BREWSTER, Elder William Mayflower Passenger 1620

Abt 1566 - 1644  (~ 78 years)

• Name	BREWSTER, Elder William   [1]
  Suffix	Mayflower Passenger 1620
  Birth	Abt 1566	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [1]
  		BREWSTER, William - The Great Migration Begins Volume 1 Page 227
  		BREWSTER, William - The Great Migration Begins Volume 1 Page 228
  		BREWSTER, William - The Great Migration Begins Volume 1 Page 229
  		BREWSTER, William - The Great Migration Begins Volume 1 Page 230
  Gender	Male
  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   [2]
  	http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16195888
  Immigration	11 Nov 1620	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  	On Mayflower
  	Route and Maps of the Voyage from mayflowerhistory.com http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/voyage3.php
  		HISTORY - PASSAGE 1620 - Mayflower Passenger
  Death	10 Apr 1644	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I02390	Schuler
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	BREWSTER, William II,   b. 1534, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 1590, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 56 years)
  Mother	SMYTHE, Mary,   b. 1535, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 1567, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	1560	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England
  Family ID	F01361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BREWSTER, Mary ()   d. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1592	Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England   [3]
  Children	+ 1. BREWSTER, Fear Anne Passenger, 1623   2. BREWSTER, Jonathan,   b. 12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England + 3. BREWSTER, Patience Anne Passenger, 1623,   b. Abt 1603, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 12 Dec 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age ~ 31 years)
  Family ID	F00928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1566 - Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find-A-Grave Memorial # - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16195888 - - Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Marriage - Abt 1592 - Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Immigration - On Mayflower - 11 Nov 1620 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death - 10 Apr 1644 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S00119] Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1630-1633, Vol I-III, The, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011), William Brewster, Volume I, Page 227-230. [S3922814029] FindAGrave.com, (Find A Grave, Inc.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16195888. [S00093] Caleb Johnson, MayflowerHistory.com, (www.mayflowerhistory.com), http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/WilliamBrewster.php, document online.