MARY FOSTER BREWER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer was born in Roxbury on February 29, 1796, a leap year. She was a daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Miss Mary Foster Brewer and her second cousin, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, were married 1820 in Roxbury, and subsequently removed to Georgia. Their first Georgia residence was at Augusta. They also lived in Lexington, Georgia, before settling in Vineville where they built a home and educated their daughters at nearby Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon).
Mary Foster Brewer's mother Mary Foster died in 1805. Mary's stepmother, Elizabeth White Brewer, was a cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thus - and by other close family relationships and bloodlines, Mary Foster Brewer and her husband were from allied families as well as being cousins.
Mary's father John Foster was probably the John Foster recorded in Plymouth Vital Records, born November 13, 1740 to Nathaniel Foster and his first wife Mercy "Marcy" Thacher (Thatcher). Nathaniel's second wife was a Mayflower descendant. Mary Foster Brewer was not a Mayflower descendant. However, this ancestry validates both the Mayflower allied connection of family tradition and also the gift of Standish family heirlooms, by Mary's descendant Adeline Corbin Stone, to the Daughters of the American Revolution which Mrs. Stone presented with this provenance attached.
Mary Foster Brewer and Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were married on Tuesday, October 3, 1820, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Mary Foster Brewer was born in the leap year 1796. She was born on February 29th, which was a Monday. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Brewer, was a brother of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's grandfather, Stephen Brewer.
Joseph Brewer (Rebeckah Weld) and Stephen Brewer (Susanna White) were sons of Nathaniel Brewer III and his wife Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Both Mary Foster Brewer and her husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were great-grandchildren of Nathaniel III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Brewer is spelled Bruer in early Massachusetts records for this family. Brewer is not a name derived from occupation, but rather an old English name with probable French origin. While Daniel Brewer's parents and ancestors are not known, it is incorrect to assume any of his family were actually "brewers", although historically a brewery owner would have been a successful business person.
Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury
Father of Mary Foster Brewer. He was a son of Joseph Brewer and Rebecca (Rebecka, Rebekah, Rebeckah) Weld. Ebenezer Brewer was named for his grandfather, Ebenezer Weld.
Ebenezer Brewer was a nephew of Stephen Brewer and Susanna White, of Brookline. Stephen and Susanna are grandparents of Mary Foster Brewer's husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld, mother of Ebenezer Brewer
Rebekah Weld (Mrs. Joseph Brewer) was a daughter of Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld.
The Weld line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Edmund Weld and Amye
Captain Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise
John Weld and Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld and Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld and Mary Craft
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, her second cousin in the Brewer family and also cousin by several further ancestral lines. Mary Foster Brewer was by Joseph her father also a Weld, being descended from Reverend Thomas Weld (brother of Captain Joseph Weld) in the Brewer line.
The Craft line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Griffin Craft and Alice
Samuel Craft and Elizabeth Seaver
Samuel Craft, Jr. and Elizabeth Sharp
Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was Mary Foster Brewer's second cousin in the Brewer family. He was also a cousin by other ancestors, being a direct descendant of Griffin Craft and Alice, and a direct descendant of Edmund Weld and Amye.
Ebenezer Brewer or possibly his son (unclear in historical accounts) was a founder of the Universalist Church in Boston. Ebenezer the father certainly inclined to the Universalist faith vs. the establishment church. He was a resident of Roxbury. A collection of artisan receipts found in the Winterthur Museum collections includes several records of work performed for Ebenezer Brewer, showing he was actively making improvements to his Roxbury properties and homes up until the time he died. He had a son Ebenezer who died in very early middle age - at 29 years old, also in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In 1829, when her brother Ebenezer Jr. died, Mary Foster Brewer Brewer was living in Georgia as Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, with their three children Catherine Elizabeth, Adeline, and Edward Ebenezer Brewer (named for his two Brewer grandfathers).
http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0330.htm
Mary Foster Brewer's father Ebenezer Brewer, Sr. was trained in music, and thus able to organize musical performances for his church and the community, all which he is recorded to have done. As a descendant of Harvard College benefactors including Captain Joseph Weld, he will have had that opportunity, but may have attended any number of schools in New England with many colleges such as Dartmouth and Amherst also being directly associated with his family. No college has yet been identified but he was from a highly cultured and very educated family on all sides.
