Person:John Brewer (39)

From NEHGR 30:424-426

"Savage says that John Brewer was of Cambridge and had John in 1652; then went to Sudbury probably, as as a farther surmise gives him a wife, Mary Whitmore of Essex county. This is clearly wrong ... At all events our Ipswich John Brewer is clearly traced, and there is no sign of his having had two wives or of his living in Cambridge."

"... it seems that his will, dated 14 Jun 1684, presented 30 Sept. following, is in Essex Wills, iv. 100-4. He is termed JOHN BREWER, Sen., of Ipswich, and mentions wife Mary, father Brewer of Hamton, grandchild Edward Chapman, other gr. ch. John Chapman; residuary legatees, son John Bruer and dau. Mary Chapman. Overseers, borther Thomas Lull and Simeon Stace; wife Mary, executrix."

"It is thus not only shown that John Brewer, Sen., of Ipswich, was not the Sudbury man, but it is made evident that he had a father living in Hampton. Mr. Joseph Dow of that town has given me some facts which enable me to make a probable pedigree. Our Boston records (see Register, xi. 202) say that "William Lane was married to Mary Brewer, the daughter of Thomas Brewer of Roxbury, 21 : 6 : 56:" i.e., Aug. 21, 1656. Now, 29 Nov. 1657, at Hampton, N. H., were married Sarah Brewer and Thomas Webster; and at Hampton the record says "old goodman Brewer dyed 23 March 1690" (the year being 1689-90, as other entries show)."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Erikson, Dorothy Brewer, and Jane Fletcher Fiske. Descendants of Thomas Brewer, Connecticut to Maine: 1682-1996 with allied families. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1996)
   536.

   John² Brewer, born ca. 1627; died at Ipswich 23 June 1684; married at Ipswich, 23 October 1647, Mary Whitmore of Lynn.

2. ↑ Whitmore, William H. Gleanings: John Brewer of Ipswich. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1876)
   Vol 30, page 425.

   John2 Brewer, Sen., of Ipswich, m. Mary (Whitmore); "J. B. who deceased the 22 June, 1684"