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Job Prince Born April 14, 1695 in Scituate, Massachusetts Married Abigail Kimball on December 24, 1719 |
| Captain Job Prince and his wife Abigail had six children, five sons and one daughter. All five sons became ship captains like their father. Job died in 1731, aged just thirty-six, in the British West Indies. |
Ruth Turner Born May 17, 1662 in Scituate, Massachusetts Married Thomas Prince on December 23, 1685 |
| Ruth was first married to Captain Thomas Prince, son of Elder John Prince, a prominent leader in the Pilgrim community at Hull. A Master Mariner and commander of the brig Dolphin, Thomas died in 1696 at age 38 in Barbados, British West Indies. Ruth then married Israel Sylvester, with whom she had the last three of her eight children. She died in 1729 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. |
Mary Brewster Born April 16, 1627 in Plymouth Colony Married John Turner on November 10, 1645 in Plymouth Colony |
| Mary's husband John was the eldest son of Humphrey Turner, a prominent citizen in the town of Scituate, Plymouth Colony. Like his father a tanner by trade, John and Mary settled by the North River in Scituate, near the present-day Union Bridge. Together they had thirteen children, of which Ruth was the tenth. They both died in Scituate in about 1697. |
Jonathan Brewster Born August 12, 1593 in Scrooby, England Married Lucretia Oldham on April 10, 1624 in Plymouth Colony |
| Jonathan was the eldest of William and Mary's five surviving children. Born in England, he emigrated with his family to
Holland in 1608 and remained there with his two sisters, Patience and Fear, when his parents and younger brothers left for America. He sailed to Plymouth Colony with the second wave of Pilgrim settlers aboard The Fortune in November of 1621. Jonathan was a principal figure in the settlement of Duxbury, where he practiced law, served often as the town's deputy, and was a senior member of its church. He was a military commissioner in the Pequot War of 1637, a member of the Duxbury Committee to raise forces in the Narragansett Alarm of 1642, and a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in 1643. He died in New London, Connecticut Colony, in 1659. |
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William Brewster Born about 1566 in Scrooby, England Married Mary (Wentworth?) before 1593 |
| Elder William Brewster was a leader of the Pilgrims, who established Plymouth Colony. In England he studied briefly at Cambridge,
the only Pilgrim Father to have some university training. A member of the local gentry in Scrooby, Yorkshire, he helped organize a separatist religious
congregation in 1606 and financed its move to Holland in 1608. His influence was instrumental in winning the approval of the Virginia Company
for the proposal to resettle the congregation in America, and he was one of the few original Scrooby separatists who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Accompanying him were his wife Mary and two youngest children, sons Love and Wrestling. As the church's ruling elder in Leiden and then in Plymouth, Brewster shared with William Bradford and Edward Winslow in the leadership of the Pilgrim enterprise. He died in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, in 1644. | |
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William Brewster Born about 1535 in Scrooby, England Married Mary Smythe before 1565 |
| William was the estate bailiff at Scrooby Manor, a possession of the Archbishops of York, until his death in about 1590. He had three children by his first wife Prudence, and another - Elder William Brewster - by his second wife Mary. |
William Brewster Born about 1500 in Bently-Cum-Arksey, England Married Maude Man before 1535 |
| William and Maude had two sons. He died sometime after 1537 in Bently-Cum-Arksey. |
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