This fellow lived through both the Revolution and the War of 1812 !
The following is from Jeanne Killick's book, updated CD version 2003, "Many of the Descendants of the Reverend Nathaniel Brewster , Chapter 4 Descendants of Timothy Brewster and Mary Hawkins, pg 31-33. Shared with permission.
31. TIMOTHY7 BREWSTER (SAMUEL6, NATHANIEL5, TIMOTHY4, NATHANIEL3, FRANCIS2, FRANCIS1) was born 3 Nov
1746 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY, and died 23 Nov 1816 in ,Orange,NY. He married (1) PHEBE WOOD 17 Oct
1774 in ,,NY, daughter of JOHN WOOD and PHEBE JARVIS. She was born 17 Feb 1754 in Huntington, Suffolk,
NY, and died 10 May 1792 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (38th year). He married (2) SARAH YOUNGS 17 Oct
1794 in ,,NJ. She was born Bet. 1758 - 1759, and died 24 Nov 1839 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (80th year).
Notes for TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
SOURCE-Census and Tax Lists
TIMOTHY [BRUSTER], Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ: 1779, 1786, 1787, 1788
TIMOTHY BREWSTER, Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ, 1810 Tax list
"Early life
The following is a copy of a manuscript which has been preserved in the family of Henry S. Brewster, of Blooming-Grove. It is a very interesting account of the early life of Timothy Brewster, and of events in New Windsor [Orange County, NY] in the early part of the Revolution. It was printed in "The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands", p. 46:
"NARRATIVE OF TIMOTHY BREWSTER
Woodbridge, in the State of New Jersey. August the 19th, 1782.
I have thought it might not be amiss for me to set down some of the remarkable events that has befallen me during my life thus far, that thereby we might see the great care and goodness of God to his creatures.
My father, Samuel Brewster, having two sons and one daughter, myself being the youngest, moved from Long Island in the year 1749, to the Highlands of Goshen, and bought him a farm; but soon after engaged in the iron business, at which business I was closely brought up. My mother died when I was about ten years old. My father married again and had sons and daughters.
In the year 1771, there was a sea vessel built, up the North River, by the people of Goshen my father being a partner. I had a desire to go on voyage to the West Indies. I was previously innoculated with the small-pox. This brig accordingly sailed from New York the 17th of March, 1771, under the command of William Gandle, being well loaded. Myself under the character of a passenger with an adventure to the amount of one hundred pounds. This vessel proved very unsuccessful. We cleared out for Sandycruse and Coracca, but unfortunately had not been out five days until we were cast away on Bermada three leagues from land, it being about midnight, with a bitter storm of wind and rain. My journal of this voyage is lost or I could give a more full account of it; however, the vessel lay there about eight days in which time the load was chiefly got on shore and the vessel got off dismasted and in a shattered condition. While this vessel was repairing her damages in order to prosecute her voyage my venture being wholly lost and taken in repairs, I got a passage with Captain Thomas Hunt to New York, where we arrived on the 5th day of May. I then again went to my hard work of making iron. Soon after this there came a remarkable freshet and carried off the iron works together with the dams. This seeming misfortune turned out rather to our advantage, as the works had grown old and much out of repair. We soon rebuilt them again. After this was over, I began to be seven or eight-and-twenty years old, I requested my father and brother to assist me in building a house and barn, as I had a desire to leave the iron business and get settled and follow farming, which they accordingly did, three miles from New Windsor, in the county of Ulster, on the great road leading to the Wallkill, giving me all their lands on the North side of the said road which amounted to near one hundred acres.
About this time began the disturbance between Old England and her colonies which brought about the Revolution. In November 1773, the ship load of tea was sent to enforce the duty, which the Bostonians destroyed in the spring of '74. The harbor was blocked up with troops taking possession of the town.
