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  • Name: Jonathan BREWSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 12 Aug 1593 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England b
  • Death: 7 Aug 1659 in Preston, Massachusetts d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William BREWSTER Birth: Abt 1567 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Death: 10 Apr 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
  • Mother:
  • Mary WENTWORTH Birth: 1569 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Death: 17 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. William BREWSTER Birth: Holland
  2. Mary BREWSTER

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  2. Walters, Patricia, WALTERS, HERRMANN, and other related families, notebooks of 23 volumes. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1989. Vol 15 (AUSTIN/HARMON), Film#1597566#4. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103]
eldest son [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan],
place:
[Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan, WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103],
parents:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103],
father:
[Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103]
before Sep 1659 [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan],
place:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103]
Sources with Information about marriage to Lucretia OLDHAM
date:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p103],
names:
Jonathan BREWSTER & Lucretia ___ [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan],
child:
[Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan]
Sources with Information about marriage to Betje RABNITZ
date:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p111]
Research Notes:
stayed in Holland when parents emigrated to New England on Mayflower [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan]

followed parents to New England in "Fortune" to Plymouth Nov 1621 [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan, WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p111]

about 1630 moved to Duxbury, and to New London CT about 1649, to a part established as Norwich, his farm lying in both towns [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p111]

Jun 1636: in command of the Plymouth trading co on Connecticut River, and gave notice to John Winthrop of the evil designs of the Pequots [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan]

1639: rep of Duxbury to the earliest assembly of deputies in the colonies [Ref: Sav-age BREWSTER Jonathan]

a letter Sep 1 1656 to his sister-in-law Sarah, widow of Love Brewster, states he and his family "resolved for Old England" the following year. It is possible two sons, William and Jonathan, returned to New England, but the rest remained [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS BREWSTER-p112]



