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Love Brewster

Love Brewster

Male Abt 1611 - 1650  (39 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has 10 ancestors and 19 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Love Brewster 
    Birth Abt 1611  Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 31 Jan 1650  Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Initiatory (LDS) 19 Jun 1895  SGEOR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID L5BC-FV2 
    Person ID I1204  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Elder William Brewster,   b. Abt 1566, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Mary,   b. Abt 1569, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1593  Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F912  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Collier,   b. 30 Apr 1616, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Apr 1691, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 15 May 1634  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Sarah Brewster,   b. Abt 1636, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1678, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
     2. Wrestling Brewster,   b. 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jan 1695, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
     3. Love Brewster   d. 1 Jan 1696, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Deacon William Brewster,   b. 9 Mar 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1723, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F889  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Nov 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1611 - Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 May 1634 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 31 Jan 1650 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 19 Jun 1895 - SGEOR Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Mayflower - Pilgrim

      SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907)

      SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Soci e ty, Boston, MA).

      SOURCE: Barbara Lambert Merrick, (General Society of Mayflower Descendan t s).

      Love Brewster was born in Leiden, Holland, to parents William and Mary B r ewster. His father William was the Elder of the congregation, and in Le id en was a teacher of English and also published books on religion and t heo logy (most of which were illegally sent into England).
      At the age of about 9, he came with his father and mother on the Mayflow e r to Plymouth. He married Sarah Collier in Plymouth on 15 May 1634. Sar a h was the daughter of William Collier, one of the investors, or Mercha n t Adventurers: a shareholder in the Plymouth Plantation. Love becam e a fr eeman (able to vote and hold land) in the Plymouth Colony on 2 Mar ch 1635 /6, and was a volunteer to fight in the Pequot War of 1637, but P lymout h Colony's volunteers were not needed. He raised his family in th e town o f Duxbury, volunteered for the militia under Captain Myles Stand ish, an d lived out his life in the town. His wife Sarah survived him fo r about t hirty more years, dying on 26 April 1691.