By this time I thought it proper and convenient to marry, being in my eight- and-twentieth year, which I accordingly did on the 17th day of October, 1774 to Phebe Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Huntington, being in her one-and-twentieth year. In the year 1775, we had our son, Samuel, born on the 12th day of July.
The next spring, being in '76, I and my wife went to Long Island and carried our child to see our friends there. By this time the war began to grow serious, the armies moving in almost all quarters. In the year '77, we had our second son, John, born on the 15th of August. This was a bloody summer here indeed. In this summer there was seven or eight general alarms when it was expected the enemy would attack the forts on the North River, which did not happen until the 6th of October. They then came on the fort very suddenly, when few of the militia had got to the assistance of the garrison. After surrounding Fort Montgomery and Clinton they sent in a summons demanding a surrender within ten minutes, which Governor Clinton very bravely refused, choosing rather to die in a good cause than to yield to a set of unjust men. They then stormed the fort, it being near sunset, with six thousand against five hundred and took it by storm just in the evening. In this dreadful fray about one-half of our garrison was killed and taken, and the other half made their way through the enemy, in which latter number it was God's will I and my brother should be included.
Now it was the enemy which had got possession of the North River; Burgoyne passing down with an army of ten or twelve thousand men almost to Albany. The Lord did now in a wonderful manner appear for the Americans, for on the 10th. of his month happened the wonderful event of Burgoyne's surrender with his army.
Sir Henry Clinton had by this time burnt Esopus, finding what had happened to Burgoyne, made the best of his way to New York lest he should share the same fate.
Previous to this my wife and I had been to the Jerseys to see our friends there, and had several pressing invitations from Aunt White to come and live with her and keep the tavern. So, after Fort Montgomery was taken, we determined to move to the Jerseys.
Accordingly I went to the Jerseys and settled matters with Miss. White and returned to make possible preparations for a removal, and on the six and twentieth day of November we took our departure from New Windsor with an Ox-cart and wagon, driving the cattle, hogs and sheep. This journey was attended with great fatigue. However, we arrived to Basking Ridge on the fifth day of December, 1777. Here we lived and kept the tavern in good credit and friendship with our neighbors, nothing happening material until March, 1779 at which time the confiscated farms were sold and I bought the farm I now possess. TIMOTHY BREWSTER"
SOURCE-Death Year
LDS Film 0944765, Item 1, "Brewster/Breuster Family Bible Records 1746-1858" indicates that Timothy
Brewster died in 1816.
Chapter 4: Descendants of Timothy Brewster & Mary Hawkins
33
More About TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Military service: Revolutionary War
More About PHEBE WOOD:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
More About SARAH YOUNGS:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and PHEBE WOOD are:
82. i. SAMUEL8 BREWSTER, b. 12 Jul 1775, ,Orange,NY; d. 22 Mar 1839, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (64th year).
83. ii. COL. JOHN BREWSTER, b. 15 Aug 1777, ,Orange,NY; d. 27 Aug 1822, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (46th
year).
84. iii. JARVIS WOOD BREWSTER, b. 23 Feb 1780, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 6 Mar 1844, Trenton, Oneida,
NY.
85. iv. MARY BREWSTER, b. 7 Apr 1782, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (66th year).
v. ELIZABETH BREWSTER, b. 27 Feb 1785, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 5 Oct 1785, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (7m, 7d).
More About ELIZABETH BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
86. vi. NATHANIEL D. BREWSTER, b. 17 Oct 1786, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 Jun 1869, Coldenham,
Orange, NY.
87. vii. TIMOTHY BREWSTER, JR., b. 22 Apr 1789, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 May 1836, Newburgh, Orange,
NY.
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and SARAH YOUNGS are:
88. viii. GEORGE YOUNGS8 BREWSTER, b. 28 Dec 1794, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 4 Jul 1853, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (59th year).
ix. JAMES BREWSTER, b. 12 Jun 1798, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 24 Mar 1799, Woodbridge, Middlesex,
NJ (9m, 12d).
