Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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).
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.
The public baptism ceremony was usually performed within six months of birth. [3]: 142 Marriage was considered a civil ceremony, rather than a religious one. The Pilgrims saw this arrangement as biblical, there being no evidence from Scripture that a minister should preside over a wedding. [4]: 104
Elder William Brewster: 54 One of the leaders of the Pilgrims in Scrooby, England and Leyden in the Netherlands. Secret meetings of the Separatists began in Brewster's home, Scrooby Manor. He was an elder of the Pilgrim church until his death in 1643 “near fourscore years of age” Governor William Bradford: 30 One of the original Scrooby ...
John Robinson (1576–1625) was the pastor of the "Pilgrim Fathers" before they left on the Mayflower. He became one of the early leaders of the English Separatists called Brownists , and is regarded (along with Robert Browne and Henry Barrow ) as one of the founders of the Congregational Church .
Here, see all the photos of Jimmy Carter's state funeral: Carter's family, including daughter Amy Carter (4th L), watch as the Carter's casket leaves the Capitol for the state funeral service at ...
9:55 a.m.: Carter’s remains are brought into the cathedral during a brief arrival ceremony. 10 a.m.: National funeral service. 11 a.m.: Departure from the Washington National Cathedral.
Dr. William Herbert Brewster, Sr. (July 2, 1897 – October 15, 1987) was a 20th century Renaissance man born just outside Memphis, Tennessee.He was a Baptist minister by trade as well as a crucial figure in African American history who made a lasting national impact as a poet, playwright, gospel music composer, orator and civil rights leader.