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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 ).
Nevada State Railroad Museum, located at 2180 S. Carson St. 39°08′58″N 119°46′00″W / 39.149444°N 119.766667°W / 39.149444; -119.766667 ( Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive
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; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie: Issue 40 of Sesame booklets; BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008.
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 ...
In Plymouth Colony, Brewster was Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church until his death in 1644 at age 80. [13] [14] [15] Isaac Allerton-A Leiden Separatist and Merchant Adventurer originally from London who boarded the Mayflower with his wife and three children. During his life, he was a ship owner involved in New England and trans-Atlantic ...
Court records from 1607 show that English county officials caught up with the services taking place at Brewster's home and "came after him" and the other Separtists. “Your 13th great-grandfather ...
William Palmer – He was one of the older passengers, born in 1582. He was a nailer by profession. He came with his son William Jr, and received two acres in the 1623 land division for passengers on the Fortune., while his wife Francis received 1 acre as a passenger on the Anne, arrived 1623, under “ffrance wife to Wil Palmer.”.
The core group (roughly 40 percent of the adults and 56 percent of the family groupings) [2] were part of a congregation led in America by William Bradford and William Brewster. They began to feel the pressures of religious persecution while still in the English village of Scrooby , near East Retford , Nottinghamshire.