Hannah (Brewster) Thompson (bef. 1640 - 1687)

Born before 1640 in England

Died 4 Oct 1687 after age 47 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York Colony

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Biography

Name

Hannah _____ (She was NOT a Brewster; see Research Notes below).

Marriage

Hannah married about 1655 to John Thompson. ^[1]

Death

Hannah died at Setauket (Brookhaven), Suffolk, New York on October 4, 1687. ^[1]

Research Notes

Hannah has been disconnected as the daughter of Nathaniel Brewster, for his daughter Hannah married Samuel Thompson.

Countless online genealogies have connected this Hannah to one of the early Brewster families in America. This relationship has been found to be in error. ^[1]

• Thompson's History of Long Island names the wife of John Thompson as Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Brewster, and grand-daughter of Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower. ^[2] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record^[3] and the Genealogy of the Strong Family^[4] both repeat the statement, as does The Family Record.^[5]

• In The Mayflower Descendant^[6] is the following: "Samuel Starr married Hannah ye daughter of Jon'an Brewster, 23rd of December, 1664."^[7] This entry was made by Obadiah Bruen, who was town recorder at the time. Some years later Hannah Brewster's brother-in-law, Daniel Wetherell, was elected recorder, which office he held for many years. If this entry in the town records had been wrong, he would have noticed it. We are not dependent on this record alone for proof that Jonathan Brewster's daughter Hannah did NOT marry John Thompson. ^[1]

• A deed dated February 14, 1661/2 records a conveyance from John Picket and Benjamin Brewster, to their sisters Grace Wetherell and Hannah Brewster. ^[8] In this deed she is called Brewster by her brother and brother-in-law, six years after John Thompson is said to have married her. As she was living in New London in February 1687/8, as Starr's widow, and was in full communion with the first church there at the time of Mr. Saltonstall's ordination on November 25, 1691, it is certain that she was not even a second wife of John Thompson. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Noyes, LaVerne W. Descendants of Reverend William Noyes, Born, England, 1568, in Direct Line... (Chicago, Illinois, 1900) pp. 50-2.
2. ↑ Thompson's History of Long Island, Vol. II, p. 4226.
3. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 22, p. 35.
4. ↑ Dwight, B.W. Genealogy of the Strong Family, pp. 606-7
5. ↑ The Family Record; Devoted for 1897 to the Sackett, the Weygant and the Mapes Families, and to Ancestors of their Intersecting Lines. (Weygant, C.H., Newburgh, New York, 1897) p. 144.
6. ↑ Massachusetts Society. The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. I, p. 226.
7. ↑ New London Town Records, Vol. 1, p. 39.
8. ↑ New London Deeds, Vol. V, p. 7.