Pane-Joyce Genealogy

Family of Elder William Brewster (810) & Mary [Brewster]

2964. Elder Jonathan Brewster. Born on 12 Aug 1593 in Scrooby, Nottingham, Eng.⁵ Jonathan died in Preson, CT, on 7 Aug 1659; he was 65.¹⁵⁴

Jonathan “came to Plymouth in the Fortune, Nov., 1621. ... He was admitted into full citizenship at Leyden, June 30, 1617. On Aug. 27, 1618, he witnessed the betrothal of Edward Winslow. About 1630 Jonathan removed his family to Duxbury, from which place he was a deputy to the General Court 1639, '41-'44. In 1649 he removed to New London, where he was admitted as an inhabitant Feb. 25, 1649-50. Here he soon became deputy to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut,
1650-'55-'58."¹⁵⁴

"He was a ribbon maker and exporter in Holland, and in 1617 he formed a partnership with Thomas
Brewer, who later became one of the Adventurers. In Plymouth, Jonathan engaged in various activities, acting at times as an attorney, starting a ferry service, and engaging in coastal shipping to Virginia. In 1635 he was in charge of a trading post in Connecticut on behalf of Plymouth Colony, later returning to Plymouth. In 1652 he started his own trading post in Connecticut, and was censured by the local government for doing it without permission, but was allowed to keep his post. He was a close friend of Connecticut Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. and a fellow experimenter and scientist with his own laboratory at his trading post."¹⁵⁵

"Jonathan arrived at Cape Cod on the Fortune 9 November 1621 ...

“Jonathan was also one of the men who undertook to discharge the debts of Plymouth Colony. A freeman in 1633, he was active in the settlement of the town of Duxbury, incorporated 7 June 1637. Records indicate that he served as a surveyor, laid out highways, practiced as an attorney, and was styled "gentleman." Jonathan served as military commissioner in the Pequot War in 1637, was on a committee to raise forces during the Narragansett Alarm of 1642, and was a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643. He served several terms as Deputy to General Court of Plymouth Colony in 1639, and 1641 through 1644. In 1638 Jonathan Brewster established a ferry service to transport men and cattle across the North River."¹³⁵

On 10 Apr 1624 when Jonathan was 30, he married Lucretia Oldham (1816) , daughter of William Oldham (536) (26 Jun 1568-26 Jun 1636) & Philippa Sowter (15 Jul 1568-Mar 1616/7), in Plymouth, MA.¹⁵⁴ Born ca Jan 1600 in Derby, Derbyshire. Lucretia was baptized in Parish of All Saints, Derby, on 14 Jan 1600.⁵ Lucretia died on 4 Mar 1678/9 in Preston, CT.

Their children include:

6532	i.	William Brewster (9 Mar 1625-)
6533	ii.	Mary Brewster (16 Apr 1627-aft 23 Mar 1698)
6534	iii.	Jonathan Brewster (17 Jul 1629-)
6535	iv.	Ruth Brewster (3 Oct 1631-30 Apr 1677)
6536	v.	Benjamin Brewster (17 Nov 1633-14 Sep 1710)
6537	vi.	Elizabeth Brewster (1 May 1637-Feb 1708)
6538	vii.	Grace Brewster (1 Nov 1639-22 Apr 1684)
6539	viii.	Hannah Brewster (3 Nov 1641-aft 25 Nov 1691)

2965. Patience Brewster. Born ca 1603 in Scrooby, Nottingham, Eng.⁵ Patience died in late 1634 in Plymouth, MA.⁵

Patience and her sister Fear came on the Ann in Jul 1623. Patience died of “Pestilent Feaver.”

On 5 Aug 1624 Patience married Gov. Thomas Prence, son of Thomas Prence (-1630) & Elizabeth Tolderby, in Plymouth, MA.⁵ Born ca 1600 in Lechdale, Gloucester, Eng. Thomas died on 29 Mar 1673 in Plymouth, MA.³ “Thomas Prence Esquire Gov^r: of the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth Died the 29^th of March 1673 and was Interred the 8^th of Aprill following; after hee had served God in the office of Gov^r:sisteen yeares or neare therunto hee finished his Course in the 73 yeare of his life: hee was a worthy Gentleman very pious: and very able for his office and faithfull in the Discharge therof studious of peace a welwiller to all that feared God; and a terrour to the wicked, his; Death was much lamented, and his body honorably buryed att Plymouth the Day and yeare abovemensioned”. Buried on 8 Apr 1673 in Plymouth, MA.³

"He was another able business man to arrive in Plymouth on the Fortune in 1621, and became Governor of Plymouth Colony for 20 years, serving at times from 1634 to 1673. He followed his father-in-law, William Brewster, to Duxbury in 1632, and finally removed to Nauset (Eastham) in 1644 with six other families, returning later to Plymouth where he died." ¹⁵⁴

"Prence arrived at Plymouth Colony in 1621 on the Fortune, and from the beginning seemed to have taken a leading role in Plymouth affairs. Of the eight Plymouth Undertakers, who seemed to be the most important men in the colony in 1627, Prence was the only one who had not arrived on the Mayflower. He became governor in 1634, and was elected an Assistant in 1635, and from then on he was either an Assistant or governor every year for the rest of his life. He also served as treasurer, as president of the Council of WAr, and in various other capacities. With the death of of Bradford in 1657, Prence became without a doubt the most important ind influential man in the colony. He was of a conservative nature, as is shown by his siding with Bradford and Winslow in the 1645 Vassall controversy, and by his actions against the Quakers. He was involved in several law suits which were decided in his favor, ... "¹⁵⁵

"In July 1627, Thomas Prence became one of the eight parnters called undertakers, who guaranteed the purchase of Plymouth Colony from the merchant adventurers. He, with his father-in-law, William Brewster, and brother-in-law, Jonathan Brewster, signed ‘Articles of Agreement’ to have the ‘whole trade consigned to us for some years’ to pay the ‘debts (of the colony) and set them free:’ and to ‘transport as many of our brethern of Leyden over’ to Plymouth. Thomas Prence served Plymouth Colony as Governors Assistant in 1632, 1635-37, and 1639 through 1656. He was the treasurer of Plymouth Colony from 1637 to 1640 and he served as Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645, 1650 and 1653-56. On 1 January 1633/34, when he was only 34 years old, Thomas Prence was elected as the fourth governor of Plymouth Colony. He served his second term in 1638, during which time he presided over the trial of four men wh had robbed and murdered an Indian near Providence. The evidence presented to the court resulted in them being found guilty and they were hung, one having escaped.
‘On 3 June 1657, Thomas Prence was again elected Governor of the jurisdiction of New Plymouth and served until his death in 1673.’”¹³⁵

“Thomas Prence was the most distinguished of the settlers of Eastham, though not the best educated. At the time of his removal in 1645, he was holding the position of an assistant ot Gove. Bradford, and had twice been chosen govenor of the infant colony—first election in 1634, and second election in 1638. He was a native of Lechlade, a parish in Gloucestershire, England, it is understood, and born about the year 1600. He came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune, in November, 1621. At the time of his removal he was residing in Duxbury. His farm at Eastham contained many acres. It was situated northwest of Town cove, in that part now include within the present town of Eastham. His house stood on the est side of teh county road, near where Mr. E. Doane’s howse now [1916] stands. It is said his farm comprised teh ‘richest land’ in the place. The famous old pear tree planted by him while a resident, and which was blown down in 1849, stood but a few rods westward from the site of his house. He was a large land-owner. He owned land in what became afterwards Harwich and Truro, besides tracts at Tonset and other localities iin ht Colony. He disposed of most of his landed estate before his death. His tracts at Sauquatucket, now Brewster, which came to him by grant, on the account of haveing been a ‘Purchaser or Old-Comer,’ he sold to his son-in-law, Major John Freeman, in 1672. His ‘half share’ at Paumet, both ‘purchased and unpurchased,’ lying between ‘Bound Brook,’ at Wellfleet, and ‘Eastern Harbor or Lovell’s Creek,’ he sold to Mr. Thomas Paine in 1670.
“Mr. Pratt, in his History of Estham, says the homestead of Gov. Prence was given by will to his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman, but the statement is not supported by documentary evidence. Records show that Gov. Prence did sell to his ‘beloverd son-in-law, Mr. Samuel Freeman, Jan. 12, 1671, for thirty pounds’ his ‘hose lot situated and being in the town of Eastham’ and ‘containing eighteen acres of upland, be it more or less,’ boutnde ‘at the northeasterly end’ by a creek, together with other upland and meadows in other parts of the town. Records also show that Gov. Prence provided a place of abode for his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman and Mercy his wife, soon after thier marrigae, and that in December, 1662, it was conveyed to them. They were then residing upon it. It was the place of the governor purchased of Mr. Josiah Cook, a ‘gentleman’ of Eastham. The position of this house lot the writer cannot give, but undoubtedly it was near Gov. Prence’s place.
“Gov. Prence continued in the office of an assistant by successive elections till 1657, when he was unanimously elected to the office of governor, as successor to Gov. Bradford, who died that eyar. As the law erquired teh governor to reside at the seat of government, a dispensation was obtained from him, and he was allowed to remain at Eastham, as he desired. Mrs. Bardford was engaged to entertain him and his assistants while at Court; and attendant was appointed to attend him in his journey to and from Plymouth, and Mr. Allyn of Barnstable was engaged to accommodate him and his attendant in his house with private rooms when passing ‘to and from’ In 1665, Gov. Prence removed to Plymouth, and occupied the place provided by the government at a place called Plain Dealing, which the late Judge John Davis, a native of Plymouth, says was ‘nearly two miles from the centre of the town on the road to Boston.’ The laste William Russell in his Guide to Plymouth, says the place called Plain Dealing ‘extended it is believed to Kingston line’; and that Gov. PRence’s house was near ‘Mr. Hedges,’ and in the vicinity of ‘Starts Hill.’ At this place, while occupying the gubernatorial chair, he died March 29, 1673, in his 73d year. He was ‘honorably interred at Plymouth, April 8th.’ Judge Davis says: ‘The Plymouth church records, in expressing Mr. Prence’s character and his amiable and pleasant conversation, depart from their usual course by an indication of his personal appearance, from which it may be supposed that it was peculiarly dignified and striking. He was excellently qualified for the office of governor. He had a countenance full of majesty, and therein, as well as otherwise, was a terror to evil doers. Besides holding the office of governor, Mr. Prence was a great number of years an assistant of Gov. Bradford. He was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies many years; coloniah treasurer and one of the council of war. He was one of those who stood bound to the adventures for the payment of the sum they demanded for their interest in the stock, trade, etc., of the Colony, when the purchase was made in behalf of those who came in the three first ships, viz: Mayflower, Fortune and Ann.
“Gov. Prence’s will bears date March 13th, 1673, and codicil march 28th, 1683. He appointed his wife, Mary, executrix, and desired that his brother, Thomas Clark, and Mr. Josiah Winslow be her advisers. To his wife mary, he gave the profits of his part of the mill at Sauquatuckett, now West Brewster, with the land adjacent to it, which he desired at her death to go to his grandson, Theophilus Mayo, who was living with him. This, he said, he gave him for his encourgement to proceed in learning. HE also gave him all his ‘books fit for him in learning. He ennjoined him to ‘carry it well with his grandmother,’ and, in case he did so, to have a ‘bed.’ How dutiful he was to his aged grandparent, we have no means of knowing. He doubtless removed with her to Yarmouth. From what can now be gathered he did not survive her. Hes death, it is supposed, took place about 1678. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Prence) Mayo, and it would seem, at the death of his father, was taken by the governor into his family. The governor also gave him one-half of his land and meadow near Namassakett, in Middleboro, which if he died without descendants, would be equally divided between Gov. Prence’s daughters. Of his books he gave, among others, ‘to Maj John Freeman, of Eastham, Speed’s, Church’s and Wilson’s Dictionary; Simpson’s History of the Church, and Newman’s Concordance.’ He mande other bequests, but we cannot mention them all.
“The inventory of the governor’s estate shows he owned on the Cape, ‘one fourth of the mill and land adjoining to it at Satuckett,’ now West Brewster; twenty acres of land and three acres of meadow at Tonsett in Eastham, and eighteen acres on Porchy Island. Befre his death Gov. Prence disposed of most of his estate by deeds. Thomas Prence’s descendants are numerous upon the Cape. Thomas Prence, the only son of the governor, died in England, leaving no sons, consequently he has no descendants of the patronymic living.”⁵⁵