More About JAMES BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
The following is from Jeanne Killick's book, updated CD version 2003, "Many of the Descendants of the Reverend Nathaniel Brewster , Chapter 4 Descendants of Timothy Brewster and Mary Hawkins, pg 31-33. Shared with permission.
31. TIMOTHY7 BREWSTER (SAMUEL6, NATHANIEL5, TIMOTHY4, NATHANIEL3, FRANCIS2, FRANCIS1) was born 3 Nov
1746 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY, and died 23 Nov 1816 in ,Orange,NY. He married (1) PHEBE WOOD 17 Oct
1774 in ,,NY, daughter of JOHN WOOD and PHEBE JARVIS. She was born 17 Feb 1754 in Huntington, Suffolk,
NY, and died 10 May 1792 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (38th year). He married (2) SARAH YOUNGS 17 Oct
1794 in ,,NJ. She was born Bet. 1758 - 1759, and died 24 Nov 1839 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (80th year).
Notes for TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
SOURCE-Census and Tax Lists
TIMOTHY [BRUSTER], Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ: 1779, 1786, 1787, 1788
TIMOTHY BREWSTER, Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ, 1810 Tax list
"Early life
The following is a copy of a manuscript which has been preserved in the family of Henry S. Brewster, of Blooming-Grove. It is a very interesting account of the early life of Timothy Brewster, and of events in New Windsor [Orange County, NY] in the early part of the Revolution. It was printed in "The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands", p. 46:
"NARRATIVE OF TIMOTHY BREWSTER
Woodbridge, in the State of New Jersey. August the 19th, 1782.
I have thought it might not be amiss for me to set down some of the remarkable events that has befallen me during my life thus far, that thereby we might see the great care and goodness of God to his creatures.
My father, Samuel Brewster, having two sons and one daughter, myself being the youngest, moved from Long Island in the year 1749, to the Highlands of Goshen, and bought him a farm; but soon after engaged in the iron business, at which business I was closely brought up. My mother died when I was about ten years old. My father married again and had sons and daughters.
In the year 1771, there was a sea vessel built, up the North River, by the people of Goshen my father being a partner. I had a desire to go on voyage to the West Indies. I was previously innoculated with the small-pox. This brig accordingly sailed from New York the 17th of March, 1771, under the command of William Gandle, being well loaded. Myself under the character of a passenger with an adventure to the amount of one hundred pounds. This vessel proved very unsuccessful. We cleared out for Sandycruse and Coracca, but unfortunately had not been out five days until we were cast away on Bermada three leagues from land, it being about midnight, with a bitter storm of wind and rain. My journal of this voyage is lost or I could give a more full account of it; however, the vessel lay there about eight days in which time the load was chiefly got on shore and the vessel got off dismasted and in a shattered condition. While this vessel was repairing her damages in order to prosecute her voyage my venture being wholly lost and taken in repairs, I got a passage with Captain Thomas Hunt to New York, where we arrived on the 5th day of May. I then again went to my hard work of making iron. Soon after this there came a remarkable freshet and carried off the iron works together with the dams. This seeming misfortune turned out rather to our advantage, as the works had grown old and much out of repair. We soon rebuilt them again. After this was over, I began to be seven or eight-and-twenty years old, I requested my father and brother to assist me in building a house and barn, as I had a desire to leave the iron business and get settled and follow farming, which they accordingly did, three miles from New Windsor, in the county of Ulster, on the great road leading to the Wallkill, giving me all their lands on the North side of the said road which amounted to near one hundred acres.
About this time began the disturbance between Old England and her colonies which brought about the Revolution. In November 1773, the ship load of tea was sent to enforce the duty, which the Bostonians destroyed in the spring of '74. The harbor was blocked up with troops taking possession of the town.
By this time I thought it proper and convenient to marry, being in my eight- and-twentieth year, which I accordingly did on the 17th day of October, 1774 to Phebe Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Huntington, being in her one-and-twentieth year. In the year 1775, we had our son, Samuel, born on the 12th day of July.
