Justice Nathaniel Brewster Sr. Esq. was born 1689 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States to Timothy Brewster (1658-1747) and Mary Hawkins (1658-1749) . He married Phebe Smith (c1686-1732) 1712 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States.
Research Notes
NATHANIEL BREWSTER was a grandson of the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, and he left behind a few clues as to the particulars of his life and times as follows:
From "Abstracts of Wills" Vol III 1730-1744, p. 86: "Page 428.--William Cosby, Esq., Captain-General and Governor. Whereas, NATHANIEL BREWSTER, ESQ., lately died intestate, Letters of Administration are granted to his wife, Phebe Brewster, and her brother, Obadiah Smith, Esq., December 6, 1732."
SOURCE-Occupation-Burial "Colonial Families of Long Island, NY, and Connecticut", Vols 1,2,3,4, Parts 1 & 2, Herbert Furman Seversmith, M.A., Washington DC, 1939, p. 365:
Nathaniel is "buried in the churchyard of the First church at Setauket...He was a justice of the peace, and appears on a church list in 1719. He was probably also a miller, as he was given permission in May, 1724 to build a grist mill on the Beaver Dam River."
SOURCE-Descendants From "The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine," Donald Lines Jacobus, Box 32, Westville Station, New Haven, CT: #51, Vol XIII, No.3, Jan 1937, p. 154-163.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Nathaniel Brewster (1713-1772) | |||
| Timothy Brewster (1715-1778) | |||
| Anna Brewster (1718-1718) | |||
| Samuel Brewster (1718-1802) | |||
| Henry Brewster (1722-1795) | |||
| Phebe Brewster (1723-1732) | |||
| Sarah Brewster (1730-1762) | |||
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
- Nathaniel Brewster
- Brewster Family
- Brewster in Suffolk County, New York
- Justice Nathaniel Brewster, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Justice-Nathaniel-Brewster-Sr-Esq/6000000004846766913, retrieved 08 Dec 2023