meets in an 1899 church building at the base of Burial Hill on the town square, near where it first met in 1621. [7]
The site was the location of Duxbury's first meeting house. [1] It was in use from approximately 1638 until 1789 at which point the cemetery was abandoned. It was reclaimed in 1887 by the Duxbury Rural Society , generating a widespread interest in locating the resting place of Duxbury's most famous colonist, Myles Standish.
Located at 72 Allerton Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the 81-foot-tall (25 m) monument was commissioned by the Pilgrim Society.The original concept dates to around 1820, with actual planning beginning in 1850.
His burial site is located in Myles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury. [76] The site of Standish's house reveals only a slight depression in the ground where the cellar hole was, but it is now a small park owned and maintained by the town of Duxbury. [77] Standish, Maine [78] is named for him, as well as the neighborhood of Standish, Minneapolis.
The show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., explains Brewster was part of an effort to reform the Church of England in the early 1600s, forming a new religion entirely.
Other notable residents of Duxbury included John Alden, William Brewster, and Governor Thomas Prence. [54]: 280 Marshfield, settled 1632, incorporated 1640. Home to Governor Edward Winslow. Also home to Josiah Winslow, who was governor of the colony during King Philip's War, and to Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England.
Mary More, age 4, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. Her burial place is unknown, but may have been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with many others buried there that winter.