Their children include:

10038	i.	Rebecca Prence (ca 1625-Mar 1648)
10039	ii.	Thomas Prence (ca 1627-bef 13 Mar 1672)
10040	iii.	Hannah Prence (ca 1629-25 Nov 1698)
10041	iv.	Mercy Prence (4 Jan 1631-28 Sep 1711)

2966. Fear Brewster. Born ca 1606 in England.¹³⁵ Fear died ca 12 Dec 1634 in Plymouth, MA.

Fear arrived at Plymouth about 10 Jul 1623 in the Anne.135

ca 1627 Fear married Isaac Allerton, son of Edward Allerton (ca 1553-Jan 1589/90) & Rose Davis (ca 1559-Jun 1596), in Plymouth, MA. Born ca 1586 in Suffolk, England. Isaac died in between 1 and 12 Feb 1658/9 in New Haven, CT.⁵

Isaac Allerton was a Mayflower passenger.

“He may have been with the Pilgrims in Amsterdam about 1610, and earlier as a merchant in Holland, but most likely he joined the Robinson church with others from London. It is known he was of London before 1609, and thet he was admitted as burgess of Leyden, Holland, in 1614.
“His son Bartholomew returned to England, married and became a preacher. No doubt much of his education was obtained through the teaching of William Brewster, who also later on, brought up and prepared his brother Isaac, Jr., for Harvard. He appeared to have been a merchant tailor. His name is first recorded in Leyden with that of a widowed sister Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, also of London, who married Degory Priest Nov. 4, 1611. His own marriage to Mary Norris took place at the same time. The Allerton family is old and honorable in England, a mixture of Saxon and Danish. There is a fine coat of arms in the Heraldic College at London. "Allerton" is the name of a parish in north Yorkshire.
“While in Leyden, Isaac Allerton seems to have carried on his business of tailor. When admitted to citizenship in 1614, he was guaranteed by Roger Wilson and Henry Wood, and in 1615 "guaranteed" his brother-in-law Priest. ...
“Like most of the Mayflower group born in the sixteenth century, Allerton was an ambitious man striving to succeed in a business way, and his associates had a profound respect for his judgment. ... Among several outstanding characters associated with the Mayflower Planters, Isaac Allerton holds a very unique position. His vision was somewhat broader than any of the others, especially in the matters of commerce, and his immediate contemporaries were quick to take advantage of his exceptional abilities.
“He was one of the mainstays in Holland, and from the beginning in Plymouth served almost continuously until 1633-4 as assistant to the Governor. AFter the death of Robert Cushman, the Plymouth agent in London, in 1625, Allerton was chosen to take his place. He made several trips between England and America which brought him very little except unfriendly criticism, yet the supplies he brought over during the period of adjustment with the Merchant Adventurers saved much distress,although Bradford claimed they were "on his owne perticuler." ...
“Allerton was the only Mayflower Planter to become a resident of New York." ¹⁵⁴
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"A Leiden separatist and 1620 Mayflower passenger, Allerton was second in authority only to Bradford in the early years of the colony. However, Bradford felt that Allerton had abused the trust the colonists placed on him, and Allerton left the colony in the 1630s for other parts. A most enterprising man, he engaged in commercial pursuits at Marblehead and in Maine and later resided at New Amsterdam.
"Support came from a group of businessmen called "Adventurers," who ventured capital into this particular New World settlement in the hope of great profits."¹⁵⁵
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“Isaac Allerton served as Assistant Governor of Plymouth Colony in 1621and 1634, became an ‘undertaker’ of the colony's debt in 1627, and made five voyages to England while serving as an agent for the colony. He had a trading post at Machias, Maine in 1632-33, and a fish station at Marblehead in 1635."¹³⁵

