2. | Reverend Elder William Brewster was born on 24 Jan 1566 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom (son of William Brewster, II,of Scrooby and Mary Smythe); died on 10 Apr 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Other Events and Attributes:
- Education: University of Cambridge, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; Hhe studied briefly at Cambridge, the only Pilgrim Father to have some university training.
- Occupation: Printer
- Occupation: Reverend Elder of the Pilgrim's church at Plymouth
- Immigration Information: Came over on the Mayflower
- Stories and Notes: Mayflower Passenger
- Stories and Notes: 12 Jun 1609, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; See Notes
Notes:
Stories and Notes:
Came over on the Mayflower - Published many Religious pamplets which made him a fugitive from the King of England. Was the Oldest Mayflower Passenger to be at the First Thanksgiving, he was in his Fifies.
Was a leader of the PILGRIMS, who established Plymouth Colony.
A member of the local gentry in Scrooby, Yorkshire, he helped organize a separatist religious congregation in 1606 and financed its move to Holland in 1608. His influence was instrumental in winning the approval of the Virginia Company for the p roposal to resettle the congregation in America, and he was one of the few original Scrooby separatists who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.
As the church's ruling elder in Leyden and then in Plymouth, Brewster shared with William Bradford and Edward Winslow in the leadership of the Pilgrim enterprise
Stories and Notes:
A Leyden record shows that William Brewster and Ann Peck gave power of attorney to Thomas Simkinson, merchant of Hull. Presumably Thomas Simkinson has some relation to Brewster's mother's first husband John Simkins
William married Mary Wentworth in 1592 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth) was born in 1565 in Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom; died on 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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