Ancestry of
Owen Brewster

54th Governor of Maine

William Brewster

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Owen Brewster — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 268 
  • Father:
  • Love Brewster 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Collier   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1645 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Nov 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, South Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Partridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Jan 1672 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Brewster

  Nathaniel Brewster (Ahnentafel No:134 )

  Lydia Brewster

  William Brewster

  Mercy Brewster

  Benjamin Brewster

  Joseph Brewster

  Joshua Brewster

• Sources for William Brewster

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 378.
  • ² Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 33, 39-40.
  • ³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 114, 191-194.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 14, 39-40.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • 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), 86, 151, 178, 188, 231, 278, 335, 570, 692.
  • ⁷ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 110.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 33.