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At the age of about 9, he came with his father and mother on the Mayflower to Plymouth. He married Sarah Collier in Plymouth on 15 May 1634. Sarah was the daughter of William Collier, one of the investors, or Merchant Adventurers, an initial shareholder in the Plymouth Plantation. Love became a freeman (able to vote and hold land) in the Plymouth Colony on 2 March 1635/6. He early removed from Plymouth to Duxbury and “devoted himself to the cultivation of the paternal acres in Duxbury, forming there with his father a family home, . . . where, in due time, a portion of the estate became his own and his children's inheritance.” Elder Brewster's house was included in the “portion of the estate” in which house Love and family lived. [1] In 1637 Love Brewster name appears among those who volunteered to serve in Pequot War from the Colony of New Plymouth [2], but Plymouth Colony's volunteers were not needed. He raised his family in the town of Duxbury, volunteered for the militia under Captain Myles Standish in 1643 [3], and lived out his life in the town. In 1645 he was one of the proprietors of the extension to Duxbury, afterwards known as Bridewater. His wife Sarah survived him for about thirty more years. She married after September 1, 1656, Richard Parke of Cambridge, Mass., who died there, in 1665. “The Plymouth Colony Records show that Sarah returned to Duxbury and was living there 2/12 March 1679/80,” and the following entry is recorded in the First Book of the Plymouth First Church Records, part iii. P. 22, dated 1691, under the heading “members dyed”: “mris Sarah Parke, widow, April 26: in her 76th yeare.” She died at Plymouth [4]
WillThe last Will and Testament of Love Brewster Deseassed exhibited at the generall Court holden at New Plym: the 4th of March 1650 upon the oath of Captaine Miles Standish. (Recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Volume I, folios 89, 90, and 91) Witnesseth these psents that I Love Brewster of Duxburrow in New England and in the goverment of New Plym: being in pfect memory doe ordeaine & appoint this to bee my last will and Testamente And first my will is that if the lord shall please to take mee out of this life that my body bee buried in a decent mannor and that my funerall expences bee taken out of my whole estate; Next my will is; That all my Just and lawfull debts bee paied out of the Remainder of my said estate allso I give unto my Children that is to say Nathaniell Willam Wrasteling and Sara each of them a kettle and further my will is that my three sonns shall have each of them a peece that is to say a gun; allso I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Sara Brewster all the Residue of my whole estate both goods and Chattles and land at Duxburrow for her bringing up of her and my Children the time of her life and after her decease I doe give the aforsaid lands to my eldest sonn and heire apparent Nathaniell Brewster and in Case god should take him away out of this life without Issew I give and bequeath the said lands at Duxburrow to my second sonn Willam Brewster and in like case to my youngest sonn Wresteling Brewster; And for those books I have that my wife would destribute them to herselfe and Children at her discresion allso my will is and I doe by the same give unto my three sonns equally to be devided amongst them all such land as of Right due to mee by Purchase and first coming into the land Which was in the yeare 1620 allso I doe make Constitute and appoint my beloved wife Sara Brewster sole executrix of this my last will and Testament in Witnes Wherof I have put to my hand and Seale this sixt of october 1650 Witness heerunto Love Brewster Myles Standish I true Inventory of the estate of Love Brewster of Duxburrow late deseassed taken by mr William Collyar and Captaine Miles Standish January the last day 1650
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