Sarah (Brewster) Smith (abt. 1648 - 1743)

Born about 1648 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York Colony, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Smith — married 1673 in Smithtown, Suffolk, New York

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1743 at about age 95 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York Colony, British Colonial America

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Biography

Sarah Brewster was born about 1648 in Smithtown, New York. Her parents were Nathaniel Brewster and Abigail Reymes. She married Jonathan Smith about 1673 in Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. Sarah Smith passed away 2 Feb 1743, in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. She's buried in the Smith Family Graveyard, Nissequogue, Suffolk County, New York.

Sources

• Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith 1939. Page 364, Vol.1. This has great detail about the Brewsters and gives information about Sarah Brewster.

Settler's by the Long Grey Trail by J. Houston Harrison (JOSEPH K. RUEBUSH COMPANY PUBLISHERS, DAYTON, VIRGINIA 193Ï) provides solid circumstantial evidence that Abigail Smith was Jonathan Smith's daughter and also states that Jonathan Smith was married to Sarah Brewster (see page 37).

• Records of the Town of Smithtown at Page 464 states that Jonathan Smith, Richard Smith's eldest son, married Sarah Brewster.

• History of Long Island from Discovery to Settlement by Benjamin F. Thompson 1918 (first edition 1843) states on page 375, vol 3, that "Jonathan [Smith] married Sarah Brewster; issue Jonathan and Deborah . . ."

• History of Long Island at page 368 identifies Nathaniel Brewster as a witness in support of litigation over land ownership advanced by Richard "Bull" Smith, Jonathan Smiths' father, which demonstrates that Richard Smith and Nathaniel Brewster knew each other and provides some corroborating evidence, given that family connections are common when land ownership is involved, that Nathaniel Brewster was Sarah Brewster's father.

• Records of the Town of Brookhaven With signatures of Nathaniel and Sarah Brewster on a Nov 1673 document as witnesses.

• Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907, Emma C. Brewster Jones, 1908, page 40.

• Long Island genealogy Brewster

• Smith Official DNA and One Name Study

• Smiths Worldwide

• Find a Grave

• Geneanet

• Geni.com profile

• Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999; Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.