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Jordana Brewster

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Jonathan Brewster Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Jordana Brewster — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 128 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Brewster 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Parish   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jun 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Apr 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Brewster Cemetery, Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Zipporah Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Aug 1754 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elisha Brewster (Ahnentafel No:64 )

  Jonathan Brewster

  • Notes: 

  • The marriage record in the Preston vital records for Jonathan Brewster and Zipporah Smith gives their wedding date as 28 AUG 1755. This is 6 months after the birth of their first child Elisha. The Brewster Genealogy (1907) by Emma Jones cites a family record giving the wedding date as 26 AUG 1754. Given the birth of Elisha, it seems more likely that the family record has the correct date.

• Sources for Jonathan Brewster Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 30, Birth record for son Elisha Brewster.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 31, Birth record for son Jonathan Brewster.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 31, Marriage record for Jonathan Brewster and Zipporah Smith.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, p. 31, Birth record for Jonathan Brewster.
  • ⁵ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 11594, Membership application for Hiram Bingham.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2016).
  • ⁷ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1909, Vol. 63, p. 365.
  • ⁹ 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), 73, 123.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 173, 517.

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