Reverend Elder William Brewster
1566 - 1644 (78 years)
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Name William Brewster Prefix Reverend Elder Relationship 
with Kathleen Alice Jones-Rouse Birth 24 Jan 1566 Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom 
[1] Gender Male 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 - 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 12 Jun 1609 Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands [2] See 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
Death 10 Apr 1644 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [3, 4] Burial Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Person ID I3911 Enchanted Family Tree Last Modified 11 Sep 2020
Father William Brewster, II,of Scrooby, b. 1535, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom d. 10 Aug 1608, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom (Age 73 years) Mother Mary Smythe, b. 1534, Stainford, Hatfield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. 1567, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom (Age 33 years) Marriage 1560 Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom Family ID F2224 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Wentworth, b. 1565, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom d. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 62 years) Marriage 1592 Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom Children + 1. Jonathan Brewster, b. 12 Aug 1593, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom d. 7 Aug 1659, New London, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 65 years)+ 2. Patience Brewster, b. 1600, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom d. 12 Dec 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 34 years)+ 3. Fear Brewster, b. 1606, Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom d. 12 Dec 1634 (Age 28 years)4. A. Child Brewster, b. 1609, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 1609, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (Age 0 years)+ 5. Love Brewster, b. 1611, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 6 Oct 1650 (Age 39 years)6. Wrestling Brewster, b. 1614, Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 1644 (Age 30 years)Family ID F2163 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Mar 2012
- 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.
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Birth - 24 Jan 1566 - Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom 
Education - Hhe studied briefly at Cambridge, the only Pilgrim Father to have some university training. - - University of Cambridge, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Marriage - 1592 - Scrooby, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom 
Stories and Notes - See Notes - 12 Jun 1609 - Leiden, , Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 
Death - 10 Apr 1644 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 
Burial - - Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Wiliam Brewster
Headstones 
Burial Hill
William Brewster Headstone
Histories 
Passenger List for the Mayflower 
Plymouth Residents - 1627 Division of Cattle
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Sources - [S167] Barbara Lambert Merrick, William Brewster Of The Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants).
- [S43] - City, County, State, or Church Records, Leyden, England Records (Reliability: 3).
- [S80] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston).
- [S168] Brewster, The Brewster Book, (Picture of the Book: Book. copies of which were in 1896 housed at the Boston Public Library.).
William Brewster dyed at Plymouth in New England the 10th of April l 1644
- [S167] Barbara Lambert Merrick, William Brewster Of The Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants).