Love Brewster (abt. 1614 - bef. 1651)

Born about 1614 in Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Collier) Parke — married 15 May 1634 (to 1650) in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, New England

Descendants

Died before 31 Jan 1651 before about age 37 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Love Brewster was the paternal seventh great grandfather of Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, who was married to Dwight Eisenhower the 34th President of the United States.

Love Brewster, son of William and Mary Brewster, was born between 1612 and 1614, probably in Holland.^[1] He came to New England on the Mayflower with his parents. ^[2] 15 May 1611^{[citation needed]}

The father William Brewster died intestate April 10, 1644, and brothers Jonathan and Love were appointed administrators. In Aug. 1645, in the division of his estate, Love was granted 43 acres at Duxbury. (p. 228)^[3]

• 1627: In the Plymouth cattle division, William, Love and Wrestling Brewster are among the names the fifth company. ^[3]
• 1637: Love Brewster listed as soldier of Plymouth. (p. 30)^[4]
• 1637: One of the men appointed to set out the highways about Plymouth, Duxbury and the Eele River. (p. 10^[5]
• 1643: Aug. : Love Brewster among the men raised by the town to bear arms, in preparation for Indian attacks. (p. 93) ^[5]
• 1646: Freeman at Duxbury. (p. 85) ^[5]

Love married Sarah Collier on May 15, 1634 at Plymouth, MA.^[6] Sarah, daughter of William and Jane (Clark) Collier was baptized on April 30, 1616 at St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey. (p. 448)^{[3] [5]} After 1656, his widow Sarah married Richard Park/Parke. (p. 362) ^[3]

Love Brewster died about 1651, his will dated Oct. 1, 1650. ^[5] In it he names:

• Wife Sarah
• Children: eldest son Nathaniel, second son William, youngest son Wrestling and Sarah ^[7][8]

Will

Will of Love Brewster, Oct. 6, 1650:^[9]

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

Research Notes

• There is in Leiden a baptism 15 May 1611 for Lea Brever^[10] which it appears has been picked up by Find A Grave and others as the baptism of Love. However, the parents of this child were Jan and Prinne.

• In Love Brewster's will, he stated that Nathaniel Brewster was his eldest son, (as said on the profile here), but William Brewster was his second son, which this profile does not say. This would make Wrestling Brewster the youngest son, and the placement of Sarah uncertain.

Sources

1. ↑ Merrick, Barbara Lambert. Mayflower Families through Five Generations. Volume Twenty-Four The Descendants of Elder William Brewster Part 1. (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014.)
2. ↑ Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History. "Love Brewster"] http://mayflowerhistory.com/brewster-love/
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Anderson, Robert Charles: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS, Boston, MA, 1995, (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)(p. 227-230)
4. ↑ Plymouth Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775; (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, by Justin Winsor, Crosby & Nichols, Boston, MA, 1849
6. ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 1, 1633-1640, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image of p. 30 available Archive.org.
7. ↑ The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907 a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the Mayflower, by Emma C. Brewster Jones, Grafton Press, New York, 1908
8. ↑ The Plymouth Colony Archive Project: Last Will & Testament of Love Brewster, 1650/1651 http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/lbrewsterwill.html
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 99 of 616; State Archives, Boston. "Last Will and Testament of Love Brewster," 10/6/1650, "Wills 1633-1686 vol. 1-4"
10. ↑ Erfgoed Leiden in Leiden (Netherlands), Church records baptisms Dopen Waalse Kerk, Part: 270, Period: 1599-1627, Leiden, archive 1004, inventory number 270, May 15, 1611, Dopen Vrouwekerk 1599 - 29 juli 1627.

See also:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Brewster

• Merrick, Barbara Lambert, and edited by Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster Part 1, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA., 2014

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3, p. 1309-1310)

• The Brewster Genealogy

• Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856) p. 447 (6) M. William Brewster; Mary, his wife; with 2, sons, whose names were Love & Wrasling; and a boy was put 6. to him called Richard More; and another of his brothers. The rest of his childeren were left behind, & came over afterwards." p. 451 "(4) M. Brewster lived to very old age; about 80 years he was when he dyed, having lived some 23, or 24 years here in y” countrie; & though his wife dyed long before, yet she dyed aged. His sone Wrastle dyed a yonge man unmaried; his sone Love lived till this year 1650. and dyed, & left 4. children, now living. His doughters which came over after him are dead, but have left sundry children alive; his eldst sone is still liveing, and hath 9. or 10, children; one maried, who hath a child or 2."

• Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Of Plimoth Plantation: manuscript, 1630-1650. State Library of Massachusetts "List of Mayflower Passengers." In Bradford's Hand.