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William Brewster (Mayflowerpassenger)

William Brewster(c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official andMayflowerpassenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader ofPlymouth Colony,by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being aBrownist(orPuritanSeparatist).

William Brewster
Published inThe Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims: And its place in the life of to-day,1911
Bornc.1566/67
Scrooby,Nottinghamshire
Died10 April 1644(1644-04-10)(aged 76–77)
Duxbury,Plymouth Colony
NationalityEnglish subject
Occupation(s)Postmaster and English teacher of Scrooby, preacher of Plymouth
Known forPilgrim
SpouseMary Brewster
Children
Parent(s)William and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster

Life in England

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William Brewster was born in 1566 or 1567,[1]most probably inScrooby,Nottinghamshire,England. He was the son of William Brewster and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster and he had a number of step-brothers and step-sisters, including James, Prudence, Henry, George, and Edward Brewster. His paternal grandparents were William Brewster (1510–1558), and Maud Mann (1513–1558).[2][3]Their other children were: Fear, (vicar) Henry, Prudence and Thomas Brewster.[citation needed]

Beginning in 1580, he studied briefly atPeterhouse, Cambridge,before entering the service ofWilliam Davison,ambassador to the Netherlands, in 1584, giving him opportunity to hear and see more of reformed religion.[4]Brewster was the only Pilgrim with political and diplomatic experience. With his mentor in prison, Brewster had returned home to Scrooby for a time, where he took up his father's former position as postmaster in 1590.[5]The historian Stephen Tomkins argues that William and Mary became puritans in the mid-to-late 1590s, judging by the names of their children, which became much more puritan after Jonathan.[6]It appears their daughter Fear, born about 1606, was named after her great-aunt Fear Brewster, who died unmarried about two years after William's daughter Fear was born.[citation needed]

A first-person historical interpreter portraying Elder William Brewster atPlimoth Plantation

Following the campaign led by Archbishop Bancroft to force puritan ministers out of the Church of England, the Brewsters joined theBrownistchurch led byJohn RobinsonandRichard Clifton,inviting them to meet in their manor house inScrooby.Restrictions and pressures applied by the authorities convinced the congregation of a need to emigrate to the more sympathetic atmosphere ofHolland,and Brewster organized the removal. Leaving England without permission was illegal at the time, so that departure was a complex matter. On its first attempt, in 1607, the group was arrested atScotia Creek,but in 1608, Brewster and others were successful in leaving from theHumber.[5]

Life in the Netherlands

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A rare 17th-century "Brewster Chair,"named after William Brewster[7]

Robinson's church lived for a year in Amsterdam, but in 1609 one of their fellow Brownist churches there led byJohn Smythbecame the firstBaptistchurch. In the controversy that followed, Robinson and Brewster decided to take their church to Leiden.[citation needed]

Brewster lived near St Peter's church (Dutch:Pieterskerk) inLeidenwith his wife and children. He was chosen as assistant and later as an elder to PastorJohn Robinson.He was still an elder when he travelled to Plymouth Colony in 1620.[3]

In Leiden, the group managed to make a living. Brewster had struggled for money in Amsterdam, but in Leiden he taught English touniversitystudents. In 1610–11, Robinson and Brewster acted as mediators when theAncient Church,the oldest Brownist congregation in Amsterdam, split into two factions followingFrancis JohnsonandHenry Ainsworth,but they failed to reconcile them.[8]

Brewster printed and published religious books for sale in England, but they were proscribed there. The press was prolific, printing "seven books against the regime of the Church of England in 1618 alone."[9]In 1618, Brewster's press publishedDe regimine Ecclesianae Scoticanaeby Scottish minister David Calderwood, which was highly critical ofJames VIand his government of the Kirk. They followed it up in April 1619 withPerth Assembly.King James ordered an international manhunt for the writer and printer, but Brewster went underground. According to historian Stephen Tomkins, Brewster handed himself over to the Dutch authorities, who refused to send him to his death in England and so told James that they had arrested the wrong person and let him go.[10]Tomkins judges that Brewster's printing operation "came close to ruining his church's plans for America".[9]

Brewster and Robinson were the prime movers in the decision to sail for America, but once he was in hiding the Separatists looked to their deaconJohn Carverand toRobert Cushmanto carry on negotiations with the appropriate officials in London.[11] Brewster returned to the Leiden congregation in 1620, when it was time for theSpeedwellto sail to England. He had been hiding out in Netherlands and perhaps even England for the last year. At the time of his return, Brewster was the highest-ranking layman of the congregation and was their designated elder inPlymouth Colony.[12]