Their children include:

	10042	i.	Sarah Allerton (bef 23 May 1627-bef 1651)
	10043	ii.	Isaac Allerton (ca 1630-1702)

2967. Love Brewster. Born ca 1611 in Leiden, Holland. Love died on 31 Jan 1650 in Duxbury, MA.

Love came on the Mayflower with his parents William and Mary Brewster.

“A passenger of the Mayflower, Love Brewster was admitted freeman of the Colony 2 March 1635/6. He served as a Pequot War volunteer in 1637, and was a member of Capt. Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643. He served on the grand jury from Duxbury 1648, and was also one of the proprietors of Bridgewater.”¹³⁵

Will: The last Will and Testament of Love Brewster Deseassed exhibited at the generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March 1650 upon the oath of Captaine Miles Standish

Witnesseth these psents that I Love Brewster of Duxburrow in New England and in the goverment of New Plym: being in pfect memory doe ordeaine & appoint this to bee my last will and Testamente And first my will is that if the lord shall please to take mee out of this life that my body bee buried in a decent mannor and that my funerall expences bee taken out of my whole estate; Next my will is; That all my Just and lawfull debts bee paied out of the Remainder of my said estate allso I give unto my Children that is to say Nathaniell Willam Wrasteling and Sara each of them a kettle and further my will is that my three sonns shall have each of them a peece that is to say a gun; allso I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sara Brewster all the Residue of my whole estate both goods and Chattles and land at Duxburrow for her bringing up of her and my Children the time of her life and after her decease I doe give the aforsaid lands to my eldest sonn and heire apparent Nathaniell Brewster and in Case god should take him away out of this life without Issew I give and bequeath the said lands at Duxburrow to my second sonn Willam Brewster and in like case to my youngest sonn Wresteling Brewster; And for those books I have that my wife would destribute them to herselfe and Children at her discresion allso my will is and I doe by the same give unto my three sonns equally to be devided amongst them all such land as of Right due to mee by Purchase and first coming into the land Which was in the yeare 1620 allso I doe make Constitute and appoint my beloved wife Sara Brewster sole executrix of this my last will and Testament in Witnes Wherof I have put to my hand and Seale this sixt of october 1650

Witness heerunto Love Brewster

Myles Standish

On 15 May 1634 Love married Sarah Collier (1000) , daughter of William Collier (387) (ca 1585-ca 1670/1671) & Jane Clark (ca 1590-aft 28 Jun 1666), in Plymouth, MA.³ Born ca 1616 in Southwark, Surrey, Eng. Sarah was baptized in St Olave, Southwark, on 30 Apr 1616.⁵ Sarah died on 26 Apr 1691 in Duxbury, MA.

Their children include:

3531	i.	Sarah Brewster (ca 1635-aft 1670)
3532	ii.	Nathaniel Brewster (ca 1637-bef 11 Oct 1676)
3533	iii.	Dea. William Brewster (ca 1644-3 Nov 1723)
3534	iv.	Wrestling Brewster (ca 1645-1 Jan 1697)

2968. (a child) Brewster. (a child) died in Jun 1609 in Leiden, Holland. Buried on 20 Jun 1609 in Leiden, Holland.⁵

2969. Wrestling Brewster. Born ca 1611 in Leiden, Holland.⁵ Wrestling died aft 1627.⁵

Wrestling died a young man, unmarried. He did not settle at Piscataqua, NY, and was not the father of John Brewster, of Portsmouth, NH.

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