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Mary Brewster Wells was born 1695 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States to Timothy Brewster (1658-1747) and Mary Hawkins (1658-1749) and died 1761 of unspecified causes. She married Joshua Wells (1690-1761) 1715 in Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Biography

Mary Brewster was born 1695 in Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, and died 31 MAR 1761 in Southold, Suffolk, New York. She married Joshua WELLS 1711 in Long Island, NY, son of Joshua WELLS and Hannah TUTHILL. He was born 26 SEP 1691 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 9 APR 1761 in Southold, Suffolk, NY. She married Joshua WELLS JUN 1715 in Southold, Suffolk, NY. (Husband and wife died only 10 days apart?)

Granddaughter of Rev Nathaniel Brewster. Mary's parents married in 1685 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY

Mary HAWKINS was born about 1658 in Setauket, Suffolk, NY. She died after 1749 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY. SOURCE: A Hawkins Genealogy, p. 12

Family

  1. Mary WELLS was born ABT 1713 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.
  2. Joshua Wells III (1716-1787) was born ABT 1716 in Southold, Suffolk, NY, was christened 1716 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 26 FEB 1787.
  3. Timothy Wells (1719-1782) - was born 1719 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 16 JAN 1782. He married Martha TERRY.
  4. David WELLS was born ABT 1721 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.
  5. Deliverance WELLS was born ABT 1722 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 1760.
  6. Hannah WELLS was born 5 JAN 1723 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 11 NOV 1753.
  7. ABIGAIL WELLS was born 1727 in Southold, Suffolk, New York. She married Simon BENJAMIN 1747.
  8. John WELLS was born 1728 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 15 DEC 1797. He married Mary 2 NOV 1751.
  9. Sarah Wells (1732-1820) - Sarah WELLS was born ABT 1731 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 11 DEC 1820 in NY.
  10. Deborah WELLS was born ABT 1735 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.




Children


Offspring of Joshua Wells (1690-1761) and Mary Brewster Wells
Name Birth Death Joined with
Mary Wells (1715-1749) 1715 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 1749 Cutchogue, Suffolk County, New York, United States Garshom Terry (1709-1788)
Joshua Wells (1716-1787) 1716 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 26 February 1787 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States Hannah Wells (1718-1748)
Mary Reeve (1712-1782)
Timothy Wells (1719-1782) 1719 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 16 January 1782 Aquebogue, Suffolk County, New York, United States Martha Terry (1722-1796)
David Wells (1721-1811) 1721 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 1811
Deliverance Wells (1725-1760) 1725 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 1760
Hannah Wells (1723-1753) 5 January 1723 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 11 November 1753 Benjamin Wells (1721-1800)
Abigail Wells (1726-1784) 1726 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 28 December 1784 Orient, Suffolk County, New York, United States Simeon Benjamin (1720-1761)
Benjamin Brown (1722-1774)
John Wells (1728-1797) 1728 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 15 December 1797 Cutchogue, Suffolk County, New York, United States Mary Wells (1734-1805)
Sarah Wells (1732-1820) 1732 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 11 December 1820 Speonk, Suffolk County, New York, United States John Tuthill (1728-1805)
Deborah Wells (1735-1805) 1735 Southold, Suffolk County, New York, United States 1805



Siblings


Offspring of Timothy Brewster (1658-1747) and Mary Hawkins (1658-1749)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Nathaniel Brewster (1689-1732) 1689 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States Phebe Smith (c1686-1732)
Timothy Brewster (1691-1723) 1691 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States 6 January 1723 Suffolk County, New York, United States
Mary Brewster (1695-1761) 1695 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States 1761 Joshua Wells (1690-1761)
Sarah Ludlow Brewster (1701-1773) February 1701 Long Island, New York, United States 7 May 1773 Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Joseph Douglas Hawkins (1697-1767)
Abigail Brewster (1703-1773) 1703 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States 15 December 1773 Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Timothy Johnson (1693-1796)
Dinah Brewster (1706-) 1706 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States
Joseph Brewster (1709-1760) 9 August 1709 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States 11 January 1760 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States Ruth Mary Briscoe (1709-1778)


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:

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.

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