Brewster joined the first group of Separatists aboard theMayfloweron the voyage to America. He was accompanied by his wife Mary and his sons Love and Wrestling.[13]

Mayflowervoyage

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Signing theMayflower Compact1620,a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1899

Among the people boarding theMayflowerwere four unaccompanied children from Shipton,Shropshire.They were placed asindentured servantswith senior Separatists William Brewster,John CarverandRobert Cushman,on behalf ofSamuel More,husband of the children's mother,Katherine More.The children were placed without their mother's permission after four rancorous years between the Mores over charges of adultery against Katherine and her longtime lover, the children's alleged father. Two children were placed with William and Mary Brewster.[14]

TheMayflowerdeparted Plymouth in England in September 1620. The 100-foot vessel carried 102 passengers and a crew of 30 to 40 in extremely cramped conditions. During the voyage, the ship was buffeted by strong westerly gales. The caulking of its planks was failing to keep out sea water, and the passengers' berths were not always dry. On the journey there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger. After being blown off course by gales, theMayflowermade a landing at Cape Cod. Finding the area near Provincetown occupied by indigenous people, the ship's company decided to continue exploring along the nearby coast. The group arrived in the area near present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 21 December 1620. In the space of several months almost half the passengers perished in the cold, harsh New England winter.[15]

In Plymouth Colony

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Signature of W. Brewster under his motto –Hebel est omnis Adam

When the passengers of theMayflowerlanded atPlymouth Colony,Brewster became the senior elder, and so served as the religious leader of the colony;[citation needed]in the colony, he became aseparatistleader and preacher,[16]and eventually,[when?]as an adviser to GovernorWilliam Bradford.[citation needed]Brewster's son Jonathan joined the family in November 1621, arriving at Plymouth on the shipFortune,and daughters Patience and Fear arrived in July 1623 aboard theAnne.[17]

Brewster Gardens,Plymouth, Massachusetts. The park covers the original garden plot that was granted to William Brewster in 1620.

As the only university-educated member of the colony, Brewster took the part of the colony's religious leader until pastor Ralph Smith arrived in 1629. Thereafter, he continued to preach irregularly until his death in April 1644. "He was tenderhearted and compassionate of such as were in misery," Bradford wrote, "but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and fallen unto want and poverty."[5]

Brewster was granted land among the islands ofBoston Harbor,and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster,Little Brewster,Middle Brewster,andOuter Brewster) now bear his name. In 1632, he received lands in nearby Duxbury and removed from Plymouth to create a farm there.[18]

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the English and the Indians in the region. Brewster's family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, but they lost daughters Fear and Patience, now married toIsaac AllertonandThomas Prence,respectively.[19]

Family and other charges

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Title page of a pamphlet published by William Brewster in Leiden

Marriage

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About 1590 or 1592, William Brewster married a woman named Mary,[3][20]whose surname is unknown, although researchers have proposed Wentworth and Wyrall, along with a handful of children—all of which have been disproved with documentation, as summarized in the 2014 'silver' volume on William Brewster published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. No formal record of the marriage of William Brewster appears in the preserved marriage records of Nottinghamshire Archives.[21]Clandestine marriages and marriages without banns or license before an officiant were not unknown in Nottinghamshire around 1590–96. Thus it is possible one of the following officiated at the marriage about 1590–92 of William Brewster: 1) his uncle Henry Brewster, vicar of Sutton-cum-Lound 1565–94; 2) John Naylor, who was vicar of North Clifton 1588–1626+ and was involved in a clandestine marriage 1 December 1591; and 3) Thomas Hancock, curate of Headon until 1592 when curate of West Retford, and who was presented in 1592 for marrying R. Southworth in Scrooby Chapel without banns or license while curate of Headon. The extensive search for further information on Mary continues, and the number of researchers includes Jeremy Bangs, Director of theAmerican Pilgrim Museum in Leiden,Holland; Caleb Johnson; and Louise Throop.[21]

Children

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Their first surviving child Jonathan was born on 12 August 1593, according to "The Brewster Book" in the handwriting of Jonathan. The first three known children were born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. A more comprehensive list of children is as follows, although there were possibly children born 1591, 1595, 1597, and 1602, who would have possibly died in the plague of the autumn of 1603 and the winter of 1603–4. Others born 1604 and 1608 may also have died young:[citation needed]

