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Patience Brewster was the daughter of William Brewster and his wife Mary.[1][2] She was likely to have been born in her parent's home, Scrooby Manor, at Nottinghamshire, England [3] no later than 1600, as she witnessed the betrothal banns of Anna Crackstone and Thomas Smith in Leyden, Holland on 7 December 1618[4] and could have no longer been a minor at that time.[5]
She arrived in Plymouth aboard the Anne around 10 July 1623 accompanied by her sister Fear and Lucretia Oldham, who would later become her sister-in-law.[6][1] By the terms of the 1623 Division of Land, Patience received one acre of land "whose corner was by the pond."[7] A letter written 20 December 1623 to Elder William Brewster from John Robinson noted the arrival of Patience and her sister at Plymouth, expressing his hope that "Mrs. Brewster's weak and decayed state of Body will haue some Repairing by the coming of her daughters."[8]
The following year, on 5 August 1624, Patience Brewster married Thomas Prence.[1][9] Prence, along with his father-in-law William Brewster and brother-in-law Isaac Allerton, became a prominent business leader in the Plymouth Colony.[10] He also became highly involved in the political affairs of the colony and on 1 January 1633/4, at the age of 34, was elected as the fourth governor of Plymouth Colony.[11]
There were four children from this marriage:[12]
Patience died sometime before12 December 1634, when Massachusett's Governor John Winthrop, writing to his son in England, mentioned that "...the pestilent feaver hath taken away some at Plimouth among others mr Prence the Govern wife and mr Allertons wife."[15] In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the New England area. [16] Patience (Brewster) Prence was buried on Burial Hill at Plymouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
mtDNA Results I4a The Mayflower DNA Project currently lists one matrilineal (all female line) descendant of Mary (through her daughter Patience) and states this individual falls under Haplogroup I4a. This is a relatively rare haplogroup and has been found in England & Scotland and occasionally in Finistère, Brittany, France. It supports the belief that Mary was likely from either Yorkshire or Nottinghamshire (both in northern England).
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I commented on this since Philbrick was listed here as a source. I only noticed this because I am a descendant of William Brewster, through both his daughter Patience and son Johnathan, and had recently reviewed the details of the family.
edited by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Ship Anne, William Peirce, Master, brought 60 passengers, entire company settled at Plymouth; p 55, Abigail Warren, Mary Becket, Patience Brewster, Fear Brewster, Mrs. Barbara Standish wife of Myles, Thomas Southworth, William Palmer, Jr. son of William of the Fortune. Page 54, Lucretia Oldham