Love Brewster
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| Name | Love Brewster |
| Birth date | c. 1611 |
| Birth place | Leiden, County Holland |
| Death date | 1651/1650s |
| Death place | Plymouth Colony |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Colonist, landholder |
| Spouse | Sarah Collier |
| Parents | William Brewster, Mary Brewster |
| Known for | Early Plymouth Colony settler |
Love Brewster was an early settler of the Plymouth Colony who arrived in North America as part of the second generation of the Mayflower community. Son of William Brewster (Mayflower elder) and Mary Brewster, he grew up amid the religious and political upheavals involving the Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) in Leiden and later the English settlements in New England. His life intersected with key figures and institutions of early colonial America, including land grants, local magistrates, and the expansion of Plymouth Colony into present-day Massachusetts and Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Early life and family
Love Brewster was born around 1611 in Leiden during his parents' exile from England following conflicts tied to the Church of England and the broader English Reformation. He was the son of William Brewster (Mayflower elder), a leader among the Separatists (Pilgrims), and Mary Brewster, connecting him to networks that included the Mayflower Compact signatories and the passenger lists of the Mayflower (ship). His siblings included Jonathan Brewster, Patience Brewster, Fear Brewster, Elder Brewster (son) not linked, and Brewster family connections with other colonial families like the Winslow family and Myles Standish allies. The Brewster household in Plymouth Colony maintained ties to community leaders such as Edward Winslow, William Bradford, and John Alden through marriage, land, and civic affairs.
Plymouth Colony and adult life
As an adult, Love Brewster participated in the civic life of Plymouth Colony, living under the jurisdiction and laws that evolved from the Mayflower Compact toward colonial governance involving figures like William Bradford and institutions such as the Plymouth Court. He witnessed interactions between colonists and Indigenous leaders including Massasoit of the Wampanoag and contemporary negotiations that involved settlers like John Carver and Miles Standish. His lifetime overlapped with events and processes including colonial expansion into areas later known as Duxbury, Massachusetts, Eastham, Massachusetts, and coastal settlements linked to maritime commerce involving ports like Boston and Salem, Massachusetts. Love Brewster’s experience reflected broader transatlantic connections among English settlers, the influence of Puritan and Separatist beliefs, and the colony’s legal frameworks shaped by magistrates such as Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence.
Land holdings and occupations
Love Brewster received land allocations typical of early Plymouth freemen and proprietors, participating in the distribution systems administered by the Plymouth Court and overseen by leaders including William Bradford and Edward Winslow. His property interests placed him within the web of colonial land transactions involving neighboring proprietors like Josiah Winslow, Phineas Pratt, and families such as the Alden family. He engaged in agrarian pursuits common to settlers in Barnstable County, Massachusetts and likely took part in coastal activities connected to fisheries near Cape Cod and trade touching ports like Newport, Rhode Island and Providence, Rhode Island. His holdings intersected with patterns of settlement expansion that brought settlers into contact with proprietorship disputes and surveying efforts also involving figures linked to Massachusetts Bay Colony governance.
Marriage and descendants
Love Brewster married Sarah Collier (also recorded as Sarah) and the couple established a household that produced descendants who intermarried with prominent colonial families, creating kinship ties to lineages such as the Winslow family, Alden family, and other Plymouth Colony households. His children and descendants appear in town records, probate inventories, and land deeds alongside names like Constant Southworth, Samuel Fuller (physician), and other contemporaries whose families became part of New England genealogical networks. Descendants of the Brewster line spread through colonial New England counties, intersecting with migration patterns to places like Kingston, Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and later colonial communities in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Death and legacy
Love Brewster died in the early 1650s in Plymouth Colony, leaving estate matters to local magistrates and relatives with settlement overseen by community figures tied to the Plymouth Court. His death occurred during a period of consolidation for the colony as leaders such as William Bradford and Edward Winslow managed succession and land redistribution. The Brewster family legacy persisted through genealogical interest, inclusion in histories of the Mayflower passengers, and commemorations involving historic sites in Plymouth, Massachusetts and Plimoth Plantation. Scholars and genealogists tracing early New England settler networks link the Brewster lineage to broader narratives involving families like the Bradford family, Standish family, and the civic life of early Massachusetts towns.
Category:People of Plymouth Colony Category:Mayflower passengers Category:17th-century English people