![]() ![]() was appointed by the Archbishop of York as the receiver and bailiff of Scrooby Manor on 4 January 1575. ![]() The family lived at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, when William, Sr. William Brewster, was the son of William and Mary (Smith) (Simkinson) Brewster, born probably at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, between June 1566 and June 1567. Both sisters would die 10 years later during the 1633 epidemic that swept through Plymouth resulting in many deaths. The Brewsters left three children behind in Holland, Jonathan, Patience and Fear, however Jonathan arrived in Plymouth a year later on the Fortune in 1621, and sisters Patience and Fear arrived on the Anne in 1623. Also with the family was four year old Maria/Mary Moore whose sister Ellen and brothers Richard and Jasper More had been placed with families making the voyage brother Richard was the only child who survived. William Brewster was accompanied on the Mayflower by his wife, Mary, and sons Love and Wrestling. ![]()
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