- 1688-1711: Town clerk for Brookhaven, New York
Timothy Brewster was born 1658 in Norfolk, England, United States to Nathaniel Brewster (1620-1690) and Sarah Ludlow (1635-1695) and died 1743 Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Mary Hawkins (1658-1749) 1711 in Suffolk County, New York, United States.
Town Clerk of Brookhaven, Suffolk NY.
Vital Stats
- Son of Rev Nathaniel Brewster (1620-1690) and Sarah Ludlow (1625-1665)
- 1658-1660 : Birth in England
- 1711 : Marriage to Mary Hawkins (1658-1749)
- 1743 : Died in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
Research Notes
Town Clerk, Assessor and Justice for Brookhaven, New York for 1688 to 1721.
SOURCE: GENEALOGIES OF CONNECTICUT FAMILIES, NEHGS, Vol. I, p. 220, cites the following proof:
"THE PARENTAGE OF REV. NATHANIEL BREWSTER, of BROOKHAVEN (Setauket), Long Island, N.Y.--In the old New Haven land records (volume 3, page 13), preserved in the new Hall of Records at New Haven, Conn., is recorded a deed dated 17 Jun 1707, a part of which reads:
Be it known to all persons before whom these p'sents shall come, greeting, that I Timothy Bruster, grandson and heir of mr. franciss Brewster a former inhabitant and Setler of newhaven, of ye town of brookhaven in the County of Suffolk in ye province of New York, yeoman, have given granted bargained sold alienated confirmed and clearly made over and so by these p'sents give grant...all ye right title interest yt has or shall appertain to my aforesaid grandfather brewstr wthin ye bounds of New Haven unto Joseph Tuttle and Richd Miles..."
Note following above in source:
"As Timothy Brewster was the son of the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, A.B. (Harvard, 1642), first minister of Setauket, this deed presents conclusive proof that Francis Brewster of New Haven was the father of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster. Signed by: Alpheus Winter, Bridgeport, Conn. He was married to Mary HAWKINS in 1685 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY.
- 797. Mary HAWKINS was born about 1658 in Setauket, Suffolk, NY. She died after 1749 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY. She has reference number L1A1X0. SOURCE: A Hawkins Genealogy, p. 12
- Mentioned in father's will as the "mother of Nathaniel Brewster"
- Died after 1749 as she is metioned in the Brookhaven Town Assessment List of 1749.
Burial Place
"The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine", Volume XII, p. 157, states that Timothy "was Town Clerk of Brookhaven from 1688 to 1711, and died there between 1741 and 1749. Timothy was also Town Assessor and a Justice from 1716 to 1721. He and his wife, Mary Hawkins, are buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard in Setauket. However, their tombstones can no longer be read."
Family & Marriage
All children were born in Brookhaven, Suffolk Co, NY:
- Nathaniel Brewster (1689-1732) -
- Timothy Brewster (1691-1723) - Witnessed a deed 30 Jan 1717; his earmark was recorded 6 Jan 1723, and crossed off in 1733, the name of Joseph being substituted. Probably Timoth died unmarried and his brother Joseph took his earmark.
- Mary Brewster (1695-1761) - born in 1695 - m. Joshua Wells
- Sarah Ludlow Brewster (1701-1773)
- Abigail Brewster (1703-1773)
- Dinah Brewster (1706-)
- Joseph Brewster (1709-1760)
Children
Siblings
Notable Ancestors
Ludlow Family Ancestry
His mother, Sarah Ludlow, is the daughter of Roger Ludlow (1590-1664), 1st lt Gov for Colonial Governors of Connecticut. See Ludlow Family Ancestry.
A direct descendant of the Ludlow Family ( 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
- Timothy Brewster
- Brewster Family
- Brewster in Suffolk County, New York
- Justice Timothy Brewster St., Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Justice-Timothy-Brewster-Sr/6000000003937778071, retrieved 08 Oct 2023