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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).
He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in the same cemetery were his wives Christian Hunter More and Jane (Crumpton) More. [28] [29] More, Mary*, (Shipton, Shropshire), [27] age 4, [30] assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died ...
William E. Brewster (1858–1945), American banker, merchant, and politician from Maine; William N. Brewster (1864–1917), American Protestant Christian missionary to China; William R. Brewster (1828–1869), American Civil War general; Willie Brewster (died 1965), whose murder was the first time in the history of Alabama that a white man was ...
William Brewster-In the 1580s, he was an assistant to William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I; Davison was a party to the 1587 execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About twenty years later, Brewster was among those prominent in the early English Separatist church, emigrating to Holland in 1608 where he became Ruling Elder of the Leiden church.
Pages in category "Mayflower passengers" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. ... Mary Brewster; William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
She would be the longest lived Mayflower passenger. In 1649 he succeeded Elder William Brewster as Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church. [16] Stephen Deane - Single on arrival and received one acre in the 1623 land division as “Steuen Dean.” Member of the 1626 Purchaser investment group as “Steeven Deane.” In the 1627 cattle division.
Mary Brewster (c. 1569 – April 17, 1627) was a Pilgrim and one of the women on the Mayflower. [1]She was the wife of Elder William Brewster. [2] She was one of only five adult women from the Mayflower to survive the first winter in the New World, and one of only four such to survive to the "first Thanksgiving" in 1621, which she helped cook.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) George Soule (c. 1601 – between 20 September 1677 and 22 January 1679) [1] was a colonist who was one of the indentured servants on the Mayflower and helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620. [1] He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.