Mary Foster Brewer (Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer) was a direct descendant of Robert Seaver and Elizabeth Ballard, his wife, by way of her grandmother Rebeckah Weld Brewer (wife of Joseph Brewer). Rebeckah Weld was the daughter of Seaver descendant Mary Craft and her husband Ebenezer Weld. Rebeckah's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter.
Mary Foster Brewer Brewer's great-grandparents Elizabeth (Mayo) and Nathaniel Brewer III were married April 10, 1717 in Roxbury, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Their son Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld; and Joseph and Rebeckah's son Ebenezer Brewer married Mary Foster. Mary Foster Brewer Brewer (subject of this memorial) is the daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer. Note that Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo are also great-grandparents of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld Brewer's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Note that Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer are direct ancestors of (only) Mary Foster Brewer. Joseph Brewer's brother Stephen and his wife Susanna White are direct ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer were direct descendants of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II, and so in addition to Brewer they share all ancestors in the line to Joseph and Stephen - both are Weld descendants. Other shared lines include Rand, Whiting, Foote, Hewes, Hemingway, Holbrook, Graves, Mayo - a complete list can be compiled. Rebeckah Weld Brewer and Margaret Weld Brewer were from the same Weld family.
Mary's immigrant ancestor Griffin Craft was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1668 and of the military company of Roxbury.
The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, with the Best Wishes of the Author
By John William Linzee · 1918
https://books.google.com/books?id=dUZBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&gbmsitb=1#v=onepage&q=Griffin%20Craft%20&f=false
Griffin Craft is a direct ancestor of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer also. His Craft line comes through Mary Oliver Sparhawk, wife of Thomas. Hannah Craft married Nathaniel Wilson, and their daughter Mary Wilson married Captain Thomas Oliver. Their son Nathaniel Oliver married Bethia Hyde, and this couple were parents of Mary Oliver who married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Captain Joseph Weld
History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1888
By Oliver Ayer Roberts
https://books.google.com/books?id=36pNAQAAIAAJ&q=Weld#v=snippet&q=Weld&f=false
Joseph Brewer's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Joseph Brewer was a brother of Stephen Brewer.
Stephen, brother of Joseph, married Susannah White.
Stephen's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Susannah was the daughter of Hannah Wiswall and Major Edward White.
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
February 29, 1796 was the 60th day of the year 1796 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 306 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
SEAVER
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The Weld Family
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
WELD ONE - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld
Mary Craft
Rebecca Weld
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
WELD TWO - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld
Margaret Dereslye
Thomas Weld
Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer II
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary's half-brother, Albert Brewer of Roxbury, was a son of Elizabeth White and Ebenezer Brewer. Albert Brewer married Harriet Hyde Fay.
Page 89, Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and His Descendants, by Orlin Prentice Fay. Higginson Book Company, 1898 - 420 pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=BKZMAAAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Hyde#v=onepage&q=Harriet%20Hyde&f=true
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The daily sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 02, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014939/1871-02-02/ed-1/seq-2/
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The weekly sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 07, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034028/1871-02-07/ed-1/seq-4/
"We regret to record the death of Mrs. Mary Brewer, wife of Thos. A. Brewer, which occurred in Vineville yesterday. This worthy matron had seen more than three score years and ten, and there exists no doubt but that the world were better for her having lived in it."
— Macon Telegraph, February 1st, 1871
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer was born in Roxbury on February 29, 1796, a leap year. She was a daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Miss Mary Foster Brewer and her second cousin, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, were married 1820 in Roxbury, and subsequently removed to Georgia. Their first Georgia residence was at Augusta. They also lived in Lexington, Georgia, before settling in Vineville where they built a home and educated their daughters at nearby Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon).
