Notice: In Robbinston, 30 June 1832, John Brewer, late of Robbinston, admin. Hannah Brewer and J.N.M. Brewer (Eastport Sentinel, July 11, 1832)

Deaths: In Robbinston, 5 March 1832, tribute to Gen. John Brewer (Eastport Sentinel, March 14, 1832)

d. Robbinston, Maine U.S.A. Tuesday age 69 Gen. John BREWER (Saint John New Brunswick Courier, March 10, 1832)

Deaths: In Robbinston, 5 March, 1832, Gen. John Brewer, 69 years (Eastport Sentinel, March 7, 1832)

John Brewer was probably the magistrate who took several depositions for the Boundary Commissioners in 1797 and he purchased both Dochet Island and the smaller one in 1820 for $30.
On August 13, 1826 "John Brewer of Robbinston, in consideration of six hundred dollars from Stephen Brewer of Northampton, Mass. , Gentleman....remise release bargain sell and convey....an Island commonly called St. Croix Island in Schoodic River, nearly opposite the south east corner of Calais, together with the house, barn and all other buildings thereon, and also the wharf and all other improvements on or about said island"
(Transactions, Volume 8 By Royal Astronomical Society of Canada)

John Brewer was one of the petitioners for a Grand Lodge in Calais in 1822. (Annals of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick)

Robbinston John Brewer (born) Massachusetts,(compensation)138 57
(Maine Post Offices 1816)

(After the British seized Eastport during the War of 1812) "Next day Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzherbert sent a letter from St. Andrews to John Brewer of Robbinston Brigadier-General of the Militia in Washington county, stating, by order of Major General Sir John C. Sherbrooke , that the object of the British government in the present expedition was to obtain possession of the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay as being within the British boundary line; that there was no design to carry on offensive operations against the people resident on the main...."
(The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, A.D ..., Volume 2)

The counterfeit coins in time were traced to St. Andrews and from there to Robbinston, where it developed that three men were operating at a hidden location on the shore of a lake, which has since that time been called Moneymaker Lake. The discovery of the counterfeit operation, sometimes called coining, would lead to the killing of John Downes, who was deputized to serve a warrant on Ebenezer Ball, the accused leader of the counterfeiting operation.
John Balkan was the magistrate at Robbinston who ordered the arrest of Ball on the warrant of Stephen Brewer of Calais. On January 26, 1811, he and John Brewer questioned Ball, who had been brought before them by John Downes, but they found the warrant deficient for lack of evidence and released Ball. However, on January 27 new evidence apparently in the form of the testimony of Sam Jones, a surveyor, was given before Justice Balkam, and Ball was ordered to be brought before Balkam and Brewer a second time. (The Quoddy Tides, June 24, 2011)


1810, the inhabitants petitioned for incorporation as a town; and appointed as a committee to present it, John Brewer, Thomas Vose, John Balkham, Obadiah Allen, Abel Brooks, Job Jonson and Thaddeus Sibly which petition was granted, and the required act passed, February 18, 1811.
(History of Robbinston, Maine From A Gazetteer of the State of Maine)

Then came John BREWER, one of the best of men, with his father, mother and brother, Stephen BREWER. He built his house in 1791. Mr. Brewer married Miss Hannah MARKS of St. Stephen.
(Early Days on the St. Croix)

After the Revolutionary War
Robbinston Jacob Boyden, William Bugbee, John Brewer, Samuel Jones, Joseph Porter, Samuel Leshure, Thomas Vose and others (The First English Settlements in Eastern Maine)