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Andrew Shue

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William Brewster

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Andrew Shue — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 506 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Brewster 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Witter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Sep 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 23 Jun 1716 
  • Christening Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 12 Nov 1801 
  • Death Location:
  • Middlebury, Addison, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Damaris Gates
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Mar 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Asa Brewster

  Drusilla Brewster (Ahnentafel No:253 )

• Additional marriages for William Brewster

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  • Spouse:
  • Esther Sabin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jan 1752
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for William Brewster

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 82, Marriage record for William Brewster and Damaris Gates.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 39, Birth record for son Cyrus Brewster.
  • ³ Compiled by Gordan Alan Morris and Philip Sabin Hibbard I, William Sabin and his Descendants 1609-2000, (Published by Shirley Bradshaw, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000), 54-55.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 254.
  • ⁵ Gates, Charles Otis, Stephen Gates of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1898), 17.
  • ⁶ Greenlee, Ralph Stebbins and Robert Lemuel Greenlee, The Stebbins Genealogy, Volume 1, Chicago, Illinois: Privately printed (1904), 419.
  • ⁷ 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), 58, 90-91.
  • ⁸ 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), 116.
  • ⁹ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1221.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 231, 335, 692.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 36.

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