The next spring, being in '76, I and my wife went to Long Island and carried our child to see our friends there. By this time the war began to grow serious, the armies moving in almost all quarters. In the year '77, we had our second son, John, born on the 15th of August. This was a bloody summer here indeed. In this summer there was seven or eight general alarms when it was expected the enemy would attack the forts on the North River, which did not happen until the 6th of October. They then came on the fort very suddenly, when few of the militia had got to the assistance of the garrison. After surrounding Fort Montgomery and Clinton they sent in a summons demanding a surrender within ten minutes, which Governor Clinton very bravely refused, choosing rather to die in a good cause than to yield to a set of unjust men. They then stormed the fort, it being near sunset, with six thousand against five hundred and took it by storm just in the evening. In this dreadful fray about one-half of our garrison was killed and taken, and the other half made their way through the enemy, in which latter number it was God's will I and my brother should be included.
Now it was the enemy which had got possession of the North River; Burgoyne passing down with an army of ten or twelve thousand men almost to Albany. The Lord did now in a wonderful manner appear for the Americans, for on the 10th. of his month happened the wonderful event of Burgoyne's surrender with his army.
Sir Henry Clinton had by this time burnt Esopus, finding what had happened to Burgoyne, made the best of his way to New York lest he should share the same fate.
Previous to this my wife and I had been to the Jerseys to see our friends there, and had several pressing invitations from Aunt White to come and live with her and keep the tavern. So, after Fort Montgomery was taken, we determined to move to the Jerseys.
Accordingly I went to the Jerseys and settled matters with Miss. White and returned to make possible preparations for a removal, and on the six and twentieth day of November we took our departure from New Windsor with an Ox-cart and wagon, driving the cattle, hogs and sheep. This journey was attended with great fatigue. However, we arrived to Basking Ridge on the fifth day of December, 1777. Here we lived and kept the tavern in good credit and friendship with our neighbors, nothing happening material until March, 1779 at which time the confiscated farms were sold and I bought the farm I now possess. TIMOTHY BREWSTER"
SOURCE-Death Year
LDS Film 0944765, Item 1, "Brewster/Breuster Family Bible Records 1746-1858" indicates that Timothy
Brewster died in 1816.
Chapter 4: Descendants of Timothy Brewster & Mary Hawkins
33
More About TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Military service: Revolutionary War
More About PHEBE WOOD:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
More About SARAH YOUNGS:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and PHEBE WOOD are:
82. i. SAMUEL8 BREWSTER, b. 12 Jul 1775, ,Orange,NY; d. 22 Mar 1839, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (64th year).
83. ii. COL. JOHN BREWSTER, b. 15 Aug 1777, ,Orange,NY; d. 27 Aug 1822, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (46th
year).
84. iii. JARVIS WOOD BREWSTER, b. 23 Feb 1780, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 6 Mar 1844, Trenton, Oneida,
NY.
85. iv. MARY BREWSTER, b. 7 Apr 1782, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (66th year).
v. ELIZABETH BREWSTER, b. 27 Feb 1785, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 5 Oct 1785, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (7m, 7d).
More About ELIZABETH BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
86. vi. NATHANIEL D. BREWSTER, b. 17 Oct 1786, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 Jun 1869, Coldenham,
Orange, NY.
87. vii. TIMOTHY BREWSTER, JR., b. 22 Apr 1789, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 May 1836, Newburgh, Orange,
NY.
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and SARAH YOUNGS are:
88. viii. GEORGE YOUNGS8 BREWSTER, b. 28 Dec 1794, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 4 Jul 1853, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (59th year).
ix. JAMES BREWSTER, b. 12 Jun 1798, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 24 Mar 1799, Woodbridge, Middlesex,
NJ (9m, 12d).
More About JAMES BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
This fellow lived through both the Revolution and the War of 1812 !
