Jonathan Brewster Reaches Plymouth on Fortune
Son Assumes Father’s Leadership Role
Oct 24, 2009 Rosemary E. Bachelor
Jonathan (1593-1659), born at Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, came to Plymouth aboard the Fortune in the fall of 1621.
About 1610, Jonathan had accompanied his family to Leyden in Holland, where he married his first wife. Brewster did not join his family on the Mayflower in 1620, He stayed behind in Leyden instead with his wife, who died soon after, and their infant son, who also died. Brewster then came to America on the ship Fortune in 1621.
Jonathan Brewster
Primogeniture was then a subtle thing. Nothing deemed that Jonathan should take on his father’s role as elder of the Plymouth settlement, but the role did devolve upon him. On April 10, 1624, in Plymouth, Jonathan Brewster married Lucretia Oldham, the daughter of William Oldham and Phillipa Sowter; her brother was Captain John Oldham, whose slaying led to the Pequot Indian war. Brewster and Oldham had eight children. Their children were:
- William Brewster, born 9 March 1625
- Mary Brewster, born 16 April 1627
- Jonathan Brewster, born 17 July 1629
- Ruth Brewster, born 3 October 1631
- Elizabeth Brewster, born 1 May 1637
- Grace Brewster (1639-1684)
- Hannah Brewster, born 3 Nov. 1641
- Benjamin Brewster, born 16 Nov. 1643
Jonathan Brewster died on August 7, 1659 in New London, Connecticut. He was buried at Brewster's Plain, Norwich, Connecticut.
Line of Descent from Jonathan Brewster
This line of descent is from Jonathan Brewster’s daughter Mary.
- Mary Brewster was born in 1627 and died after March of 1697. She married in 1645 John Turner Sr., who died in 1697 at Scituate, MA.
- Lydia Turner (1652-1714) in 1675 married John James. He died in 1676 at Scituate.
- John James (1676/7-1761) married Eunice Stratton in 1700. She was born in 1683/4 and died in 1717.
- John James (1709-1764) married in 1730 Rhoda King (1713-1731).
- John James (1731-1775) in 1763 married Hannah Jacob(s) (1739-1816) of Scituate, MA.
- Charles James, b. 1775, married in 1799, Hannah Clapp (b. 1776); they lived at Scituate and Roxbury, MA.
- Charles William James ( 1800-1873) wed in 1823 Sarah Dexter Hadley (1799-1859) and they lived at Medford, MA.
- Charles Henry James (1824-1888) in 1850 married Sarah B. Hutchins (1833-1918). They lived at Medford, MA, and Shapleigh, ME
- Henry Milton James (1855-1918) of Topsfield and Medford, MA, married Julia Preston James (1847-1924).
- Grace Gertrude James (1889-1936) in 1910 married Ora Russell Martin (1886-1968) of Bernardston, MA.
- Robert J. Martin (b. 1921) in 1943 married Mildred Hammond (b. 1919).
This lineage was submitted in 1981 by Robert J. Martin, who was then living in Glen Burnie, MD.
Window at Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth,MA
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