| Name: |
William * BREWSTER |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Mary * (1569-1627) |
| Birth |
1565 |
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England |
| Graduation |
1584 (age 18-19) |
Cambridge University |
|
England
Attanded Peterhouse College. After graduation, he entered the service of William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth. |
| Immigration |
1620 (age 54-55) |
to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US from England |
| Religion |
|
-1 |
|
One of the original members of the separatist congreation at Scrooby which became the nucleus of the Pilgrim church, he emigrated with them to Holland in 1608 and became elder and teach of their church at Leyden. With no minister at the Plymouth church for most of the years before Brewster's death, the was the lay leader and preached to the congregation regularly; and continued in this manner after he moved to Duxbury. In the course of relating the controversy surrounding John Lyford., Bradford recounts how "our reverend Elder hath labored dilgently in dispensing the Word of God to us, before he came; and since, hath taken equal pains with himself in preaching the same". Included in the inventory of his library were "7 sermons by W B which may have been his notes for some of his own sermons. |
| Occupation |
|
printer |
| Death |
10 Apr 1644 (age 78-79) |
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US2 |
|
estate included 63 Latin books and between 300-400 English books |
| Burial |
|
Burial Hill3 |
|
Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US |