The following is from Jeanne Killick's book, updated CD version 2003, "Many of the Descendants of the Reverend Nathaniel Brewster , Chapter 4 Descendants of Timothy Brewster and Mary Hawkins, pg 31-33. Shared with permission.
31. TIMOTHY7 BREWSTER (SAMUEL6, NATHANIEL5, TIMOTHY4, NATHANIEL3, FRANCIS2, FRANCIS1) was born 3 Nov
1746 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY, and died 23 Nov 1816 in ,Orange,NY. He married (1) PHEBE WOOD 17 Oct
1774 in ,,NY, daughter of JOHN WOOD and PHEBE JARVIS. She was born 17 Feb 1754 in Huntington, Suffolk,
NY, and died 10 May 1792 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (38th year). He married (2) SARAH YOUNGS 17 Oct
1794 in ,,NJ. She was born Bet. 1758 - 1759, and died 24 Nov 1839 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (80th year).
Notes for TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
SOURCE-Census and Tax Lists
TIMOTHY [BRUSTER], Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ: 1779, 1786, 1787, 1788
TIMOTHY BREWSTER, Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ, 1810 Tax list
"Early life
The following is a copy of a manuscript which has been preserved in the family of Henry S. Brewster, of Blooming-Grove. It is a very interesting account of the early life of Timothy Brewster, and of events in New Windsor [Orange County, NY] in the early part of the Revolution. It was printed in "The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands", p. 46:
"NARRATIVE OF TIMOTHY BREWSTER
Woodbridge, in the State of New Jersey. August the 19th, 1782.
I have thought it might not be amiss for me to set down some of the remarkable events that has befallen me during my life thus far, that thereby we might see the great care and goodness of God to his creatures.
My father, Samuel Brewster, having two sons and one daughter, myself being the youngest, moved from Long Island in the year 1749, to the Highlands of Goshen, and bought him a farm; but soon after engaged in the iron business, at which business I was closely brought up. My mother died when I was about ten years old. My father married again and had sons and daughters.
In the year 1771, there was a sea vessel built, up the North River, by the people of Goshen my father being a partner. I had a desire to go on voyage to the West Indies. I was previously innoculated with the small-pox. This brig accordingly sailed from New York the 17th of March, 1771, under the command of William Gandle, being well loaded. Myself under the character of a passenger with an adventure to the amount of one hundred pounds. This vessel proved very unsuccessful. We cleared out for Sandycruse and Coracca, but unfortunately had not been out five days until we were cast away on Bermada three leagues from land, it being about midnight, with a bitter storm of wind and rain. My journal of this voyage is lost or I could give a more full account of it; however, the vessel lay there about eight days in which time the load was chiefly got on shore and the vessel got off dismasted and in a shattered condition. While this vessel was repairing her damages in order to prosecute her voyage my venture being wholly lost and taken in repairs, I got a passage with Captain Thomas Hunt to New York, where we arrived on the 5th day of May. I then again went to my hard work of making iron. Soon after this there came a remarkable freshet and carried off the iron works together with the dams. This seeming misfortune turned out rather to our advantage, as the works had grown old and much out of repair. We soon rebuilt them again. After this was over, I began to be seven or eight-and-twenty years old, I requested my father and brother to assist me in building a house and barn, as I had a desire to leave the iron business and get settled and follow farming, which they accordingly did, three miles from New Windsor, in the county of Ulster, on the great road leading to the Wallkill, giving me all their lands on the North side of the said road which amounted to near one hundred acres.
About this time began the disturbance between Old England and her colonies which brought about the Revolution. In November 1773, the ship load of tea was sent to enforce the duty, which the Bostonians destroyed in the spring of '74. The harbor was blocked up with troops taking possession of the town.
By this time I thought it proper and convenient to marry, being in my eight- and-twentieth year, which I accordingly did on the 17th day of October, 1774 to Phebe Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Huntington, being in her one-and-twentieth year. In the year 1775, we had our son, Samuel, born on the 12th day of July.
