Brewster, Love
1611 - 1650 (39 years)-
Name Brewster, Love Birth 1611 Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 
- "...probably reflecting the spiritual love of the members of their little community for God and for each other." p.126 Pilgrim A Biography of William Brewster by Mary B. Sherwood
Gender Male Immigration 1620 Arrival Nov 1620 Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America - came with his parents and brother, Wrestling; his other siblings came later via the ship, Anne (1623) and ship, Little James.
Military 1637 Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America - among those from Plymouth who volunteered to serve in the Pequot War, and he was a member of Captain Myles Standish’s Duxbury Company in the military enrollment of 1643.
Residence Abt 1637 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States moved early to Duxtury w/ father's family; he inherited his father's home upon his death Occupation 1643 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States was a grand juryman from Duxbury Possessions 1645 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States one of the proprietors of the extension to Duxbury, afterward known as Bridgewater Death 6 Oct 1650 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Will 11 Oct 1650 Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America _AMTID 122722689656:1030:207924248 _COLOR 19 _FSFTID L5BC-FV2 _UID 9C2E318F11AF4DA1878E8F2C1854CF0E51B7 Person ID I997 Charles Banks and Jon Ray Family Tree Last Modified 1 May 2025
Father Brewster, Reverend Elder of the Pilgrim's Church William IV, b. 24 Jan 1566, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 10 Apr 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 78 years) Mother Wentworth, Mary Love, b. 1569, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England d. 17 Apr 1627, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 58 years) Marriage 1590 Nottinghamshire, England - see "comment" on her page; 6 children: Jonathan, Patience, Fear, Love, Wrestling, & a child buried at St. Pancras in Leiden, Holland
Family ID F333 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Collier, Sarah, b. 30 Apr 1616, London, Middlesex, England d. 26 Apr 1691, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 74 years) Marriage 15 May 1634 Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Children 1. Brewster, Sarah, b. 1635, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. 21 Aug 1691, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 56 years)2. Brewster, Nathaniel, b. 1637, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. 1 Nov 1676, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 39 years)3. Brewster, Wrestling I, b. 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America d. 1 Jan 1696, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age 52 years)4. Brewster, Deacon William, b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States d. 3 Nov 1723, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 77 years)Family ID F336 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Residence - moved early to Duxtury w/ father's family; he inherited his father's home upon his death - Abt 1637 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 
Occupation - was a grand juryman from Duxbury - 1643 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Possessions - one of the proprietors of the extension to Duxbury, afterward known as Bridgewater - 1645 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Death - 6 Oct 1650 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - The last Will and Testament of Love Brewster Deseassed exhibited at the generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March 1650. According to a notebook from Alice Hallock Tuthill, the will was dated Oct 6, 1650 and an inventory of his estate was taken Jan 3.
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
- The last Will and Testament of Love Brewster Deseassed exhibited at the generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March 1650. According to a notebook from Alice Hallock Tuthill, the will was dated Oct 6, 1650 and an inventory of his estate was taken Jan 3.