Ruth TURNER

Ruth married Thomas PRINCE in Dec 1685. Thomas (son of Rev John PRINCE and Alice HONOR) was christened on 8 Aug 1658 in Hingham, Massachusetts; died in 1696 in Barbadoes, British West Indies. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Israel SYLVESTER on 3 Oct 1701 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Israel was born on 23 Sep 1674 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; was christened on 19 Sep 1675; died between 26 Mar 1715 and 13 Feb 1716/7 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ruth SYLVESTER was born on 26 Jun 1702 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died before 17 Nov 1779.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: A freeman at Scituate
• Occupation: A tanner by trade

John married Mary BREWSTER between 10 and 12 Nov 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Jonathan BREWSTER and Lucretia OLDHAM) was born on 16 Apr 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died between 23 Nov 1697 and 1698 in Probably Scituate, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary married November 10, 1645 to John Turner of Situate the Elder, son of Humphrey and Lydia (Gamer) Turner of Scituate, Mass., and formerly of Essex, England. His will was dated Marach 4, 1695, proved June 28, 1697. The had 13 children.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Became a Dutch citizen
• Military Service: 1637; Military Commissioner in the Pequot War
• Occupation: 1639; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony
• Occupation: 1641; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony
• Military Service: 1643; Member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company
• Occupation: 1644; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony

Notes:

Jonathan came in the ship Fortune in November, 1621. He married Lucretia. She was probable a sister of John Oldham, who came to Plymouth on his 'perticular', about 1623, and who was called 'brother' by Jonathan. About 1630 Jonathan removed his family to Duxbury, from which place he was deputy to the General Court, Plymouth Colony, 1639, 1641-1644. He then removed to New London, Conn., about 1649, and settled in that part which later established as Norwich, his farm lying in both towns. Here he was deputy to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, 1650, 1655-1658.

In 1637 he was a military commissioner in the Pequot War; a member of the Duxbury Committee to raise forces in the Narragansett Alarm of 1642, and a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in the military enrollment of 1643.
REF: Winsor's Hist. Duxbury, p. 90; Peirce's Col. Lists p. 75 and 84 and Genl. Reg. Soc. Col. War, 1899-1902, pg 576

The descendants erected in the Brewster Cemetery, in 1855, a plain granite shaft about eight feet high, to the memory of Jonathan and his wife, Lucretia. A part of the inscription on the monument, referring to Jonahtan Brewster, says: "History speaks of his act," and to Lucretia Brewster there is the following: "A noble specimen of an enlightened, heroic Christian gentlewoman."

The Brewster Cemetery is at Brewster's Neck, between Poquetanuck Cove and the Thames River, in Connecticut. It contains about one square acre and is surrounded by a substantial stone wall, which was rebuilt in 1903.

Notes from William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for 4 Generations:
1. One of the men who undertook to discharge the debts of Plymouth Colony.
2. A freeman in 1633, he was active in the settlement of the town of Duxbury, Mass., incorporated June 7,1637.
3. Served as a surveyor, laid out highways, practiced as an attorney, and was styled "gentleman".
4. In 1638, established a ferry service to transport men and cattle across the North River. But sold this in 1641 to Messrs. Barker, Howell and others.

Jonathan married Lucretia OLDHAM on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, Conn.. Lucretia (daughter of William OLDHAM and Phillipa SOWTER) was born in Derby, England; died between 04 Mar 1678 and 1679 in Brewster's Neck, Preston, New London, Conn.; was buried in Brewster Cemetery, Montville, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 04 Jan 1600, Darby, England; Parish of All Saints, Derby
• Baptism: 14 Jan 1600, Darby, England; Parish of All Saints, Derby

Notes:

Lucretia was a woman of note and respectability among her compeers. She has always the prefix of honor and is usually presented to view in some useful capacity: an attendant upon the sich and dying as nurse, doctress, or midwife, or a witness to wills and other important transactions.

Lucretia came over on the "Anne" with her brother, John Oldham, arriving about July 10, 1623.