BREWSTER, John (1604-77), of Wyfields, Ilford, Essex.

Family and Education

bap. 12 Apr. 1604, 4th s. of Francis Brewster (d. 1644) of Wrentham, Suff. and Elizabeth, da. of Robert Snelling of Ipswich, Suff.;J.S.E., ‘Brewster fam.’, E. Anglian Misc. (1908), 62; Vis. Norf. 1664, 252; Vis. Suff. 1561, 1577 and 1612, 118. bro. of Robert Brewster* and Francis Brewster I*. educ. L. Inn 20 May 1623; called 1630.LI Admiss. i. 193; LI Black Bks. ii. 295. m. bef. 1639, Mary, da. of Augustine Skottowe of Norwich, Norf. 3s. 1da.Vis. Norf. 1664, 200, 252; ‘Brewster fam.’, 62, 73. d. 27 July 1677.Vis. Norf. 1664, 252; RCHM Essex, ii. 7.

Offices Held

Local: commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Norf. 1 June 1643; regulating Camb. Univ. aft. Mar. 1644;Cooper, Annals Camb. iii. 372. commr. I. of Ely, Norf. 12 Aug. 1645; assessment, Essex 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Norf. 16 Feb. 1648.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Member, Essex co. cttee. by Oct. 1647.H. Smith, ‘Some Essex Parliamentarians, 1642–1653’, Essex Review, xxxiii. 152. J.p. Essex 6 Oct. 1653-bef. Oct. 1660.Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxiv. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654; militia, 26 July 1659.A. and O.

Religious: trustee, meeting-house, Barking, Essex 1653.A. and O.

: of Wyfields, Essex., Ilford.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BREWSTER, John (1604-77), of Wyfields, Ilford, Essex.

Will

not found.

Estates

bought manor of Wyfields, Ilford, Essex.Morant, Essex, i. bk. ii. 8; VCH Essex, v. 214.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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