Individuals from Chrisman Pedigree, page 35

Love Brewster

Notes:

!On the Mayflower, age abt. 7.
!Death: The exact date of his death is not known, but it is certainly between the date of his will (dated 11 Oct 1650) and the date his will was probated (10 Feb 1651). Given the way pilgrims did things, his death almost certainly occurred a few days before 10 Feb 1651, or at the earliest, in late january.
!Birth: From Robert M. Bartlett, "The Faith of the Pilgrims: An American Heritage", United Church Press, NY & Philadelphia, 1978, p. 159.
!Marriage: MD 13:83

m: Sarah Collier (-26 APR 1691)

Children:

Sarah Collier

Notes:

See The Mayflower Descendant 3:192. !Marriage (Love Brewster): MD 13:83

m: Love Brewster ( 1611-BEF 10 FEB 1651)

Children:

m: Richard Parke (- 1665)

Robert Bartlett

Notes:

!Occupation: Cooper !Immigrated to Plymouth in the Anne in 1623. (Beware: Another Robert Bartlett immigrated in the ship Lyon in 1632. That one married an Anna (---) and settled in Cambridge, Mass.)
From 1633, juryman and town officer. He died in 1676 and bequeathed his entire estate to his wife. He was in on the first purchase of Dartmouth.
The earliest reference showing his marriage to Mary Warren was in a Court Order dated 7/17 Mar 1636/7, reading as follows: "It is agreed upon by the consent of the whole Court that Elizabeth Warren Widdow the relict of mr. Richard Warren Deceased ...her sonnes in law Richard Church Robert Bartlett and Thomas Little in marriage wth their wives her daughters" [Court Orders, I:107, MD 3:48].
The marriage did not occur until after 1 Jun 1627 (Gregorian=new style). Since his oldest son, Benjamin, was admitted a freeman on 16 June 1654, he was thus born before 16 June 1633. Assuming his daughter Rebecca was 16 years old when married on 30 Dec 1649, she would have been born before 1633. Thus, it is likely that they were married as early as 1629. [MD 3:106]
Sources:
"The Pioneers of Massachusetts", by Charles Henry Pope: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.; 1969.
Bartlett, Robert Merrill, "Pilgrim Robert Bartlett (1603-1676) and some of his descendants" Published by the Society of the Descendants of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, Inc., Plymouth Mass., Leyden Press, 1966. Address: Dr. Robert M. Bartlett, 1660 Bartlett House, Brook Road, Plymouth, Mass.
"Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England showing 3 generations of those who come before May 1692 on the basis of Farmer's Register." by James Savage. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.; 1969.
Bowman, George Ernest, "Richard Warren and His Descendants, compiled from original sources." In The Mayflower Descendant, Vol III, 1901, pg.45-51, pg. 105-117.
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The database of Lori Steadman on the web (March 1996) gives a birthdate of 27 Apr 1603. Source currently unknown to me.

m: Mary Warren (ABT 1610-27 MAR 1683)

Children:

Mary Warren

Notes:

Came to America in The Anne in 1623 with her mother.
!Death date: From "Mayflower Increasings (for Three Generations)", 1989, by Susan E. Roser.
!Death: Plymouth Church Records Vol. 1, Part 5, Page 3, in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 22, page 250: "1683: ... Members dyed: Mary Bartlett, widow, March 27: in her 73d yeare"
!Birth: Shown no the division of cattle to be the eldest dau., thus born before 1612. [MD 3:105, MD 2:178]. She was almost certainly not born before 1606.

m: Robert Bartlett ( 1603-29 OCT 1676)

Children:

Richard Warren

Notes:

