Jonathan Brewster (colonist)

Jonathan Brewster (August 12, 1593 – August 7, 1659) was an early American settler, the son and eldest child of elder William Brewster and his wife, Mary.

Brewster had two younger sisters, Patience and Fear, and two younger brothers, Love and Wrestling along with an unnamed brother who died young.

In around 1610, he accompanied his family to Leiden in Holland, where he married his first wife.

Brewster died on August 7, 1659, in New London, Connecticut, at the age of 65.

[3] Jonathan Brewster married Lucretia Oldham, originally of Derby, on 10 April 1624 in Plymouth.

Marker at the gate of Brewster's Neck Cemetery in Preston CT where Jonathan and Lucretia Brewster and some of their descendants are buried
A manuscript signed by Amos Turner who was a grandson of Jonathan Brewster. Courtesy of Shiwei Jiang of Virginia.