The next spring, being in '76, I and my wife went to Long Island and carried our child to see our friends there. By this time the war began to grow serious, the armies moving in almost all quarters. In the year '77, we had our second son, John, born on the 15th of August. This was a bloody summer here indeed. In this summer there was seven or eight general alarms when it was expected the enemy would attack the forts on the North River, which did not happen until the 6th of October. They then came on the fort very suddenly, when few of the militia had got to the assistance of the garrison. After surrounding Fort Montgomery and Clinton they sent in a summons demanding a surrender within ten minutes, which Governor Clinton very bravely refused, choosing rather to die in a good cause than to yield to a set of unjust men. They then stormed the fort, it being near sunset, with six thousand against five hundred and took it by storm just in the evening. In this dreadful fray about one-half of our garrison was killed and taken, and the other half made their way through the enemy, in which latter number it was God's will I and my brother should be included.
Now it was the enemy which had got possession of the North River; Burgoyne passing down with an army of ten or twelve thousand men almost to Albany. The Lord did now in a wonderful manner appear for the Americans, for on the 10th. of his month happened the wonderful event of Burgoyne's surrender with his army.
Sir Henry Clinton had by this time burnt Esopus, finding what had happened to Burgoyne, made the best of his way to New York lest he should share the same fate.
Previous to this my wife and I had been to the Jerseys to see our friends there, and had several pressing invitations from Aunt White to come and live with her and keep the tavern. So, after Fort Montgomery was taken, we determined to move to the Jerseys.
Accordingly I went to the Jerseys and settled matters with Miss. White and returned to make possible preparations for a removal, and on the six and twentieth day of November we took our departure from New Windsor with an Ox-cart and wagon, driving the cattle, hogs and sheep. This journey was attended with great fatigue. However, we arrived to Basking Ridge on the fifth day of December, 1777. Here we lived and kept the tavern in good credit and friendship with our neighbors, nothing happening material until March, 1779 at which time the confiscated farms were sold and I bought the farm I now possess. TIMOTHY BREWSTER"
SOURCE-Death Year
LDS Film 0944765, Item 1, "Brewster/Breuster Family Bible Records 1746-1858" indicates that Timothy
Brewster died in 1816.
Chapter 4: Descendants of Timothy Brewster & Mary Hawkins
33
More About TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Military service: Revolutionary War
More About PHEBE WOOD:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
More About SARAH YOUNGS:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and PHEBE WOOD are:
82. i. SAMUEL8 BREWSTER, b. 12 Jul 1775, ,Orange,NY; d. 22 Mar 1839, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (64th year).
83. ii. COL. JOHN BREWSTER, b. 15 Aug 1777, ,Orange,NY; d. 27 Aug 1822, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (46th
year).
84. iii. JARVIS WOOD BREWSTER, b. 23 Feb 1780, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 6 Mar 1844, Trenton, Oneida,
NY.
85. iv. MARY BREWSTER, b. 7 Apr 1782, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (66th year).
v. ELIZABETH BREWSTER, b. 27 Feb 1785, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 5 Oct 1785, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (7m, 7d).
More About ELIZABETH BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
86. vi. NATHANIEL D. BREWSTER, b. 17 Oct 1786, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 Jun 1869, Coldenham,
Orange, NY.
87. vii. TIMOTHY BREWSTER, JR., b. 22 Apr 1789, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 May 1836, Newburgh, Orange,
NY.
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and SARAH YOUNGS are:
88. viii. GEORGE YOUNGS8 BREWSTER, b. 28 Dec 1794, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 4 Jul 1853, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (59th year).
ix. JAMES BREWSTER, b. 12 Jun 1798, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 24 Mar 1799, Woodbridge, Middlesex,
NJ (9m, 12d).