!On the Mayflower., over 45, married at the time. !Occupation: Farmer. !Source: "The May-Flower & Her Log" (a book).
Information from Seymour Paul (originally from Don Abbott, Southern California Genealogical Society): Richard Warren of London, England; merchant, "a useful instrument". Member of exploration parties along Cape Cod; Probably Assistant Governor 1624-8. The 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Married Elizabeth Jouett Marsh in 1605 in London, England. Born 1580 to Christopher Warren and Alice Webb. Elizabeth Jouett Marsh was born 1583 and died 1673.
An article, "Richard Warren and his Descendants" appearing in MD 3:45-51 covers all known records of him and his wife Elizabeth. Also a booklet published by the Mayflower Society covers him and his descendants to 4 generations.
Little is known about Richard Warren, owing most probably to his death so shortly after settling in Plymouth. His wife Elizabeth was quite prominent in the colony afterwards. The only provably known source for his place of origin (according to [MD 3:45-6]) is from Mourt's Relations, where a short quote on p.15 says he was "a Londoner".
His parentage is UNPROVEN.

m: Elizabeth [---] (ABT 1583-12 OCT 1673)

Children:

William Brewster

Notes:

!On the Mayflower, age abt. 54., married with children at the time. !Occupation: Printer, Pub. !Source: The Mayflower and her Log.
Long biography in "William Brewster, His True Position in our Colonial History" by Hon. Lyman Denison Brewster, in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. IV, pg. 100-109, 1902.
According to the above, he was almost certainly the draftor of the Mayflower compact. He was a scholar educated at Cambridge, the oldest aboard the Mayflower, and the spiritual leader of the Pilgrims. He was a prominent organizer of the Pilgrim movement.
The following short biography is taken from Random House Encyclopedia, 1977: Pilgrim Religious Leader, Signatory of the Mayflower Compact. He withdrew from the Anglican Church (1606) forming the Separatists, who, due to persecution, fled from England to Holland (1608), where they became known as Pilgrims. He returned to England to help organize the Pilgrim migration on the Mayflower 1620. He was a leader of the church at Plymouth and influential in management of the colony.
Other sources: "Mayflower Genealogies: Vital Statistics of the Mayflower Passengers" by George Ernest Bowman, in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol.2, pg. 114-120; 1900.
"The Brewster Genealogy (1566-1907)" by Emma C. Brewster Jones, Vol. 1 & 2. The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers: New York; 1908.
"The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower" by John G. Hunt, in NEHGR 125:250.
"William Brewster: The Father of New England, His Life and Times 1567-1644" by Rev. H. Kirk-Smith, Richard Kay Pub., 1992, 272 pages. (Excellent book)
!Parents: The parents of William Brewster are given in an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 124, pg 150, where the authors argue that the parents of William Brewster were probably William Brewster and Mary Smythe. This is likely to be correct, although it is hard to prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
!Birth: Mayf.Des.18:18. !Death: Mayf.Des.1:7. !Birth-Death: "The True Date of the Birth & Death of Elder Brewster" NEHGR 18:18, MD 2:115, 3:15. !Inventory: MD 3:15
!Education: He matriculated at Cambridge University on the 3rd December 1580, as a Pensioner of Peterhouse Collect (Arber, E., 1897, p.189).
In [Shurtleff 12:115-117], a long agreement between Love Brewster and Jonathan Brewster is recorded (Plymouth Deeds). It reads, in part: "Whereas William Brewster late of Plym gent deceased left onely two sonnes surviveing viz. Jonathan the eldest and Love the yeonger And whereas the said William died intestate for ought can to this day appeare The said Jonathan and Love his sonnes when they returned from the buriall of their father ..." agreed how to divide up the estate "wth an entire half part of the estate of the said Willm was given to the said Love and Sarah his wyfe upon a Covenant of Contract of marryage to be due at the death of the said Willm Brester now deceased. All wch was offerred to be prooved legally if neede require by solemne pmise though not in writing." Dated 20 Aug 1645.
========================================================================== The following is from the Dictionary of American Biography Vol. 2, pg. 29-30:
