Paddock-Foster Lineage to William Brewster on Mayflower

Lineage to William Brewster on Mayflower
LINEAGE OF AARON PADDOCK TO WILLIAM BREWSTER -- PROVEN FOR GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS 2009 Contact John Norvell if you wish copies of documents on a disk for this line

William Brewster-1 was born in 1566 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He died on Apr 10, 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Notes for William Brewster: General Notes: William Brewster was born about 1566, the son of William Brewster. He was educated in both Greek and Latin and spent some time at Cambridge University, although he never completed a full degree. He went into the service of William Davison, then Secretary of State, while his father back home maintained a position as the postmaster of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. Under Davison, Brewster first traveled to the Netherlands. After Davison's departure as Secretary of State, Brewster worked himself into his father's postmaster duties and maintained Scrooby Manor. Brewster was instrumental in establishing the small Separatist church with Richard Clyfton, and they often held their meetings in the Manor house. Brewster and the others were eventually found and forced out, and fleeing prosecution and persecution they headed to Amsterdam in 1608, and moving to Leiden, Holland in 1609. Brewster became the church's Elder, responsible for seeing that the congregation's members carried themselves properly, both helping and admonishing them when necessary. In Leiden, Brewster working with Thomas Brewer became working a printing press and publishing religious books and pamphlets which were then illegally conveyed into England. Brewster also employed himself teaching University of Leiden students English. By 1618, the English authorities were onto him and his printing press, and had the Dutch authorities in pursuit of him. Thomas Brewer was arrested and held in the University of Leiden's prison, but Brewster managed to evade the authorities and went into hiding for a couple years. When the Leiden church congregation decided to send the first wave to set up and establish a colony that everyone could eventually move to, their pastor John Robinson decided to remain behind in Leiden with the majority of the congregation, intending to come later. The smaller group that went on the Mayflower desired the next highest ranking church official, Elder Brewster, go with them; so he agreed. He brought his wife Mary and two youngest children, Love and Wrestling, on the Mayflower with him. Brewster continued his work as Church Elder throughout his life at Plymouth Colony. His wife Mary died in 1627, and he never remarried. He lived to be nearly 80 years old, dying in 1644. Shortly after he died, William Bradford wrote a short but concise biography of Brewster, just a couple pages, in his history Of Plymouth Plantation. ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth REMOVES: Duxbury OCCUPATION: Printer (in Leiden). (George Ernest Bowman summarized what was known in 1921 about the books printed by Brewster at Leiden [MD 23:97-105]. See also R. Breugelmans, "The Pilgrim Press and How Its Books Were Sold," in The Pilgrims in The Netherlands: Recent Research, ed. Jeremy D. Bangs [Leiden 1984], pp. 25-28.) CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Morison summarized Brewster's church activities prior to 1620: "One of the original members of the separatist congregation at Scrooby which became the nucleus of the Pilgrim church, he emigrated with them to Holland in 1608, and became elder and teacher of their church at Leyden" [Morison 368]. With no minister at the Plymouth church for most of the years before Brewster's death, he was the lay leader and preached to the congregation regularly, and continued in this manner after his move to Duxbury. In the course of relating the controversy surrounding John Lyford, Bradford recounts how "our reverend Elder hath labored diligently in dispensing the Word of God to us, before he came: and since, hath taken equal pains with himself, in preaching the same" [Bradford 162]. Included in the inventory of his library were "7 sermons by W B," which may have been his notes for some of his own sermons. FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, prior to those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3]. EDUCATION: Entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, 3 December 1580, but did not graduate [Venn 1:213; Morison 368]. Within the inventory of William Brewster separate listings were made of his Latin and English books, with nearly four hundred titles included; "the total of both Latin & English books amounts to the sum of £42 19s. 11d." [MD 3:27]. ESTATE: In the list of Plymouth "meersteads & garden plots of [those] which came first laid out 1620" Mr. W[illia]m Brewster is on the south side of the street, at the corner of the highway, and next to John Goodman [PCR 12:3]. In the 1623 Plymouth land division Mr. William Brewster received six acres as a passenger on the Mayflower, and "Pacience & Fear Brewster" received two acres as passengers on the Anne [PCR 12:4, 6]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Mr. Will[ia]m Brewster," Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster were the first three names in the fifth company [PCR 