Benjamin BREWSTER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Deputy of the Connecticut General Court
• Military Service: 1673; lieutenant of New London Troops
• Military Service: 1693; Captain of the Miltary Company of Norwich

Benjamin married Anne ADDIS on 28 Feb 1659 in Norwich, Conn. Anne (daughter of William ADDIS and Millicent WOOD) was christened on 17 Mar 1628 in Frampton on Severne, Gloucestershire, England; died in 09 May 1708 and 02 May 1709 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary BREWSTER was born on 10 Dec 1660 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.
2. Jonathan BREWSTER was born in Nov 1664 in Stonington, New London Co. Connecticut; died on 20 Nov 1704 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.
3. Daniel BREWSTER was born on 1 Mar 1666/7 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 7 May 1735 in Preston, Connecticut.

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.