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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).
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.
Edward J. Davies, "The Marriage of Richard 1 Warren of the Mayflower", The American Genealogist, 78 (2003), 81–86. Jones, Emma C. Brewster. 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. New York: Grafton Press. 1908
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 ...
Perth Assembly was a controversial book published by the Pilgrims in Leiden in 1619.. In the same year, before they departed on the Mayflower for Massachusetts; the book was smuggled into Scotland in wine vats. [1]
In 1830, the Brewster family of Duxbury donated Elder Brewster's original chair to Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, where it remains today. His chair was created in New England between 1630 and 1660 of American white ash .
William Johnson: Labourer George Kendall: Councillor and Captain: 1607–12–01 Execution by firing squad for "mutiny" [15] Ellis Kingston: Gentleman E. Kiniston or Kinnistone 1607–09–18 "Starved to death with cold" [16] John Laydon: Carpenter and Labourer Leyden arrived on the Susan Constant [17] William Laxon: Carpenter Laxton, W ...
William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (c. 1510 – 12 January 1573) was an English diplomat and military leader. He served four monarchs, Henry VIII , Edward VI , Mary I and Elizabeth I , in various official capacities, most notably on diplomatic missions and as Lord Admiral and Lord Chamberlain of the Household .