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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 ).
She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, a daughter of Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower. John and Mercy (Prence) Freeman are buried in the Cove Burying Ground in Eastham.
Fictional drawing of William Brewster (c.1566-1644), one of the leaders of the Pilgrims who helped found the Plymouth Colony in 1620. In 1620, a group of Separatists known as the Pilgrims settled in New England and established the Plymouth Colony.
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 ...
Other notable residents of Duxbury included John Alden, William Brewster, and Governor Thomas Prence. [54]: 280 Marshfield, settled 1632, incorporated 1640. Home to Governor Edward Winslow. Also home to Josiah Winslow, who was governor of the colony during King Philip's War, and to Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England.
Mercy Hazard was also a descendant of Governor Thomas Prence (1599–1673), a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, who was a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth; and a descendant of two Mayflower passengers, both of whom were signers of the Mayflower Compact, Elder William Brewster (c ...
The Hall was built to a conventional Elizabethan E-plan. It passed down in the Brewster family from Humphrey to his son Francis (1566-1644) and from Francis to his son Robert Brewster (1599-1633), a Parliamentary commissioner during the Civil War and MP for both Dunwich and Suffolk.
However, young Isaac did not initially join him. Instead he was raised by his maternal grandfather William Brewster, and eventually joined the family of his uncle Love Brewster. Meanwhile, by 1644, when elder Brewster died, the elder Isaac Allerton had again remarried, to his third wife, Joanna Swinnerton. [12]