Rev. Daniel Brewster was born 1668 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York to Nathaniel Brewster (1620-1690) and Sarah Ludlow (1635-1695) and died 15 June 1748 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Anna Jayne (1676-1742) 1693 .
Biography
According to Union Cemetery of Middle Island, NY Biographic Sketches and Notes of Interred Persons:
"BREWSTER, DANIEL, was born in 1687 [sic: 1688] and died 1748 at the age of 61 [81]. He lived on the north east corner of Middle Country Road and Rocky Point Road where he had a farm from 1735 until his death. It is presumed that his is the oldest headstone in the cemetery. He was the Grandson[son] of Reverend Nathaniel Brewster, the first minister of the "Old Town" Church in Setauket in 1655. Daniel was one of three brothers who were among the very first settlers in Middle Island. The hamlet, which had not yet been named, was previously called Middletown and Swezeytown. Brewster worked the farm and raised his family there. He used a portion of his farm as a burial ground for his family, where it is believed 30 members of the Brewster clan were buried. The general store and tavern were owned and operated by John Bailey during the American Revolution. Subsequent owners were Bryant Davis and Orlando Randall. Randall farmed the property aggressively – so much so that he felt the need to remove all the headstones from the Brewster cemetery! He tossed them in a pile to be used as a hedge, where they remained for decades. In 1937, town historian Osborn Shaw located the stones. Using inscriptions and family papers, Shaw was able to ascertain that the first burial was of Daniel Brewster in 1748, making it the oldest burial ground in Middle Island. In 1940, historian Thomas Bayles collected some of the headstones and placed them in the Union Cemetery, a few miles to the west."
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Timothy Brewster (1691-1723) | 1691 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States | 6 January 1723 Suffolk County, New York, United States | |
| Daniel Brewster (1694-1752) | |||
| Hannah Brewster (1698-1761) | |||
| Eunice Brewster (1701-1749) | |||
| Anna Brewster (1702-1739) | 26 June 1702 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States | 16 July 1739 Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States | Ebenezer Gould (1701-1779) |
| John Brewster (1705-1778) | |||
| Mary Brewster (1708-1767) | |||
| Francis Brewster (1709-1768) | |||
| Benjamin Brewster (1713-1782) | |||
| Abigail Brewster (1715-) | |||
| Sarah Brewster (1725-) | |||
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Research Notes
A Tombstone Error?
