Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameUNNAMED
Burial10 May 1619, Leiden, Holland2772, p 3
Individual Notes
• Jonathan2 Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, did not marry a first wife in Holland as has been claimed. [MQ 51:161-167; MQ 52:6-16]2709, p 1
Spouses
Birth12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England2619, p 390,2859, p 7,2615, p 1,2853
Death7 Aug 1659, New London, New London, Connecticut2772, p 3 Age: 65
BurialBrewster Cemetery, Preston, New London, Connecticut2618, p 11 & p 14,2615, p 1
Memoat Brewster’s Neck, between Poquetanuck Cove and the Thames River
Occupationribbon maker
ResidenceAmsterdam; Leyden; Plymouth; Duxbury; Preston, CT
FlagsEldest Child, Mayflower Descendant
FatherElder William BREWSTER , MCS-04 (~1567-1644)
MotherMary WYRALL (~1569-1627)
Individual Notes
• Ribbon maker, of Scrooby. Amsterdam, 1608-9; Leyden, 1609-21; married, c. 1615, to ___?___ ___?___, losing wife and child four years later; citizen, Leyden, 1617; married, Plymouth, 1624, to Lucretia Oldham; Purchaser, 1626; removed to Duxbury, c. 1632; agent at trading post on Connecticut River, 1635-36; removed to New London, Conn., 1649, founding trading post by Thames River on present site of Groton; deputy to Conn. General Court, 1650, 1655, 1658; 8 children; 2 oldest sons returned to England, c. 1656, and Brewster seriously contemplated going with them.2684, p 444

• Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, did not marry a first wife in Holland as has been claimed. [MQ 51:161-167; MQ 52:6-16]2709, p 1

• Came in the ship Fortune in November, 1621.2684, p 190,2618, p 11,2615, p 1

• About 1649 he moved to New London, and later to Brewster’s Neck, where, on land purchased of Uncas, the chief of the Mohegans, he established a Trading Post.2863, p 117
Marriageabt 1609, England?2772, p 3
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