Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameJonathan BREWSTER 
Memoon the Fortune
Removalabt 1649, New London, New London, Connecticut74 Age: 55
Death7 Aug 1659, New London, New London, Connecticut661 Age: 65
Memoat Brewster’s Neck, between Poquetanuck Cove and the Thames River
Occupationribbon maker
ResidenceAmsterdam; Leyden; Plymouth; Duxbury; Preston, CT
FlagsEldest Child, Mayflower Descendant
FatherElder William BREWSTER , MCS-04 (~1567-1644)
MotherMary WYRALL (~1569-1627)
Individual Notes
• Ribbon maker, of Scrooby. Amsterdam, 1608-9; Leyden, 1609-21; married, c. 1615, to ___?___ ___?___, losing wife and child four years later; citizen, Leyden, 1617; married, Plymouth, 1624, to Lucretia Oldham; Purchaser, 1626; removed to Duxbury, c. 1632; agent at trading post on Connecticut River, 1635-36; removed to New London, Conn., 1649, founding trading post by Thames River on present site of Groton; deputy to Conn. General Court, 1650, 1655, 1658; 8 children; 2 oldest sons returned to England, c. 1656, and Brewster seriously contemplated going with them.47
• Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, did not marry a first wife in Holland as has been claimed. [MQ 51:161-167; MQ 52:6-16]2592
• Came in the ship Fortune in November, 1621.47,627,628
• About 1649 he moved to New London, and later to Brewster’s Neck, where, on land purchased of Uncas, the chief of the Mohegans, he established a Trading Post.74
• Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, did not marry a first wife in Holland as has been claimed. [MQ 51:161-167; MQ 52:6-16]2592
• Came in the ship Fortune in November, 1621.47,627,628
• About 1649 he moved to New London, and later to Brewster’s Neck, where, on land purchased of Uncas, the chief of the Mohegans, he established a Trading Post.74
Spouses
Individual Notes
• Jonathan2 Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, did not marry a first wife in Holland as has been claimed. [MQ 51:161-167; MQ 52:6-16]2592
Marriageabt 1609, England?661
Individual Notes
• The provost of Derby Cathedral, Mr. R. A. Beddoes, has just furnished a baptismal certificate as follows:
“Baptism solemnized in the Parish of All Saints in the Diocese of Derby and County of Derby in the year 1600, Lucretia, daughter of William Ouldham, baptised fourteenth January 1600 by Edward Bennett (Minister).”1256
• John Oldham, thought to be from Lancashire, with his wife and sister Lucretia who later married a son of Elder Brewster, came to Plimoth on the Anne in 1623 with a group of followers “on their particular,” that is to say, they did not come for religious reasons. They were sent by a faction of the Merchant Investors who were opposed to the Separatist teachings of John Robinson's flock and hoped to disrupt the Pilgrim's religion and lead them to become Puritans (Bradford's History “Of Plimouth Plantation,” From The Original Manuscript [printed by order of the General Court of the Commonwealth, Boston, 1898].1257
“Baptism solemnized in the Parish of All Saints in the Diocese of Derby and County of Derby in the year 1600, Lucretia, daughter of William Ouldham, baptised fourteenth January 1600 by Edward Bennett (Minister).”1256
• John Oldham, thought to be from Lancashire, with his wife and sister Lucretia who later married a son of Elder Brewster, came to Plimoth on the Anne in 1623 with a group of followers “on their particular,” that is to say, they did not come for religious reasons. They were sent by a faction of the Merchant Investors who were opposed to the Separatist teachings of John Robinson's flock and hoped to disrupt the Pilgrim's religion and lead them to become Puritans (Bradford's History “Of Plimouth Plantation,” From The Original Manuscript [printed by order of the General Court of the Commonwealth, Boston, 1898].1257