BREWSTER, WILLIAM (1567-Apr. 10, 1644), Pilgrim father, was an Elder of the Pilgrim Church, first in importance during the Scrooby period, second in importance during the Leyden and Plymouth periods. A deposition of his at Leyden finally settles the dispute about the date of his birth and fixes it in the winter of 1566/67, probably in January. He came to Scrooby in 1571 with his father and mother; his father in 1575 became baliff of the Manor of Scrooby, one of the exempt estates of the Archbishop of York, and in 1588 was appointed postmaster by Queen Elizabeth when Scrooby was made a post-house on the road between London and York. These positions made the father a man of great importance in the district and provided him with a considerable income. The boy was somehow prepared for the university and entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in December 1580, where he himself later declared that he acquired his first Separatist ideas. He did not take a degree and perhaps remained at Cambridge only a few months. In the autumn of 1583 he became a member of the household of William Davidson, then important in administrative and diplomatic life at the court of Elizabeth, and, becoming one of his trusted retainers, accompanied him on missions to the Netherlands in 1584 and in 1585-86. Despite the disgrace of Davison in 1587 as a result of his part in the execution of Mary Stuart and his consequent retirement from public life, Brewster remained in his service until news of his father's serious illness caused his return to Scrooby in 1589. He served as his father's deputy until the latter's death in 1590 and then was himself appointed to the positions of baliff and postmaster, retaining both until the exodus to Holland in 1608. He married in 1591 Mary (---), by whom he had before 1620 six children. Gradually he became the protector and then the principal member of a little congregation of Puritans, gathered from Scrooby and the near-by villages. But they did not "separate" from the Established Church until the autumn of 1606 and it was not until a year later that John Robinson joined them. After some investigation of their proceedings by the High Commission of York, which certainly did not amount to persecution, they decided to leave so ungodly a land and finally succeeded in emigrating to Holland in 1608. Finding Amsterdam also uncongenial, they settled at Leyden in 1609. Here, if not earlier, Brewster became elder and teacher of the new church. To earn a living for his family, he became a printer of Puritan books, wirtten by the leaders in England, and shipped back to them for sale and distribution at home. In 1617 the initiation of the plan for emigration to America took him and others to England where he interviewed officers of the Virginia Company and various royal officials to secure permission to colonize and a grand of land. Beyond much doubt he was the principal envoy. Returning to Leyden, he printed in 1618 or 1619 a book which gave great offense to James I. Of this the English government complained to the Dutch authorities in 1619 with such effect that Brewster felt it wiser to discontinue the press altogether and to return with his family to England where he seems to have lived unmolested until the Mayflower sailed in 1620. He played therefore no part in the final steps at Leyden for the emigration to America and was not present when the decision was reached, in April 1620, that the majority should remain at Leyden with Robinson their minister, while the minority should attempt the venture with Brewster himself as their leader. It also seems probable that he played no important part in organizing the company which sailed for America direct from England, being fearful of royal interference with his own emigration. He embarked on the Mayflower at London with his wife, two sons, and two boys "bound out" to him. At Plymouth, Brewster was the only church officer until 1629, but held services of prayer and praise only; he expounded the Scripture at length, but was forbidden by the rules to preach, baptize, or celebrate the communion. Though he was therefore never a minister in the Pilgrim sense of the word and though they "called" Smith, Roger Williams, Chauncey, and Reynor as their ministers later, he remained throughout his life the real leader of the church at Plymouth and the man chiefly responsible for its doctrines, observances, and worship. Administrative position was foreclosed to him by his position in the church but he was active in counsel and played a part second only to Bradford in all decisions, great and small. He became one of the Undertakers in 1627 who assumed the Pilgrim indebtedness. His library (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 2nd ser., III, 261-74; V, 37-85) proves him to have been read in history, philosophy, and religious poetry and shows that he continued to buy books throughout his life. We have no idea of his personal appearance but we do know from the inventory of his property (Mayflower Descendant III:15-27) that he wore a violet colored cloth coat, black silk stockings, a ruff, and other clothing, of impeccable modesty, but less severe than the popular tradition attributes to the Pilgrims. Social life at Plymouth was undoubtedly quiet in the extreme but in it Brewster played a very important part, being, says Bradford, "of a very cherful Spirite, very sociable and pleasante amongst his friends." He died Apr. 10, 1644, at Plymouth, possessed of a house, lands, cattle, and personalty worth 107 pounds.

m: Mary Wentworth (ABT 1569-17 APR 1627)

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