More About JAMES BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
The following is from Jeanne Killick's book, updated CD version 2003, "Many of the Descendants of the Reverend Nathaniel Brewster , Chapter 4 Descendants of Timothy Brewster and Mary Hawkins, pg 31-33. Shared with permission.
31. TIMOTHY7 BREWSTER (SAMUEL6, NATHANIEL5, TIMOTHY4, NATHANIEL3, FRANCIS2, FRANCIS1) was born 3 Nov
1746 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY, and died 23 Nov 1816 in ,Orange,NY. He married (1) PHEBE WOOD 17 Oct
1774 in ,,NY, daughter of JOHN WOOD and PHEBE JARVIS. She was born 17 Feb 1754 in Huntington, Suffolk,
NY, and died 10 May 1792 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (38th year). He married (2) SARAH YOUNGS 17 Oct
1794 in ,,NJ. She was born Bet. 1758 - 1759, and died 24 Nov 1839 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (80th year).
Notes for TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
SOURCE-Census and Tax Lists
TIMOTHY [BRUSTER], Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ: 1779, 1786, 1787, 1788
TIMOTHY BREWSTER, Woodbridge Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ, 1810 Tax list
"Early life
The following is a copy of a manuscript which has been preserved in the family of Henry S. Brewster, of Blooming-Grove. It is a very interesting account of the early life of Timothy Brewster, and of events in New Windsor [Orange County, NY] in the early part of the Revolution. It was printed in "The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands", p. 46:
"NARRATIVE OF TIMOTHY BREWSTER
Woodbridge, in the State of New Jersey. August the 19th, 1782.
I have thought it might not be amiss for me to set down some of the remarkable events that has befallen me during my life thus far, that thereby we might see the great care and goodness of God to his creatures.
My father, Samuel Brewster, having two sons and one daughter, myself being the youngest, moved from Long Island in the year 1749, to the Highlands of Goshen, and bought him a farm; but soon after engaged in the iron business, at which business I was closely brought up. My mother died when I was about ten years old. My father married again and had sons and daughters.
In the year 1771, there was a sea vessel built, up the North River, by the people of Goshen my father being a partner. I had a desire to go on voyage to the West Indies. I was previously innoculated with the small-pox. This brig accordingly sailed from New York the 17th of March, 1771, under the command of William Gandle, being well loaded. Myself under the character of a passenger with an adventure to the amount of one hundred pounds. This vessel proved very unsuccessful. We cleared out for Sandycruse and Coracca, but unfortunately had not been out five days until we were cast away on Bermada three leagues from land, it being about midnight, with a bitter storm of wind and rain. My journal of this voyage is lost or I could give a more full account of it; however, the vessel lay there about eight days in which time the load was chiefly got on shore and the vessel got off dismasted and in a shattered condition. While this vessel was repairing her damages in order to prosecute her voyage my venture being wholly lost and taken in repairs, I got a passage with Captain Thomas Hunt to New York, where we arrived on the 5th day of May. I then again went to my hard work of making iron. Soon after this there came a remarkable freshet and carried off the iron works together with the dams. This seeming misfortune turned out rather to our advantage, as the works had grown old and much out of repair. We soon rebuilt them again. After this was over, I began to be seven or eight-and-twenty years old, I requested my father and brother to assist me in building a house and barn, as I had a desire to leave the iron business and get settled and follow farming, which they accordingly did, three miles from New Windsor, in the county of Ulster, on the great road leading to the Wallkill, giving me all their lands on the North side of the said road which amounted to near one hundred acres.
About this time began the disturbance between Old England and her colonies which brought about the Revolution. In November 1773, the ship load of tea was sent to enforce the duty, which the Bostonians destroyed in the spring of '74. The harbor was blocked up with troops taking possession of the town.
By this time I thought it proper and convenient to marry, being in my eight- and-twentieth year, which I accordingly did on the 17th day of October, 1774 to Phebe Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Huntington, being in her one-and-twentieth year. In the year 1775, we had our son, Samuel, born on the 12th day of July.
