Person:Daniel Brewer (5)

Named in father's will ( "Abstracts of Early Wills" NEHGR V ol 7 pp 170 - 171:

Daniel Brewer of Roxbury - 12:11:1645. Husbandman. Unto wife, Joanna, my dwelling howse with the buildings, reserving one chamber, & halfe the barne, and halfe the other outhouses, wch I give unto my sonne Daniell, soe longe as he shall remaine unmaried. Unto wife myhome lott, five acres more or lesse; also sufficient T;ymber for repations of the buildings & fences fo her to sell & fetch off from my sonn Daniell's lands hereafter given to him, and sufficient ffier wood. Unto my sonn Daniell two Oxen, one Steere Calfe, wth one Carte & Plowe, wth the furniture thereunto belonging, and six accres of Land lying neere the greate Lotts, And Sixe accres of swamps ground, wth the wood thereupon, lying neere unto the howse of Edward Bridge, and forty accres, more or lesse, lyin in two p cells, sixteene accres thereof lying neere my meadow at Stony river, the other pte beiond Rocky swampe, neare the greate Meade; all my mowing ground, fresh & salt, containing flower acres & a halfe lying in two p cells; also my best Bed & bedstodd, furnished, and my Iron pott after his mothers decease, he paying these legacies hereafter mentioned; to sonn Nathaniel, Tenn poundes; to my dau. Ann, tenn poundes; dau Joannna, five; dau Sarah five; to be paid in Cattell or Corne; one third pte of each within one yeare after the death of their mother; one third pte the yeare next enesueing; the last third pte the next year after that. If any of my dau dy before the dayes of payment, the surviving dau to enjoy their pte. Unto wife sufficient hey, fresh & salt, for the keeping of three Cowes and the plowing & soweing of the said home lott, she finding seed & halfe the dunge, & the bringing in of herr corne into the barne; also sufficnet Wood for fiering. Legacies to be paid by sonn Daniell. Also fower foundes & Tenn shillings to John Watson, when it is due, it being for his two oxen before mentioned. Unto sons Daniel, my houwse with all the buildings and the home lott with a Table & a Cupboard, after my wifes decease. To my daus at day of marriage or after my wives decease, these legacies: to dau Ann a flock bed furnished, & my biggest Chest, one little Iron pott, & one pewter dish; to dau Joanna, my great kettle, & my next great chest, one flock bed furnished, & a pewter dish; to dau Sara a flock bed furnished, my new kettle, & a pewter dish; Unto wife, my three Cowes, and my Redd Sgteere, and all my Swine. The residue of my goodes to mywife, whom I make my executrix. I heartily intreate myloving brethren in Chris, Isaac Morrell and Edward Bridge, to be Overseers of this mylast will. It is my will that my sonn Daniell, shall not onely plowe his mother's ground sufficiently & well for her seed, but shall also Cutt downe & abring in her corne, & her fier wood to her howse, & lay out the dung all of it if he keeps his owne Cattell ese where. Witnesse heereunto Willm Denyson. the marke ____ ) of Edward Bridge. Proved by Wm Denison & Edward Bridge 20 (3) 1647 William Aspinwall V. Record.

The humble petition of some of the people that lyve under the Jurisdiction of the massachusets government, unto our honored Magistrats this 5th day of march 1672 \ Sheweth

    That whereas it hath pleased our ever honored Magistrats to send their letters to the Churches to move us to a liberal contributtion to the Colledge. and inone of those leters declared that ifr any of the good people have any ojecsion you give us leave to propose it, and also are pleased to promise us, to adde your indeavor to remove the same.  We take the boldnesse to propose an objecsion not with any; intent to shorten either our owne or others hands to so good and pius a work, as we trust we shll make it appeare by our actions.  but our only scope is, to indevor the removal of an evyl (as it appereth to us) in the educasion of y;outh at the College.  and that is, that they are brought up in such pride as doth no wayes become such as are brought up for the holy service of the lord, either in the Magistracy, or ministry especialy, and in perticular in their long haire, which last first tooke had, and broke out at the Colledg so as we understand and remember.  and now it is got into our pulpets, to the great greife and ffeare of many godly hears in the Country.
  we find in the scriptures that the sons of the prophets, and such as were dedicated to god, were brought up in a way of mortification and humility.  we beseech you to consider amos. 2.11.12  I raised up of your sons to be prohets and of your y;oung men to be Nazariets, is it not even thus o ye children ofr Israel saith the lord, but he have given the nazarites wine to drink.  Consider also pro. 16.31 the hoary head is a crowne og glory if it be found in the way of righteousness and are those haires so found, that are defiled with this lust?  we beseech you consider wether all other lusts which have so incorigibly brake in upon ouryouth have not first sprung from the incorrigablenessse of this lust.   our humble request is that you would please to use all due indeavours to cure this evyl. and so we coomend you to thelord and to the word of his grace and remains yourumble peocinors attthethron of grac to assest and in able you in all your Weighty consarns and remain   your Worships humble petitioners.

(The list of petitioners includes names of John Eliot, Daniel Bruer, and Edward Bridge)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
2.   Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926).