12:10]. Assessed £1 7s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:9, 27]. Administration on the estate of William Brewster was granted on 5 June 1644 to Jonathan Brewster and Love Brewster [MD 3:15, citing PCR 2:101]. The inventory of the estate of William Brewster, taken 18 May 1644, totalled £150 7d., with no real estate included [MD 3:15-27, citing PCPR 1:53-59]. "Whereas William Brewster late of Plymouth, gent., deceased left only two sons surviving vizt. Jonathan the eldest and Love the younger and whereas the said William died intestate for ought can to this day appear," the two sons requested William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Thomas Prence and Myles Standish to assist them in coming to an agreement, and on 20 August 1645 a division was made. Jonathan Brewster was excused the debt he had owed to his father, except £4 "in consideration of the wintering of some cattle which the said Jonathan had the summering upon the division and for the diet of Isaack Allerton a grandchild of the said Will[ia]m which he had placed with his son Love to table and because he was the first born of his father we gave him his father's arms and also a two year old heifer over and above his part of the dividables of the said estate," and Love received his father's dwelling house. The lands were divided equally, except for a dispute over the lands at Duxbury, of which sixtyeight acres went to Jonathan (along with a "dwelling house which the said Jonathan had built on the said land by leave of his said father") and forty-three acres went to Love "and the reason wherefore we gave Love the less quantity was and is because the quality of Love's land in goodness is equal to the quantity of Jonathan's as we judge" [MD 3:27-30, citing PCLR 1:198-99; PCR 12:115-17]. BIRTH: About 1566, probably at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, son of William Brewster. DEATH: Duxbury 10 April 1644 [MD 1:7]. MARRIAGE: By 1593 Mary _____; she died at Plymouth 17 April 1627 [MD 1:7]. (See COMMENTS below for discussion of her identity.) Mary, his wife, with two sons, whose names were Love and Wrestling" [Bradford 441]. In the accounting of 1651 we find that "Mr. Brewster lived to very old age; about 80 years he was when he died, having lived some 23 or 24 years here in the country. And though his wife died long before, yet she died aged. His son Wrestling died a young man unmarried. His son Love lived till this year 1650 and died and left four children, now living. His daughters which came over after him are dead but have left sundry children alive. His eldest son is still living and hath nine or ten children; one married who hath a child or two" [Bradford 444]. The quest for the identity of Mary, the wife of William Brewster, has attracted the attention of many genealogists, but as yet without a definitive result. For some time she had been thought to be Mary Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth of Scrooby, and in 1965 John G. Hunt presented his case in favor of this identity [TAG 41:1-5, 63], but this claim was rejected by Rubincam and others, and Hunt himself has now given up this position. He has, however, published a pamphlet claiming that she was a certain Mary Wyrrall, based on the appearance in a will of a bequest to "Mary Butho," which Hunt took to be a variant of Brewster resulting from a speech defect in the person dictating the will [John G. Hunt, Of Mary Brewster: The Identity of Mary, Wife of Elder William BREWSTER of the Mayflower Voyage of 1620 from Plymouth, England, to New Plymouth, New England (Bowling Green, Virginia, 1984)]. Eugene A. Stratton reviewed this volume negatively in 1985 [DSGRM 48:135-36], to which Hunt responded with a supplement to his pamphlet [Of Mary Brewster, part two (Bowling Green, Virginia, August 1985]. The maiden surname of Mary, wife of Elder Brewster, remains unknown. (Hunt has published other articles on various aspects of William Brewster's life which, as with all of Hunt's work, need to be used with caution: "`Master Williamson' of the Mayflower" [NGSQ 62:88-90]; "The Mother of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower" [NEHGR 124:250-56]; "Mary Stubbe - A Connection of Elder William Brewster?" [NEHGR 128:288-90].) A number of other children have been proposed for William Brewster. Jacobus in 1936 disposed of the claimed connections between William Brewster of Plymouth and Francis Brewster of New Haven and his son Nathaniel [TAG 12:199-210, 13:8-21, 113-116]. Mary Walton Ferris proposes a son Edward [Dawes-Gates 2:151]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Emma C. Brewster Jones published early in this century a serviceable genealogy of the family [The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907 ..., 2 volumes (New York 1908)]. Among the many versions of the family published in all-my-ancestor volumes the most complete is that of Mary Walton Ferris [Dawes-Gates 2:142-56]. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants published in 1995 the Brewster volume of its "in progress" series, prepared by Barbara Merrick. Mary was born in 1569 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She died on Apr 17, 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. (1)William Brewster and Mary were married in 1588 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. They had the following children:

