Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster : ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620 . oples ears,This temple for a sepulchre he holy prayers shall be his thou aught else to represent his fame ?Take the strange bird, that from his funeral flame,With life and youth renewed, is said to fly,For emblem of its immortality. 38 LIFE AND TIME OF ELDER BREWSTER. Sable side, and the name of William generally kept up,to the present time, now more than 300 it is the present Cardinal Bre
Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster : ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620 . oples ears,This temple for a sepulchre he holy prayers shall be his thou aught else to represent his fame ?Take the strange bird, that from his funeral flame,With life and youth renewed, is said to fly,For emblem of its immortality. 38 LIFE AND TIME OF ELDER BREWSTER. Sable side, and the name of William generally kept up,to the present time, now more than 300 it is the present Cardinal Brewster, Esq., ofHalstead, Essex.^ Both the Wren-tham and Heding-ham branches werefamilies of the same•coat-armor, bearinga chevron erminebetween three silveretoiles, on a sablefield, viz: stars break-ing through thedarkness of our William Brewster was most probablyof this connection, seems to be indicated by thefact that an old copy of the smne coaUof-arms (andit appears to be a very old copy) has been preservedfrom time immemorial in one branch of the Brew-ster family in this country.^ Other indications, inaddition to something of tradition, favoring the. ^ Burkes Landed Gentry ofEngland and Ireland, 2 vols., Lon-don. Articles, Brewsters of Wren-tham and Hediugliam, and Sup-plement, Corrigenda, &c. Alsocommunications of Cardinal Brew-ster, Halstead Lodge, Halstead,confirmatory of the foregoing state-ments, and containing many inte- resting particulars of the Brewstersof England. * This old copy of said coat-of-arms is now in the possession ofDr. George G. Brewster, Ports-mouth, New Hampshire, U. S.,who has also furnished particularsrespecting his branch of thefamily, from the year 1629. HIS CONNECTIONS AND BIRTH. 39 idea of this relationship, will be noticed in thecourse of this narrative. Of other branches of the original family, onewas settled in Barking, Essex County, and pos-sessed the manors of AVithfield and Condovers;one settled in Lincolnshire, about the ye
Size: 1519px × 1644px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booksubject, booksubjectmassachusettshistorynewplymouth16201691
