Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Martha Brewster

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• • Great-grandmother of Archibald MacLeish — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Elias Brewster 
  • Mother:
  • Margery Morgan   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Mar 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Sep 1850 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Long Society Burying Ground, Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Moses Hillard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Feb 1824 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Griswold, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elias Brewster Hillard (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Martha Brewster's given name is also seen as Patty.

• Sources for Martha Brewster

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 108, Birth record for son Elias Brewster Hillard.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 32, Birth record for Patty Brewster.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 32, Marriage record for Moses Hillard and Martha Brewster in Griswold.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 322.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, p. 124, Cemetery record for Martha Hillard.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 178.
  • ⁷ Tuttle, Roger W., Biographies of Graduates of the Yale Law School, 1824-1899, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1911), 543.