Generation 2 (2)Patience Brewster-2 (William-1) was born in 1600 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. She died on Dec 12, 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Thomas Prence was born in 1600 in England. He died on Mar 29, 1673. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster were married on Aug 05, 1624. They had the following children:

Generation 3 (3) Mercy Prence-3 (Patience-2, William-1) was born in 1631 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. She died on Sep 28, 1711 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Notes for Mercy Prence: General Notes: Mercy, d. Sept. 28, 1711, aged 80 years (g. s. at Eastham) ; m. Feb. 13, 1649-50, Major John Freeman, brother of Edmund Freeman, Jr., who m. her sister Eebecca. He was b. in Eng. ; d. Oct. 28, 1719, in the 98th year of his age (g. s. at Eastham) . Bee. Eastham. He is mentioned in records as " among the early settlers, with Governor Prence." " Was many years prominent in public affaire, and has to this day been regarded as one of the fathers of Eastham." " He was deputy from 1654, eight yrs. ; selectman from 1663, ten yrs. ; assistant in the Government from 1666, several yrs., and Dec. 1, 1692, was appointed to the Bench of the Court of Common Pleas. Was a deacon of Eastham church many yrs. and was somewhat conspicuous in the military, doing service in the Indian wars. Through life he was a large land holder." Chn., b. at Eattham: John Freeman was born on Jan 28, 1627 in Sussex, England. He died on Oct 28, 1719 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. John Freeman and Mercy Prence were married on Feb 13, 1649.

Generation 4 (4) John Freeman (Jr)-4 (Mercy-3, Patience-2, William-1) was born in Dec 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He died on Jul 27, 1721 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Notes for John Freeman: General Notes: John Freeman (Jr), b. Dec., 1661; d. July 27, 1721; m. 1st, Dec. 18, 1672, Sarah, dau. of Ensign William and Rebecca Merrick, b. at Eastham, Aug. 1, 1654; d. at Brewster, Apr. 21, 1696; m. 3d, 1701, Mercy Hedge, wid. of Capt. Elkanah Watson, of Plymouth. She d. Sept 27, 1721, ??. 63. Bee. Harwich, now Brewster, Mass. " He was one of eight persons who constituted the original church in H., Oct 17, 1700." 11 chn. Sarah Merrick daughter of William Merrick and Rebecca was born on Aug 01, 1654 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. She died on Apr 21, 1696 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. John Freeman and Sarah Merrick were married on Dec 18, 1672 in Massachusetts, USA. They had the following children:

Generation 5 (5) Mercy Freeman-5 (John-4, Mercy-3, Patience-2, William-1) was born on Aug 03, 1687 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. She died on Jul 07, 1720 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Chillingsworth Foster son of John Foster and Mary Chillingsworth was born on Jun 11, 1680 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. He died on Dec 22, 1764 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Chillingsworth Foster and Mercy Freeman married.

Generation 6 (6)Mary Foster-6 (Mercy-5, John-4, Mercy-3, Patience-2, William-1) was born on Jan 01, 1710 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. She died in 1747 in New York, USA. David Paddock son of Zachariah Paddock and Bethia Hall was born on Aug 12, 1705 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He died in 1772 in New York, USA. Harwich (Brewster), Mass. 12 Oct. 1727: "Then David Paddack of Yarimouth and Mary Foster of Harwich were married By the Reverend Nathaniel Stone" He was a Seafaring man, Cape Cod. Deacon, Yarmouth 1740, later Deacon, Presbyterian Church, Southeast, N.Y. where said to have removed abt. 1740. On Tax Lists Southern District, Dutchess Co. N.Y. 2 Feb. 1741/2 to 1771, first appearing as neighbor of Joseph Crane and James Paddock . Home located abt. l4 miles east of Brewster Station N.Y. near center of Southeast on road to Danbury. Held 304 acres from Commissioners of Forfeiture 4 July. 1782. David Paddock of Duchess Co. yeoman and wife Mary mortgaged to Rich and Harrison, Esq. of New York 13 May 1788 part of his farm land in Fredericksburg where he lived then, bounded by The Oblong , mortgage apparently cancelled 27 May 1800. His farm was on the north side of Croton River on the road to Milltown at the west end of Joe's Hill, a scenic eminence in the east part of Southeast terminating on the east branch of Croton River. In the vicinity were the old Presbyterian Meeting House at Sodom Corners and Crane's Mill on the north side of Joe's Hill. His land is now in the Croton Reservoir owned by New York City. Marriage is listed on page 83 of Mayflower Marriages David Paddock and Mary Foster were married on Oct 12, 1727 in Harwich, Brewster, MA, USA. They had the following children:

i. David Paddock was born on Dec 12, 1734 in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He married Miriam Belden on Jan 28, 1762 in Connecticut, USA. He died on Mar 31, 1794 in Putnam, New York, USA.