  1. Jonathan Brewster(12 August 1593 – 7 August 1659) married Lucretia Oldham of Derby on 10 April 1624 and were the parents of 8 children.
  2. Patience Brewster (c. 1600 – 12 December 1634) married Gov.Thomas Prenceof Lechlade, Gloucestershire, 4 children.
  3. Fear Brewster(c. 1606 – before 1634), apparently named after her great-aunt Fear Brewster. MarriedIsaac Allertonof London, 2 children.
  4. Unnamed child was born, died, and buried in 1609 in Leiden, Holland.
  5. Love Brewsterwas born in Leiden, Holland about 1611 and died between 6 October 1650 and 31 January 1650–1 at Duxbury, in Plymouth Colony. At the age of about 9, he travelled on theMayflowerto Plymouth Colony with his father, mother, and brother Wrestling. There he married Sarah Collier on 15 May 1634. Love and Sarah were the parents of four children.
  6. Wrestling Brewster was born in 1614 in Leiden, Holland, was living in 1627, and died unmarried before the 1644 settlement of his father's estate.[3]

Other charges

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Coat of arms of William Brewster

Three of theMayflowerpilgrims, including William Brewster, took responsibility for children ofSamuel More,who accompanied him and others asindentured servants:

  • Mary More,age 4, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620–1. Her burial place is unknown, but may have been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave, as with so many others buried there that winter. As with her sister Ellen, she is recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth, misidentified after her sister's name as "and a brother (children)," the mistake of calling her "a brother" arising from William Bradford's failing memory years after the event of her death.[citation needed]
  • Richard More,age 6, servant of William Brewster. He resided with the Brewster family until about mid-1627 when his term of indentureship expired. His name appears, at age 14, in a census as a member of the Brewster family, in what was called then "New Plimouth". By 1628, Richard was in the employ of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton, who was engaged in trans-Atlantic trading.

In addition to these,Jasper More,age 7, was assigned to John Carver as a servant, but died of a "common infection" in December 1620 while theMayflowerwas in Cape Cod Harbor (several weeks after Elinor). He was buried ashore in the area of what is now Provincetown, where a memorial plaque bears his and the names of four others "who died at sea while the ship lay at Cape Cod Harbor" in November/December 1620. Finally,Elinor More,age 8, was assigned to Edward Winslow as a servant, but died in November 1620 soon after the arrival of theMayflowerat Cape Cod Harbor. Her burial place is unknown, but may have been ashore on Cape Cod similar to her brother Jasper. With many others who died that winter, her name appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[22][23][24][25][26]

Death

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William Brewster died on 10 April 1644,[1]at Duxbury,Plymouth Colony.[27]He was predeceased by his wife, Mary Brewster, who died in April 1627, aged about sixty.[3][28][self-published source]A cenotaph stone was erected for him and his wife Mary, commemorating his honor; "Elder William Brewster, Patriarch of the Pilgrims and their Ruling Elder 1609–1644".[29]William Brewster was characterized in a 1992 biography as the "father of New England"[30]: 1 and a "sine qua nonof the entire Pilgrim adventure, its backbone, its brain and its conscience. "[30]: 1 Brewster is also the subject of a one-act play,The Separatist,published in 1934, written byHamiltonplaywrightMary P. Hamlin.[31]

Places and things named after Brewster

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Notable descendants

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Descendants of William Brewster

Elder Brewster's descendants number in the tens of thousands today. Notable among them are:

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Further reading

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  • Kirk-Smith, Harold (1992).William Brewster: "The father of New England": his life and times 1567-1644.Boston, Lincolnshire, UK: Richard Kay.ISBN0-902662-93-7.
  • Burt, Daniel S. (2004).The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN9780618168217.[full citation needed]
  • Brewster, Emma C.,The Brewster Genealogy, 1566–1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620(New York: Grafton Press. 1908),Volume 1,Volume 2.
  • Time Inc (29 November 1948).LIFE.p. 129.
  • 'Brewster, William' in theAmerican National Biography(2000) and theOxford Dictionary of National Biography(2004).
  • Mary B. Sherwood,Pilgrim: A Biography of William Brewster(1982)
  • Richard Greaves and Robert Zaller, eds.Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seveneeth Century(1982)
  • Dorothy Brewster,William Brewster of the Mayflower(1970)
  • Merrick, Barbara Lambert, ed. (2003).William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of His Son Love.Mayflower families in progress. Plymouth, MA, US: General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
  • Dowsing, J.Places of the Pilgrim FathersSunrise Press, London.
  • David Beale, "The Mayflower Pilgrims: Roots of the Puritan, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist Heritage" (Greenville, SC: Emerald House Group and BJU Press, 2000).
  • Schmidt, Gary D. (1 June 2004).A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams.University of Virginia Press.ISBN9780813922720.
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