The next spring, being in '76, I and my wife went to Long Island and carried our child to see our friends there. By this time the war began to grow serious, the armies moving in almost all quarters. In the year '77, we had our second son, John, born on the 15th of August. This was a bloody summer here indeed. In this summer there was seven or eight general alarms when it was expected the enemy would attack the forts on the North River, which did not happen until the 6th of October. They then came on the fort very suddenly, when few of the militia had got to the assistance of the garrison. After surrounding Fort Montgomery and Clinton they sent in a summons demanding a surrender within ten minutes, which Governor Clinton very bravely refused, choosing rather to die in a good cause than to yield to a set of unjust men. They then stormed the fort, it being near sunset, with six thousand against five hundred and took it by storm just in the evening. In this dreadful fray about one-half of our garrison was killed and taken, and the other half made their way through the enemy, in which latter number it was God's will I and my brother should be included.
Now it was the enemy which had got possession of the North River; Burgoyne passing down with an army of ten or twelve thousand men almost to Albany. The Lord did now in a wonderful manner appear for the Americans, for on the 10th. of his month happened the wonderful event of Burgoyne's surrender with his army.
Sir Henry Clinton had by this time burnt Esopus, finding what had happened to Burgoyne, made the best of his way to New York lest he should share the same fate.
Previous to this my wife and I had been to the Jerseys to see our friends there, and had several pressing invitations from Aunt White to come and live with her and keep the tavern. So, after Fort Montgomery was taken, we determined to move to the Jerseys.
Accordingly I went to the Jerseys and settled matters with Miss. White and returned to make possible preparations for a removal, and on the six and twentieth day of November we took our departure from New Windsor with an Ox-cart and wagon, driving the cattle, hogs and sheep. This journey was attended with great fatigue. However, we arrived to Basking Ridge on the fifth day of December, 1777. Here we lived and kept the tavern in good credit and friendship with our neighbors, nothing happening material until March, 1779 at which time the confiscated farms were sold and I bought the farm I now possess. TIMOTHY BREWSTER"
SOURCE-Death Year
LDS Film 0944765, Item 1, "Brewster/Breuster Family Bible Records 1746-1858" indicates that Timothy
Brewster died in 1816.
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More About TIMOTHY BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Military service: Revolutionary War
More About PHEBE WOOD:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
More About SARAH YOUNGS:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and PHEBE WOOD are:
82. i. SAMUEL8 BREWSTER, b. 12 Jul 1775, ,Orange,NY; d. 22 Mar 1839, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (64th year).
83. ii. COL. JOHN BREWSTER, b. 15 Aug 1777, ,Orange,NY; d. 27 Aug 1822, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (46th
year).
84. iii. JARVIS WOOD BREWSTER, b. 23 Feb 1780, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 6 Mar 1844, Trenton, Oneida,
NY.
85. iv. MARY BREWSTER, b. 7 Apr 1782, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ (66th year).
v. ELIZABETH BREWSTER, b. 27 Feb 1785, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 5 Oct 1785, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (7m, 7d).
More About ELIZABETH BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
86. vi. NATHANIEL D. BREWSTER, b. 17 Oct 1786, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 Jun 1869, Coldenham,
Orange, NY.
87. vii. TIMOTHY BREWSTER, JR., b. 22 Apr 1789, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 2 May 1836, Newburgh, Orange,
NY.
Children of TIMOTHY BREWSTER and SARAH YOUNGS are:
88. viii. GEORGE YOUNGS8 BREWSTER, b. 28 Dec 1794, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 4 Jul 1853, Woodbridge,
Middlesex, NJ (59th year).
ix. JAMES BREWSTER, b. 12 Jun 1798, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ; d. 24 Mar 1799, Woodbridge, Middlesex,
NJ (9m, 12d).
More About JAMES BREWSTER:
Burial: First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
