Love Brewster (c. 1611 – c. 1650) was an early American settler, the son of Elder William Brewster and his wife, Mary Brewster. He traveled with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, on the Mayflower reaching what became the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620. Brewster had two sisters, Patience and Fear, and two brothers, Jonathan and Wrestling, along with an unnamed sister who died young. He was a founder of the town of Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Love Brewster
Born
Love Brewster

abt 1611
Leiden, Dutch Republic
Diedbef 31 January 1650/1
Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
NationalityEnglish Subject
Occupationabout the age of 10 yrs old he volunteered for the militia under Myles Standish an English Guard to protect the Colony.
Known forSignatory of the Mayflower Compact, the first Saints led by Elder William Brewster
SpouseSarah Collier
ChildrenSarah Brewster
Nathaniel Brewster
William Brewster
Wrestling Brewster
Parent(s)William Brewster
Mary Brewster

Biography

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Early life

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Love Brewster[1][2] was born at Leiden, Holland, circa 1611, although no birth records have been found, and died at Duxbury, Massachusetts, sometime between October 6, 1650, and the "last day" of January 1651. This latter date is based on the date of his will and when the inventory of his estate was taken. He was the son of Elder William Brewster, (ca. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and his wife, Mary. At the age of nine, he traveled with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts.[3]

Marriage

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He married Sarah Collier at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on May 15, 1634.[4][5] Sarah was baptized on April 30, 1616, at St Olave's Church, in the parish of Southwark St Olave, an area of south-east London in the London Borough of Southwark, England, and died on April 26, 1691, at Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Jane Clark and William Collier, one of the investors, or Merchant Adventurers, and an initial shareholder in the Plymouth Colony. She was the sister of Mary Collier, the wife of Thomas Prence, a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657–73). Thomas' first wife, Patience Brewster, was a sister of Love's. Sarah, Love's widow, married sometime after September 1, 1656, Richard Parke of Cambridge, Massachusetts,[6] and he died there in 1665. He also gave her a life's interest in his estate, which was later sold to Thomas Parke in 1678.[5][7]

Career

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He was admitted a Freeman of the Colony on March 2, 1635/1636, which granted him the right to own land and to vote. Love and Sarah settled in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, around 1636/7 next door to his father. Love was a successful farmer through his adult life. He served in the Pequot War as a volunteer in 1637, and was a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643. He served on the grand jury from Duxbury in 1648 and was one of the founders of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, although it is believed that he never lived there.

Death

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He died about January 1650/1 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Governor William Bradford reported that "Love lived till this year 1650 and dyed, & left 4 children, now living". He was probably buried in Duxbury, but his place of burial is unknown.[5]

Children

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Love Brewster and Sarah Collier had four children:[2][8]

  • Sarah, born ca. 1635
  • Nathaniel, called "eldest son," born ca. 1637
  • William, born ca. 1645
  • Wrestling, died 1 January 1696/7, married Mary; eight children: 1) Mary (born 10 February 1678/9), 2) Sarah, 3) Abigail, 4) Jonathan, 5) Hannah, 6) Elizabeth, 7) Wrestling (born 4 August 1695), 8) John[9]

Descendants

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Love and Sarah's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of their notable descendants include:

Notes

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  1. ^ Merrick, p. 4
  2. ^ a b Merrick, pp. 14–15
  3. ^ Jones, pp. 26–33
  4. ^ Jones, p. 26
  5. ^ a b c Merrick, p. 14
  6. ^ Parks, pp. 25–30
  7. ^ Jones, p. 27
  8. ^ Jones, pp. 30–33
  9. ^ 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, Emma C Brewster Jones, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908
  10. ^ a b c d Jones, pp. 625–26
  11. ^ Cottrell, Robert C. (2010). "Roger Baldwin: Founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1884–1981". Harvard Square Library. Retrieved 2010-07-18.
  12. ^ Cottrell, pp. 1–12
  13. ^ Morgan, pp. 841–846
  14. ^ Jones, p. 373
  15. ^ Jones, p. 781
  16. ^ Jones, p. 782
  17. ^ Wright, p. 34
  18. ^ a b Jones, pp. 351–53
  19. ^ Osborn, pp. 388–391
  20. ^ Jones, p. 779
  21. ^ Jones, p. 780
  22. ^ Jones, pp. 1064–65
  23. ^ Jones, p. 627
  24. ^ Jones, p. 189
  25. ^ Jones, p. 86
  26. ^ Schmidt, p. 9
  27. ^ Burt, p. 71
  28. ^ Jones, pp. 143–44
  29. ^ Jones, p. 280
  30. ^ Ralph Owen Brewster, William Edmund Brewster, Abiatha, Morgan, William, Icabod, William, William, Love, William, of the Mayflower.
  31. ^ a b c d Roberts, Gary Boyd (2000). "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon". NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-06-22. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
  32. ^ a b c Lisle, pp. 1–5
  33. ^ Jones, p. 890
  34. ^ Doris Batcheller Humphrey, Horace Buckingham Humphrey, Simon James Humphrey, Rebecca Brewster Humphrey, Simon Brewster Jr., Simon Brewster Sr., Benjamin, William, Love, William of the Mayflower.
  35. ^ Jones, p. 274
  36. ^ a b Jones, pp. 620–21
  37. ^ Longfellow, p. 1
  38. ^ "Wadsworth Longfellow Genealogy". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Website. Maine Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  39. ^ "Yale Divinity School-News: Prof. Gaylord Noyce Dies at 83" Archived 2009-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, Yale Divinity School.
  40. ^ "Gaylord Brewster Noyce". Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Web site. The Civil Rights Digital Library. 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  41. ^ Jones, pp. 1037–39
  42. ^ Blum, Betty J. (2007). "Matthew L. Rockwell (1915–1988)". Chicago Architects Oral History Project. The Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2010-03-09.

References

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  • Burt, Daniel S. The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7
  • Cottrell, Robert C. Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union New York: Columbia University Press, 2000 ISBN 0231119720
  • Jones, Emma C. Brewster. 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.
  • Lisle, Laurie. Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8195-6886-4
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie: Issue 40 of Sesame booklets; BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008. ISBN 0-554-47602-9.
  • Merrick, Barbara Lambert. William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, Revised 3rd Edition, Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000.
  • Merrick, Barbara Lambert. William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Love, Barbara Lambert Merrick, compiler. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003.
  • Morgan, M.H. Daedalus: proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 41 California: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1906.
  • Osborn, Norris Galpin. Men of mark in Connecticut: ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans, Volume 4. New York: W.R. Goodspeed, 1908.
  • Parks, Frank Sylvester. Genealogy of the Parke families of Massachusetts: including Richard Parke, of Cambridge, William Park, of Groton, and others. Higginson Book Co., 1909.
  • Schmidt, Gary D. A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams. University of Virginia Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8139-2272-0
  • Wright, R.W. Biographical record: Yale University, Class of 1842. R.W. Wright, compiler. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1878.

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