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Love Brewster

Male about 1611 - 1650  (~ 39 years)


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  • Name Love Brewster 
    Birth about 1611  Leiden, South Holland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Will 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 
    Death 31 January 1650  Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Love came on the Mayflower with his parents William and Mary Brewster.

      “A passenger of the Mayflower, Love Brewster was admitted freeman of the Colony 2 March 1635/6. He served as a Pequot War volunteer in 1637, and was a member of Capt. Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643. He served on the grand jury from Duxbury 1648, and was also one of the proprietors of Bridgewater.” [1]
    Person ID I6673  Schirado
    Last Modified 26 November 2000 

    Father Elder William Brewster,   b. about 1566, Doncaster, Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 April 1644, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Mother Mary,   b. about 1569   d. 17 April 1627, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Marriage England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4066  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family/Spouse Sarah Collier,   b. about 1616, Southwark, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 April 1691, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Marriage 15 May 1634  Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. Sarah Brewster,   b. about 1635, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. after 1670, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 36 years)
     2. Nathaniel Brewster,   b. about 1637, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. before 11 October 1676, Eastham, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 39 years)
    +3. Dea. William Brewster,   b. about 1644, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 November 1723, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years)
    +4. Wrestling Brewster,   b. about 1645, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 January 1697, Duxbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 52 years)
    Family ID F4769  Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S61] Barbara Lambert Merrick, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996).

    2. [S14] Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman, Plymouth Colony vital records.


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