Mary Foster Brewer's mother Mary Foster died in 1805. Mary's stepmother, Elizabeth White Brewer, was a cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thus - and by other close family relationships and bloodlines, Mary Foster Brewer and her husband were from allied families as well as being cousins.
Mary's father John Foster was probably the John Foster recorded in Plymouth Vital Records, born November 13, 1740 to Nathaniel Foster and his first wife Mercy "Marcy" Thacher (Thatcher). Nathaniel's second wife was a Mayflower descendant. Mary Foster Brewer was not a Mayflower descendant. However, this ancestry validates both the Mayflower allied connection of family tradition and also the gift of Standish family heirlooms, by Mary's descendant Adeline Corbin Stone, to the Daughters of the American Revolution which Mrs. Stone presented with this provenance attached.
Mary Foster Brewer and Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were married on Tuesday, October 3, 1820, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Mary Foster Brewer was born in the leap year 1796. She was born on February 29th, which was a Monday. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Brewer, was a brother of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's grandfather, Stephen Brewer.
Joseph Brewer (Rebeckah Weld) and Stephen Brewer (Susanna White) were sons of Nathaniel Brewer III and his wife Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Both Mary Foster Brewer and her husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were great-grandchildren of Nathaniel III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Brewer is spelled Bruer in early Massachusetts records for this family. Brewer is not a name derived from occupation, but rather an old English name with probable French origin. While Daniel Brewer's parents and ancestors are not known, it is incorrect to assume any of his family were actually "brewers", although historically a brewery owner would have been a successful business person.
Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury
Father of Mary Foster Brewer. He was a son of Joseph Brewer and Rebecca (Rebecka, Rebekah, Rebeckah) Weld. Ebenezer Brewer was named for his grandfather, Ebenezer Weld.
Ebenezer Brewer was a nephew of Stephen Brewer and Susanna White, of Brookline. Stephen and Susanna are grandparents of Mary Foster Brewer's husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld, mother of Ebenezer Brewer
Rebekah Weld (Mrs. Joseph Brewer) was a daughter of Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld.
The Weld line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Edmund Weld and Amye
Captain Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise
John Weld and Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld and Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld and Mary Craft
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, her second cousin in the Brewer family and also cousin by several further ancestral lines. Mary Foster Brewer was by Joseph her father also a Weld, being descended from Reverend Thomas Weld (brother of Captain Joseph Weld) in the Brewer line.
The Craft line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Griffin Craft and Alice
Samuel Craft and Elizabeth Seaver
Samuel Craft, Jr. and Elizabeth Sharp
Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was Mary Foster Brewer's second cousin in the Brewer family. He was also a cousin by other ancestors, being a direct descendant of Griffin Craft and Alice, and a direct descendant of Edmund Weld and Amye.
Ebenezer Brewer or possibly his son (unclear in historical accounts) was a founder of the Universalist Church in Boston. Ebenezer the father certainly inclined to the Universalist faith vs. the establishment church. He was a resident of Roxbury. A collection of artisan receipts found in the Winterthur Museum collections includes several records of work performed for Ebenezer Brewer, showing he was actively making improvements to his Roxbury properties and homes up until the time he died. He had a son Ebenezer who died in very early middle age - at 29 years old, also in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In 1829, when her brother Ebenezer Jr. died, Mary Foster Brewer Brewer was living in Georgia as Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, with their three children Catherine Elizabeth, Adeline, and Edward Ebenezer Brewer (named for his two Brewer grandfathers).
http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0330.htm
Mary Foster Brewer's father Ebenezer Brewer, Sr. was trained in music, and thus able to organize musical performances for his church and the community, all which he is recorded to have done. As a descendant of Harvard College benefactors including Captain Joseph Weld, he will have had that opportunity, but may have attended any number of schools in New England with many colleges such as Dartmouth and Amherst also being directly associated with his family. No college has yet been identified but he was from a highly cultured and very educated family on all sides.
