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.
Early New England Settler
Vital Stats
- Daughter of Timothy Brewster (1658-1747) and Mary Hawkins (1658-1749)
- 1695 : Birth in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
- 1711 : Marriage to Joshua Wells (1690-1761)
- 1761 : Died
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
- Mary WELLS was born ABT 1713 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.
- 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.
- Timothy Wells (1719-1782) - was born 1719 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 16 JAN 1782. He married Martha TERRY.
- David WELLS was born ABT 1721 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.
- Deliverance WELLS was born ABT 1722 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 1760.
- Hannah WELLS was born 5 JAN 1723 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 11 NOV 1753.
- ABIGAIL WELLS was born 1727 in Southold, Suffolk, New York. She married Simon BENJAMIN 1747.
- John WELLS was born 1728 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 15 DEC 1797. He married Mary 2 NOV 1751.
- Sarah Wells (1732-1820) - Sarah WELLS was born ABT 1731 in Southold, Suffolk, New York, and died 11 DEC 1820 in NY.
- Deborah WELLS was born ABT 1735 in Southold, Suffolk, New York.
Children
Siblings
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
- Mary Brewster
- Brewster Family
- Brewster in Suffolk County, New York
- Wells in Suffolk County, New York
- Joshua Wells Family Ancestry
- Mary Brewster, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Brewster/6000000004846770439, retrieved 08 Dec 2023