Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Simon Brewster

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Brewster 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Witter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jun 1720 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 17 Jul 1720 
  • Christening Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jun 1801 
  • Death Location:
  • Griswold, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Brewster Cemetery, Griswold, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Andrus
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 May 1742 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mercy Brewster

  Simon Brewster

  Elias Brewster (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  Joseph Brewster

• Sources for Simon Brewster

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, pp. 322, 329.
  • ³ 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, 91-92.
  • 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), 116.
  • 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), 151, 178, 188, 570.