Mary Foster Brewer (Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer) was a direct descendant of Robert Seaver and Elizabeth Ballard, his wife, by way of her grandmother Rebeckah Weld Brewer (wife of Joseph Brewer). Rebeckah Weld was the daughter of Seaver descendant Mary Craft and her husband Ebenezer Weld. Rebeckah's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter.
Mary Foster Brewer Brewer's great-grandparents Elizabeth (Mayo) and Nathaniel Brewer III were married April 10, 1717 in Roxbury, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Their son Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld; and Joseph and Rebeckah's son Ebenezer Brewer married Mary Foster. Mary Foster Brewer Brewer (subject of this memorial) is the daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer. Note that Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo are also great-grandparents of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld Brewer's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Note that Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer are direct ancestors of (only) Mary Foster Brewer. Joseph Brewer's brother Stephen and his wife Susanna White are direct ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer were direct descendants of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II, and so in addition to Brewer they share all ancestors in the line to Joseph and Stephen - both are Weld descendants. Other shared lines include Rand, Whiting, Foote, Hewes, Hemingway, Holbrook, Graves, Mayo - a complete list can be compiled. Rebeckah Weld Brewer and Margaret Weld Brewer were from the same Weld family.
Mary's immigrant ancestor Griffin Craft was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1668 and of the military company of Roxbury.
The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, with the Best Wishes of the Author
By John William Linzee · 1918
https://books.google.com/books?id=dUZBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&gbmsitb=1#v=onepage&q=Griffin%20Craft%20&f=false
Griffin Craft is a direct ancestor of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer also. His Craft line comes through Mary Oliver Sparhawk, wife of Thomas. Hannah Craft married Nathaniel Wilson, and their daughter Mary Wilson married Captain Thomas Oliver. Their son Nathaniel Oliver married Bethia Hyde, and this couple were parents of Mary Oliver who married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Captain Joseph Weld
History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1888
By Oliver Ayer Roberts
https://books.google.com/books?id=36pNAQAAIAAJ&q=Weld#v=snippet&q=Weld&f=false
Joseph Brewer's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Joseph Brewer was a brother of Stephen Brewer.
Stephen, brother of Joseph, married Susannah White.
Stephen's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Susannah was the daughter of Hannah Wiswall and Major Edward White.
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
February 29, 1796 was the 60th day of the year 1796 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 306 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
SEAVER
https://books.google.com/books?id=fxlJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=ralph+Holbrook+Dorothy+Williams&source=bl&ots=X7iYhyXR5o&sig=ACfU3U06dERNBpOQZ7u3mAAD9XVKb7gVWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDycGX3ZDyAhVqZzABHYZcD6gQ6AEwEnoECAkQAg#v=snippet&q=Seaver&f=false
The Weld Family
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
WELD ONE - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld
Mary Craft
Rebecca Weld
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
WELD TWO - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld
Margaret Dereslye
Thomas Weld
Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer II
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary's half-brother, Albert Brewer of Roxbury, was a son of Elizabeth White and Ebenezer Brewer. Albert Brewer married Harriet Hyde Fay.
Page 89, Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and His Descendants, by Orlin Prentice Fay. Higginson Book Company, 1898 - 420 pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=BKZMAAAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Hyde#v=onepage&q=Harriet%20Hyde&f=true
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The daily sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 02, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014939/1871-02-02/ed-1/seq-2/
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The weekly sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 07, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034028/1871-02-07/ed-1/seq-4/
"We regret to record the death of Mrs. Mary Brewer, wife of Thos. A. Brewer, which occurred in Vineville yesterday. This worthy matron had seen more than three score years and ten, and there exists no doubt but that the world were better for her having lived in it."
— Macon Telegraph, February 1st, 1871
MARY FOSTER BREWER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer was born in Roxbury on February 29, 1796, a leap year. She was a daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Miss Mary Foster Brewer and her second cousin, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, were married 1820 in Roxbury, and subsequently removed to Georgia. Their first Georgia residence was at Augusta. They also lived in Lexington, Georgia, before settling in Vineville where they built a home and educated their daughters at nearby Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon).
