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Wise, Discreet, and well spoken--qualified above many. Attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge 1580-1583. Employee of Sir Wm Davison c1583-89, postmater, bailiff, receiver, operated choir alley press 1616, flight to hiding in England 1619, purchaser 1626, undertaker 1627-41; argued against Roger Williams retention as a teacher in 1623.
He lived at great manor house owned by the Archbishopric of Yorke (Doomesday Book, 1066) from 1588-1608, where he organized the Pilgrim Church of which he was a ruling elder, and which he removed to Amsterdam in 1608 , to Leyden at Green Gate in 1609, and to Plymouth in 1620.
The manor, located beside Ryton in the northern tip of Nottinghamshire, halfway between London and the Scottish border on the River Ryton. He left London in 1589, following his many years in the Court of Elizabeth, as Secretary of State, charged with the conduct of foreighn Affiars. After leaving London, Brewster settled down in Scrooby where in 1591, he married Marry. He escaped to Amsterdam in 1608.
He and his wife, Mary, sailed aboard the Speedwell, then transferred to the Mayflower, after the Speedwell's ill-fated return to England. His 3 children: Jonathan, Patience & Fear were left at Scrooby with a relative when Brewster joined the Mayflower Compact. They came later on other ships. Another son, Wrestling Brewster was born at sea or shortly after arr. at Plymouth. He was accompanied by one servant - Richard More (ca.1613-1648) of London, on the Mayflower. When he died in 1643 at Plymouth, Ma, his wife, Mary and daus Fear & Patience and son, Wrestling had prececeased him, [S224]
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_Samuel DODD ________+
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_Abiathar DODD ______|
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