Mercy married FREEMAN, Major John Abigail Passenger, 1635 on 13 Feb 1649/50 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. John (son of FREEMAN, Edmond Abigail Passenger, 1635 and HODSOLL, Bennett) was christened on 28 Jan 1626/7 in Billingshurst, Horsham, West Sussex, England; died on 28 Oct 1719 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. FREEMAN, Hannah was born in 1664; died in 1743.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 9 Nov 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Arrived on The Fortune The ship Fortune arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few weeks after the First Thanksgiving. This passenger list is based on the 1623 Division of Land the passenger list compiled by Charles Edward Banks in Planters of the Commonwealth, by material published occasionally by Robert S. Wakefield in the Mayflower Quarterly, and by the information found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and Its People, 1620-1691.
• Historical Figure: Between 1634-1635, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; 4th Governor of Plymouth Bay Colony
• Historical Figure: Between 1638-1639, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; 8th Governor of Plymouth Bay Colony
• Find-A-Grave Memorial #: 1673, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7497193
• Historical Figure: Between 1657-1673, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; 12th Governor of Plymouth Bay Colony

Thomas married BREWSTER, Patience Anne Passenger, 1623 on 05 Aug 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Patience (daughter of BREWSTER, Elder William Mayflower Passenger 1620 and BREWSTER, Mary ()) was born about 1603 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 12 Dec 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Anne & Little James Passenger
• Find-A-Grave Memorial #: 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7482764

Other Events and Attributes:

• Biography/Personal History: William Brewster was born about 1566, the son of William Brewster. He was educated in both Greek and Latin and spent some time at Cambridge University, although he never completed a full degree. He went into the service of William Davison, then Secretary of State, while his father back home maintained a position as the postmaster of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. Under Davison, Brewster first traveled to the Netherlands. After Davison's departure as Secretary of State, Brewster worked himself into his father's postmaster duties and maintained Scrooby Manor. Brewster was instrumental in establishing the small Separatist church with Richard Clyfton, and they often held their meetings in the Manor house. Brewster and the others were eventually found and forced out, and fleeing prosecution and persecution they headed to Amsterdam in 1608, and moving to Leiden, Holland in 1609. Brewster became the church's Elder, responsible for seeing that the congregation's members carried themselves properly, both helping and admonishing them when necessary. In Leiden, Brewster working with Thomas Brewer became working a printing press and publishing religious books and pamphlets which were then illegally conveyed into England. Brewster also employed himself teaching University of Leiden students English. By 1618, the English authorities were onto him and his printing press, and had the Dutch authorities in pursuit of him. Thomas Brewer was arrested and held in the University of Leiden's prison, but Brewster managed to evade the authorities and went into hiding for a couple years. When the Leiden church congregation decided to send the first wave to set up and establish a colony that everyone could eventually move to, their pastor John Robinson decided to remain behind in Leiden with the majority of the congregation, intending to come later. The smaller group that went on the Mayflower desired the next highest ranking church official, Elder Brewster, go with them; so he agreed. He brought his wife Mary and two youngest children, Love and Wrestling, on the Mayflower with him. Brewster continued his work as Church Elder throughout his life at Plymouth Colony. His wife Mary died in 1627, and he never remarried. He lived to be nearly 80 years old, dying in 1644. Shortly after he died, William Bradford wrote a short but concise biography of Brewster, just a couple pages, in his history Of Plymouth Plantation. - http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/WilliamBrewster.php
• Find-A-Grave Memorial #: Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16195888
• Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; On Mayflower

Notes:

Immigration:
Route and Maps of the Voyage from mayflowerhistory.com
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/voyage3.php

Elder married BREWSTER, Mary () about 1592 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. Mary died on 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married SMYTHE, Mary in 1560 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. Mary (daughter of SMYTHE, Thomas) was born in 1535 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died in 1567 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]