Mary Foster Brewer's mother Mary Foster died in 1805. Mary's stepmother, Elizabeth White Brewer, was a cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thus - and by other close family relationships and bloodlines, Mary Foster Brewer and her husband were from allied families as well as being cousins.
Mary's father John Foster was probably the John Foster recorded in Plymouth Vital Records, born November 13, 1740 to Nathaniel Foster and his first wife Mercy "Marcy" Thacher (Thatcher). Nathaniel's second wife was a Mayflower descendant. Mary Foster Brewer was not a Mayflower descendant. However, this ancestry validates both the Mayflower allied connection of family tradition and also the gift of Standish family heirlooms, by Mary's descendant Adeline Corbin Stone, to the Daughters of the American Revolution which Mrs. Stone presented with this provenance attached.
Mary Foster Brewer and Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were married on Tuesday, October 3, 1820, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Mary Foster Brewer was born in the leap year 1796. She was born on February 29th, which was a Monday. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Brewer, was a brother of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's grandfather, Stephen Brewer.
Joseph Brewer (Rebeckah Weld) and Stephen Brewer (Susanna White) were sons of Nathaniel Brewer III and his wife Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Both Mary Foster Brewer and her husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were great-grandchildren of Nathaniel III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Brewer is spelled Bruer in early Massachusetts records for this family. Brewer is not a name derived from occupation, but rather an old English name with probable French origin. While Daniel Brewer's parents and ancestors are not known, it is incorrect to assume any of his family were actually "brewers", although historically a brewery owner would have been a successful business person.
Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury
Father of Mary Foster Brewer. He was a son of Joseph Brewer and Rebecca (Rebecka, Rebekah, Rebeckah) Weld. Ebenezer Brewer was named for his grandfather, Ebenezer Weld.
Ebenezer Brewer was a nephew of Stephen Brewer and Susanna White, of Brookline. Stephen and Susanna are grandparents of Mary Foster Brewer's husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld, mother of Ebenezer Brewer
Rebekah Weld (Mrs. Joseph Brewer) was a daughter of Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld.
The Weld line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Edmund Weld and Amye
Captain Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise
John Weld and Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld and Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld and Mary Craft
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, her second cousin in the Brewer family and also cousin by several further ancestral lines. Mary Foster Brewer was by Joseph her father also a Weld, being descended from Reverend Thomas Weld (brother of Captain Joseph Weld) in the Brewer line.
The Craft line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Griffin Craft and Alice
Samuel Craft and Elizabeth Seaver
Samuel Craft, Jr. and Elizabeth Sharp
Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was Mary Foster Brewer's second cousin in the Brewer family. He was also a cousin by other ancestors, being a direct descendant of Griffin Craft and Alice, and a direct descendant of Edmund Weld and Amye.
Ebenezer Brewer or possibly his son (unclear in historical accounts) was a founder of the Universalist Church in Boston. Ebenezer the father certainly inclined to the Universalist faith vs. the establishment church. He was a resident of Roxbury. A collection of artisan receipts found in the Winterthur Museum collections includes several records of work performed for Ebenezer Brewer, showing he was actively making improvements to his Roxbury properties and homes up until the time he died. He had a son Ebenezer who died in very early middle age - at 29 years old, also in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In 1829, when her brother Ebenezer Jr. died, Mary Foster Brewer Brewer was living in Georgia as Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, with their three children Catherine Elizabeth, Adeline, and Edward Ebenezer Brewer (named for his two Brewer grandfathers).
http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0330.htm
Mary Foster Brewer's father Ebenezer Brewer, Sr. was trained in music, and thus able to organize musical performances for his church and the community, all which he is recorded to have done. As a descendant of Harvard College benefactors including Captain Joseph Weld, he will have had that opportunity, but may have attended any number of schools in New England with many colleges such as Dartmouth and Amherst also being directly associated with his family. No college has yet been identified but he was from a highly cultured and very educated family on all sides.
