Joseph Brewster, Sr. was born 9 August 1709 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States to Timothy Brewster (1658-1747) and Mary Hawkins (1658-1749) and died 11 January 1760 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Ruth Mary Briscoe (1709-1778) 1734 in New York, United States.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Ruth Brewster (1734-1787) | |||
| Joseph Brewster (1735-1818) | |||
| Mary Brewster (1737-1787) | |||
| Asnath Brewster (1738-1761) | |||
| Deborah Brewster (1741-1832) | |||
| Sarah Brewster (1746-1784) | |||
Siblings
Residences
Notable Ancestors
Ludlow Family Ancestry
A direct descendant of the Ludlow Family ( TBrewster, SLudlow, ...) This family has connections to several notable lines of early European ancestry including the following:
- Roger Ludlow (1590-1664) - Notable early English immigrant. co-founder of Colony of Connecticut, and author of its earliest legal codes.
- Edward I of England (1239-1307) - King of England, m. Eleanor of Castile (1202-1244) - See Plantagenet Family Line for a continuation of his ancestry.
- William I, King of England (1027-1087) - (aka: William the Conqueror) - In 1066 became first Norman king of England.
- Emporer Charlemagne (747-814) - King of the Franks and from 800 the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
Brewster Family Ancestry
- Nathaniel Brewster (1620-1690) - A member of the first graduating class of Harvard University (1642), he became a minister of the church in Ireland where he married Sarah Ludlow (1635-1695), a daughter of Roger Ludlow. They then sailed back to America where he served a long time as minister of the church in Setauket and Brookhaven on Long Island, New York
- Tenth Generation of Brewsters
- Brewster Family of Long Island
- A Hawkins Genealogy, 1635-1939, by Ralph Clymer Hawkins, Gateway Press, 1987. (Copy in possession of Sara Leslie Griffith), p. 12.
- GENEALOGIES OF CONNECTICUT FAMILIES, NEHGS, Vol. I, p. 220
- The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe' with introduction and notes by Alfred Seelye Roe, a great grandson, privately published, the Blanchard Press, 1904
- THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, Vol. XIII, No. 3, p. 159 "The Family of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster" by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn.
See Also
- Joseph Brewster
- Brewster Family
- Brewster in Suffolk County, New York