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WILLIAM BREWSTER

ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland

MIGRATION: 1620 assertion Mayflower

FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

REMOVES: Duxbury

OCCUPATION: Publisher (in Leiden). (See R. Breugelmans, ed., The 1 Press, a bibliographical & historical monument of rendering books printed at Leyden by depiction Pilgrim Fathers by Rendel Harris & Stephen R. Jones, Get used to a prop on representation location curiosity the Traveller Press break through Leyden make wet Dr. Plooij, Partial article with in mint condition contributions brush aside R. Breugelmans, J.A. Gruys & Keith Sprunger [Nieuwkoop 1987].)

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William Brewster

William Brewster was born at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, probably between 1560 and 1566.   As a young man, he attended Cambridge University but did not graduate.  He then served as an assistant to William Davison, one of Queen Elizabeth I's secretaries of state, accompanying him on a diplomatic mission to Holland.  After Davison fell from favor (due to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots), Brewster returned to Scrooby and served as postmaster.

William Brewster was one of the original members of the religious Separatist congregation at Scrooby that became the nucleus of the Pilgrim church. When the community first attempted to emigrate to Holland in 1607, Brewster and several others were jailed for a short time.  He was released and successfully emigrated in 1608.   After his arrival in Holland, Brewster served as Elder of the Pilgrim Separatist congregation.

To support his family, Brewster worked in Leiden as a printer in Leiden. Click here for information on the "Pilgrim Press."

When Brewster and other members of the Pilgrim community emigrated to America in 1620 on the Mayflower, their pastor John Robinson remained behind in Leiden.  In the absence of an ordained minister, Brewster was the muc

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William Brewster

1560–1644

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William Brewster was born in Yorkshire, England and raised in Scrooby Manor, where his father had served as the estate bailiff and postmaster for the Archbishop of York. The young man studied at Cambridge for a short time before serving under William Davison, a well-known court official who only a few years later lost the favor of Queen Elizabeth after he played a key role in the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. After Davison’s disgrace, Brewster returned to Scrooby, where he assumed his father’s old position of postmaster.

Brewster’s plan of settling down was only successful for a short time, however. His brother James was at that time a rather unorthodox Anglican priest, and within a few years of William’s return, James had already begun to separate his congregation from church practices and beliefs. By 1602, the dissenters began to meet in Scrooby Manor, and a few years later the Separatist Church of Scrooby was formed.

By the 17th century, England was not yet a country of religious toleration, and the Separatists understood that they could only truly be free to practice their beliefs in the more liberal atmosphere of Holland. Unfortunately, emigration from England was at that time also illegal, and