Generation 7 (7)David (Burr) Paddock-7 (Mary-6, Mercy-5, John-4, Mercy-3, Patience-2, William-1) was born on Dec 12, 1734 in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. He died on Mar 31, 1794 in Putnam, New York, USA. Notes for David Paddock: General Notes: David (Burr) Paddock. b. Yarmouth, Mass. 12 Dec. 1734, d. Southeast (probably a geographic location not a town) Dutchess (now Putnam) Co. N.Y. 31 Mar. 1793 "1794"; will rec. Dutchess Co. 25 May 1793 Married MIRIAM Belden b. Deerfield, Mass. 14 May 1743 d. 27 Apr. 1823 as 79.11.11, bd. Milltown Cem. Putnam Co. N.Y.; da. Daniel and Esther (Smith) Belden of Norwalk, Conn.; married (2) Nathan Green b. 1735, d. 22 Oct. 1821 ae 86. Private 7th Regiment Dutchess Co. N.Y. Revolutionary War
   The family farm lay at the west end of Joe's Hill and descended to his son David B. Paddock, whose daughter, Mary, married Moses Richards, whose son David Belden Richards is the 1886 owner of a small part of the farm. The old Paddock homestead was on the north side of Croton River on the road to Milltown, and the residence of Mr. Richards stands on the site. To the south of the Paddock farm and bounded east by the Oblong was the farm of Col. Jonathan Crane. Near the old Milltown burying ground was an old house owned by Cyrus P. Hanford, whose mother was Phebe, daughter of David Paddock. Marriage recorded in Early Connecticut Marriages, 6th Book, p 70. Miriam Belden daughter of Daniel Belden and Esther Smith was born on May 14, 1743 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA. She died on Apr 27, 1823 in New York, USA. Notes for Miriam Belden: Death recorded in Milltown Cem records, Putnam NY David (Burr) Paddock and Miriam Belden were married on Jan 28, 1762 in Connecticut, USA.

Personal Note: This is where the lineage changes, for me, Jody Gray and my family
Generation 8 (8) Foster Marshall Paddock-8 (David-7, Mary-6, Mercy-5, John-4, Mercy-3, Patience-2, William-1) married Tamson Raymond

Generation 9 (9) Foster Paddock Jr married Chloe Raymond
Generation 10 (10) Thomas J Paddock married Laura Odell
Generation 11 (11) Louisa Paddock married Timothy Lynch
Generation 12 (12) Clare Maud Lynch married George Alvey Gray
Generation 13 (13) Robert Lyn Gray married Lucile Marie Piper

Note: This "Pedigree" lineage chart is for the Paddock (Foster) lineage (see, Beginnings, Paddock Surname). For the Gray Lineage, see, Beginnings, Gray Surname. Parents of George Alvey Gray: George R Gray and Anne Wait are of the Gray Surname lineage (see, Beginnings, Gray Surname): that lineage begins with John Gray m: Bathia Davidson; George R Gray m: Anne Wait; George Alvey m: Clare Maud Lynch; Robert Lyn m: Lucile Marie Piper.

The Gray lineage (connection to the Paddocks [which began with the marriage of Mary Foster to (Deacon) David Paddock; Mary was a daughter of Chillingsworth Foster and Mercy (Brewster) Freeman; this is when the Foster lineage to the Brewster Mayflower lineage began *Mary is the 6th Generation] begins when Louisa Paddock married Timothy Lynch; their daughter, Clare Maud, married George Alvey Gray; their son, Robert Lyn Gray married Lucile Marie Piper.

Put, still another way, our connection to the Mayflower passenger, William Brewster, begins with our [6th Generation], ancestor Mary Foster married (Deacon) David Paddock [Mary was the daughter of Chillingsworth Foster and [5th Generation] Mercy (Brewster) Freeman; their son, David Burr Paddock [7th Generation] married Miriam Beldon... seems a bit of a 'stretch' (far removed); to begin with it was a Paddock marriage to a 6th Generation Brewster through her father's marriage to a 5th Generation Brewster.
   However, I enjoyed [and you should also] learning about the history of of the Plymouth Colony Paddock, immigrant ancestor, Robert Paddock (from Ireland, before that, France [yet to be verified, by me] married Mary Holmes (see, Beginnings, Paddock Surname). Which seems odd because you'll find no mention of a Foster or Brewster family member here; that's because it's the Gray connection to these two families begins with Louisa Paddock [married Timothy Lynch] and their daughter, Clare Maud Lynch married George Alvey... 
     I find, having an ancestor [no matter how 'distant'] living during an important period of our country's history makes it more interesting! Not only have I learned more than what was taught to me from a grade-school textbook but I actually remember what I learned!

Note: the yellow highlighted section, just above, was done as a REMINDER, to me so that I will edit it after I complete my next Paddock research project, 10th Great-Grandparents: John aka Jean Paddock and Jane aka Jeanette Jennings to see if I can verify our French Paddock lineage [so far, I have the Will of his mother, Francoise Trallour married to (Lord) Paul Paddoc; she died in 1607 in France. (Lord) Paul Paddoc died in 1589 in France. Picture of castle of Lord Paddoc is in his gallery. We have joked that if I can document our lineage we will travel to France, go to the castle, and demand a tour! 

Note to self: I need to Google the castle and see if it's still there!
La Cateau Manor, Nord, Calais, France. Le Cateau (and Orchies), France. Montherme, France. Document attached to his profile page: Henri Paddoc -Lord of Manors Le Cateau and Orchies.