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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.
His mother Fear Brewster, was the elder Allerton's second wife, and the daughter of Elder William Brewster. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] the colony's spiritual and political leader, [ 9 ] who had also sailed aboard the Mayflower as well as signed the Mayflower Compact .
Anne was born at the family seat, Shirley Plantation in Charles City County, on March 26, 1773.A member of the planter class, she was born into a patrician family of tidewater Virginia and was the daughter of Charles Carter (1732–1806), the fifth-generation owner of Shirley Plantation, and Anne Butler (née Moore) Carter (1750–1809).
Crackston's daughter Anna (Anne) married Thomas Smith in Leiden on December 12, 1618, to which he is also recorded as being a witness. At her wedding she was accompanied by her friend Patience Brewster, later to be a Mayflower passenger in the family of her father, Elder William Brewster. Patience was to die of a fever In Plymouth in 1634 as ...
Alongside her message, Brewster, who played Paul’s love interest Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise, shared a couple of photos of herself and the star. Diesel, 57, also penned a tribute ...
Anne Carter Lee (June 18, 1839 – October 20, 1862) was the fourth child and second daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She grew up at Arlington House on her family's plantation.
Aug. 18, 1927: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith is born at her family home in Plains, Georgia. Late August 1927: “Miss Lillian” Carter, a neighbor and nurse who delivered Rosalynn, brings her son, Jimmy ...