Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907 (1908), vol. 1

A compiled genealogy of the descendants of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower, read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md, October 2026). It quotes the family register kept by Jonathan Brewster (the “Brewster Book”) and Lucy Hall Greenlaw’s summary in NEHGR 53:109-112.

• Elder William Brewster (pp. 3-6): “born during the last half of the year 1566 or the first half of 1567. The date of his birth is determined by an affidavit made at Leyden, June 25, 1609, in which he, his wife Mary and son Jonathan declare their ages to be respectively 42, 40 and 16 years.” He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 3 Dec 1580; served William Davison, Secretary of State, on his embassy to the Netherlands in 1585; succeeded his father as “Post” at Scrooby (1590-1607), where the Pilgrim church met in the manor house; was “ye cheefe of those that were taken at Boston” in 1607 (Bradford); at Leyden taught and kept a printing press; came in the Mayflower with his wife Mary and two young sons; at Plymouth “he taught twise euery saboth.” Mary, “whose maiden name has not been discovered,” died at Plymouth on 17 April [1627] (the book prints 1637, but the division of cattle of 22 May 1627 came “a month after the death of the Elder’s wife”); the Elder “dyed at Plymouth in New England the 10th of Aprill, 1644” (Brewster Book). His father was William Brewster, receiver and bailiff of Scrooby manor and postmaster, who died in 1590.
• Jonathan Brewster (pp. 6, 11-14): “was borne at Scroby in Nottinghamshyre, the 12th of August 1593” and “was the first borne of his father.” He came in the Fortune in November 1621 and “marryed Lucretia Oldham, of Darby, the 10th Aprill, 1624.” Deputy for Duxbury; a military commissioner in the Pequot War, 1637; removed to New London about 1649, where Uncas deeded him the trading place called Brewster’s Neck (25 April 1650); deputy to the Connecticut General Court. He died 7 Aug 1659 and was buried at Brewster’s Neck, Preston; Lucretia died 4 March 1678/9. In 1661/2 John Pickett reserved maintenance for “my mother-in-law, Mrs. Brewster, the late wife of my father, Mr. Jonathan Brewster.” Caulkins: Mrs. Lucretia Brewster was “an attendant upon the sick and dying as nurse, doctress, or midwife.”
• Ruth Brewster (p. 17): “b. Oct. 3, 1631; d. at New London, Conn., May 1, 1677 (Apr. 30, N. L. Town Rec.); m. 1st, March 14, 1651, John Pickett, of New London, who ‘dyed at Sea returning from Barbadoes,’ Aug. 16, 1667 (N. L. T. Rec.); m. 2d, July 2, 1668 (July 16, N. L. T. Rec.), Charles Hill … ‘Mr. Pickett’s estate was appraised at £1140. This was sufficient to rank him, at that period, as one of the wealthiest merchants of the place.’” Jonathan’s children i-iii were born at Plymouth, iv (Ruth) at Jones River.
• Ruth Pickett (p. 17): “d. Sept. 14, 1690, aged 36 (g. s. at Old Lyme); m. Rev. Moses Noyes, the first minister of Lyme, Conn., son of Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Noyes, of Newbury, Mass., b. at N. Dec. 6, 1643; d. at L. Nov. 10, 1729.”