Name | William Brewster | |
Title | Gov. | |
Prefix | Elder | |
Born | Abt 1566 | Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England [2] |
Gender | Male | |
Education | Bef 1584 | Peterhouse College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
Occupation | Between 1590 and 1607 | Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England |
Postmaster | ||
History | Abt 1602 | Scrooby Manor, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England |
From about 1602, Scrooby Manor, William Brewster's home, became a meeting place for the dissenting Puritans. In 1606, they formed the Separatist Church of Scrooby. Later meeting at The Old Hall, Gainsborough with John Smyth and John Robinson | ||
The Mayflower Trail, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England Courtesy St. Wilfrid Church, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England |
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Emigration | 1607 | Scotia Creek, Fishtoft, Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
Leaving England without permission was illegal, on its first attempt to emigrate to Holland, William's group were arrested. | ||
Immigration | 1608 | Leiden, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands |
On their second attempt William's group sailed via The Humber to The Netherlands | ||
History | 11 Nov 1620 | Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA |
The Mayflower left from Plymouth, Devon, England on 6 Sep 1620 (with William Brewster who had travelled from Leiden, The Netherlands to join the ship) and after a gruelling 66-day journey marked by disease, which claimed two lives, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod (Provincetown Harbor) on Sunday 11 Nov 1620 (observing the Sabbath no one left the ship on that day). They wintered on board ship and all surviving passengers moved ashore at Plymouth Rock, Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA between 21/28 Mar 1621. | ||
Immigration | Mar 1621 | Plymouth Rock, Cole's Hill, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA |
Only a minority of the congregation (thirty-five members including William Bradford), under William Brewster, sailed on the Mayflower from England to America. They were joined by sixty-six people from Southampton and London who had little or no religious motivation. Brewster was granted land amongst the islands of Boston Harbor, and four of the outer islands (Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster and Outer Brewster) now bear his name | ||
Occupation | Governor of Plymouth Colony. [3] | |
Died | 10 Apr 1644 | Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA [2] |
Buried | Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA | |
Person ID | I1750148926 | Red1st |
Last Modified | 21 Feb 2014 |
Father | William Brewster, b. Bef 1551, England , d. 1590 (Age ~ 39 years) | |
Mother | Mary Smyth, b. Bef 1551, England | |
Family ID | F672781823 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | Mary Wentworth, b. Abt 1569, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England , d. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA (Age ~ 58 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Family ID | F673054281 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Photos | Elder William Brewster |
Documents | A reputed Record of the Baptist Church of Epworth, Crowle and West Butterwick for 1599 to 1620 Page 1 Probably an early 20th century transcription of folk records speculated to have been written a few years after the events after 1626. Drag and drop this image to your desktop to magnify in your image viewer | |
A reputed Record of the Baptist Church of Epworth, Crowle and West Butterwick for 1599 to 1620 Page 2 Probably an early 20th century transcription of folk records speculated to have been written a few years after the events after 1626. Drag and drop this image to your desktop to magnify in your image viewer | ||
Axholme Baptist Records 1599-1620 An analysis by Bill Goldthorp |
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