Pedigree of Jonathan BREWSTER
          /-----William BREWSTER
 /-----William BREWSTER
Jonathan BREWSTER
|                                                               /-----Sir William De WENTWORTH
|                                                      /-----William De WENTWORTH
|                                                     |         \-----Johanna FLEMING
|                                             /-----William WENTWORTH
|                                            |        |         /-----William SHEFFIELD
|                                            |         \-----Lucy SHEFFIELD
|                                            |                  \-----Isabella (SHEFFIELD)
|                                    /-----Sir Thomas WENTWORTH
|                                   |        |         /-----Sir Thomas RERESBY
|                                   |         \-----Isabella RERESBY
|                           /-----William WENTWORTH
|                          |        |                           /-----Sir Richard REDMAYNE
|                          |        |                  /-----Sir Mathew REDMAN, Gov Of Berwick
|                          |        |                 |         \-----Elizabeth ALDEBURGH
|                          |        |         /-----Sir Richard REDMAYNE
|                          |        |        |         \-----Lucy
|                          |         \-----Joan REDMAYNE
|                          |                 |         /-----Thomas MIDDLETON
|                          |                  \-----Margaret MIDDLETON
|                  /-----Sir Thomas WENTWORTH
|                 |        |                                    /-----Sir John FITZ WILLIAM
|                 |        |                           /-----Edmund FITZWILLIAM
|                 |        |                          |         \-----Elizabeth CLINTON
|                 |        |                  /-----Edmund FITZWILLIAM
|                 |        |                 |        |         /-----John De HOTHAM
|                 |        |                 |         \-----Maud HOTHAM
|                 |        |                 |                  \-----Winifred BRUS
|                 |        |         /-----Sir Richard FITZWILLIAM
|                 |        |        |        |                  /-----Sir Robert De CLIFTON
|                 |        |        |        |         /-----Sir John De CLIFTON
|                 |        |        |        |        |         \-----Agnes De GREY
|                 |        |        |         \-----Catherine CLIFTON
|                 |        |        |                 |         /-----Sir John De CRESSY
|                 |        |        |                  \-----Katherine CRESSY
|                 |        |        |                           \-----Agnes
|                 |         \-----Isabel FITZWILLIAM
|                 |                 |                           /-----William CLARELL, Of Aldwark
|                 |                 |                  /-----Sir Thomas CLARELL, Of Aldwark, Lord Of Penistone
|                 |                 |                 |         \-----Elizabeth REYGATE
|                 |                 |         /-----Thomas CLARELL
|                 |                 |        |        |         /-----Sir Nicholas MONTGOMERY
|                 |                 |        |         \-----Matilda MONTGOMERY
|                 |                 |        |                  \-----Margaret FOLJAMBE
|                 |                  \-----Elizabeth CLARELL
|                 |                          |                  /-----Sir Henry Le SCROPE, Lord Scrope Of Masham
|                 |                          |         /-----Sir John SCROPE
|                 |                          |        |         \-----Joan
|                 |                           \-----Elizabeth SCROPE
|                 |                                   |         /-----David STRATHBOGIE, Earl Of Atholl, Lord Strath
|                 |                                    \-----Elizabeth STRATHBOGIE
|                 |                                             \-----Elizabeth DeFERRERS
|         /-----Thomas WENTWORTH
|        |        |         /-----Sir Richard WOODRUFFE
|        |         \-----Beatrix WOODRUFFE
|        |                 |                                    /-----Thomas FITZWILLIAM
|        |                 |                           /-----Thomas FITZ WILLIAM
|        |                 |                          |         \-----Elizabeth MABLETHORPE
|        |                 |                  /-----Thomas FITZ WILLIAM
|        |                 |                 |        |         /-----William STAYNE
|        |                 |                 |         \-----Joan STAYNE
|        |                 |         /-----Sir Thomas FITZWILLIAM
|        |                 |        |        |         /-----John ASKE
|        |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth ASKE
|        |                 |        |                 |         /-----Sir John De SHELVESTRODE
|        |                 |        |                  \-----Joan SHELVESTRODE
|        |                 |        |                           \-----Margaret
|        |                  \-----Beatrix FITZ WILLIAM
|        |                          |                           /-----Sir Thomas DYMOKE, K.B.
|        |                          |                  /-----Sir Phillip DYMOKE
|        |                          |                 |         \-----Elizabeth HEBDON
|        |                          |         /-----Sir Thomas DYMOKE
|        |                          |        |        |         /-----Robert CONYERS
|        |                          |        |         \-----Johanna CONYERS
|        |                          |        |                  \-----Isabel PERT
|        |                           \-----Margaret DYMOKE
|        |                                   |                  /-----Eudo De WELLES
|        |                                   |         /-----Sir Lionel De WELLES, K.G., Lord Welles
|        |                                   |        |         \-----Maud De GREYSTOKE
|        |                                    \-----Margaret WELLES
|        |                                            |         /-----Robert De WATERTON
|        |                                             \-----Joan De WATERTON
|        |                                                      \-----Cecily FLEMING
 \-----Mary WENTWORTH
         |                                                      /-----William GASCOIGNE
         |                                             /-----Nicholas GASCOIGNE
         |                                            |         \-----Agnes FRANKE
         |                                    /-----John GASCOIGNE
         |                                   |        |         /-----(Unk) CLIDEROW
         |                                   |         \-----Mary CLIDEROW
         |                                   |                  \-----Isabel GRAS
         |                           /-----William GASCOIGNE
         |                          |        |                  /-----John De HETON
         |                          |        |         /-----William HETON
         |                          |        |        |         \-----Margery De HOPTON
         |                          |         \-----Isabel HETON
         |                          |                  \-----Elizabeth
         |                  /-----William GASCOIGNE
         |                 |        |         /-----Sir William BECKWITH
         |                 |         \-----Joanetta BECKWITH
         |                 |                 |         /-----Sir William PLUMPTON
         |                 |                  \-----Elizabeth PLUMPTON
         |         /-----John GASCOIGNE
         |        |        |         /-----Richard KIGHLEY
         |        |         \-----Margaret KIGHLEY
          \-----Grace GASCOIGNE
                  |                                             /-----Sir William VAVASOUR, Lord Vavasour
                  |                                    /-----Sir Henry VAVASOUR, Lord Vavasour
                  |                                   |         \-----Elizabeth De CRESSY
                  |                           /-----Henry VAVASOUR, Lord Vavasour
                  |                          |        |         /-----Sir William De SKIPWITH
                  |                          |         \-----Margaret SKIPWITH
                  |                          |                  \-----Alice De HILTOFT
                  |                  /-----Sir Henry VAVASOUR, Lord Vavasour
                  |                 |        |         /-----Sir John LANGTON
                  |                 |         \-----Joan LANGTON
                  |         /-----John VAVASOUR
                  |        |        |                           /-----Sir William GASCOIGNE
                  |        |        |                  /-----Sir William GASCOIGNE
                  |        |        |                 |         \-----Elizabeth MOWBRAY
                  |        |        |         /-----Sir William GASCOIGNE
                  |        |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Henry WYMAN
                  |        |        |        |         \-----Joan WYMAN
                  |        |        |        |                  \-----Agnes De BARDEN
                  |        |         \-----Joan GASCOIGNE
                  |        |                 |                  /-----William CLARELL, Of Aldwark
                  |        |                 |         /-----Sir Thomas CLARELL, Of Aldwark, Lord Of Penistone
                  |        |                 |        |         \-----Elizabeth REYGATE
                  |        |                  \-----Margaret CLARELL
                  |        |                          |         /-----Sir Nicholas MONTGOMERY
                  |        |                           \-----Matilda MONTGOMERY
                  |        |                                    \-----Margaret FOLJAMBE
                   \-----Anne VAVASOUR
                            \-----Cecily LANGDALE



Descendants of Jonathan BREWSTER
1. Jonathan BREWSTER m1. Lucretia OLDHAM m2. Betje RABNITZ
m. Lucretia OLDHAM
m. Betje RABNITZ