Elder William Brewster

William Brewster was patriarch of the Pilgrims and their ruling elder from 1609 to 1644, an outstanding leader of the Pilgrim movement, the founding of Plimouth Plantation, and the establishment of civil and religious liberty in the New World. Born at Scrooby, England, about 1566–1567, he died at Plymouth, New England, about April 10, 1644. A resident of Plymouth and Duxbury, he was married to a wife born about 1568–1569 who died at Plymouth about April 17, 1626. Both were Mayflower passengers and rest in unknown graves in Plymouth, possibly in or near Burial Hill.

Plymouth, Massachusetts · United States