Mary Foster Brewer (Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer) was a direct descendant of Robert Seaver and Elizabeth Ballard, his wife, by way of her grandmother Rebeckah Weld Brewer (wife of Joseph Brewer). Rebeckah Weld was the daughter of Seaver descendant Mary Craft and her husband Ebenezer Weld. Rebeckah's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter.
Mary Foster Brewer Brewer's great-grandparents Elizabeth (Mayo) and Nathaniel Brewer III were married April 10, 1717 in Roxbury, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Their son Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld; and Joseph and Rebeckah's son Ebenezer Brewer married Mary Foster. Mary Foster Brewer Brewer (subject of this memorial) is the daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer. Note that Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo are also great-grandparents of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld Brewer's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Note that Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer are direct ancestors of (only) Mary Foster Brewer. Joseph Brewer's brother Stephen and his wife Susanna White are direct ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer were direct descendants of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II, and so in addition to Brewer they share all ancestors in the line to Joseph and Stephen - both are Weld descendants. Other shared lines include Rand, Whiting, Foote, Hewes, Hemingway, Holbrook, Graves, Mayo - a complete list can be compiled. Rebeckah Weld Brewer and Margaret Weld Brewer were from the same Weld family.
Mary's immigrant ancestor Griffin Craft was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1668 and of the military company of Roxbury.
The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, with the Best Wishes of the Author
By John William Linzee · 1918
https://books.google.com/books?id=dUZBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume&gbmsitb=1#v=onepage&q=Griffin%20Craft%20&f=false
Griffin Craft is a direct ancestor of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer also. His Craft line comes through Mary Oliver Sparhawk, wife of Thomas. Hannah Craft married Nathaniel Wilson, and their daughter Mary Wilson married Captain Thomas Oliver. Their son Nathaniel Oliver married Bethia Hyde, and this couple were parents of Mary Oliver who married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Captain Joseph Weld
History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1888
By Oliver Ayer Roberts
https://books.google.com/books?id=36pNAQAAIAAJ&q=Weld#v=snippet&q=Weld&f=false
Joseph Brewer's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Joseph Brewer was a brother of Stephen Brewer.
Stephen, brother of Joseph, married Susannah White.
Stephen's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Susannah was the daughter of Hannah Wiswall and Major Edward White.
BREWER
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February 29, 1796 was the 60th day of the year 1796 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 306 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
SEAVER
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The Weld Family
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
WELD ONE - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld
Mary Craft
Rebecca Weld
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
WELD TWO - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld
Margaret Dereslye
Thomas Weld
Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer II
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary's half-brother, Albert Brewer of Roxbury, was a son of Elizabeth White and Ebenezer Brewer. Albert Brewer married Harriet Hyde Fay.
Page 89, Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and His Descendants, by Orlin Prentice Fay. Higginson Book Company, 1898 - 420 pages.
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Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The daily sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 02, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014939/1871-02-02/ed-1/seq-2/
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The weekly sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 07, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034028/1871-02-07/ed-1/seq-4/
"We regret to record the death of Mrs. Mary Brewer, wife of Thos. A. Brewer, which occurred in Vineville yesterday. This worthy matron had seen more than three score years and ten, and there exists no doubt but that the world were better for her having lived in it."
— Macon Telegraph, February 1st, 1871
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary Foster Brewer was born in Roxbury on February 29, 1796, a leap year. She was a daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Miss Mary Foster Brewer and her second cousin, Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, were married 1820 in Roxbury, and subsequently removed to Georgia. Their first Georgia residence was at Augusta. They also lived in Lexington, Georgia, before settling in Vineville where they built a home and educated their daughters at nearby Georgia Female College (now Wesleyan College, Macon).
Mary Foster Brewer's mother Mary Foster died in 1805. Mary's stepmother, Elizabeth White Brewer, was a cousin of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thus - and by other close family relationships and bloodlines, Mary Foster Brewer and her husband were from allied families as well as being cousins.
Mary's father John Foster was probably the John Foster recorded in Plymouth Vital Records, born November 13, 1740 to Nathaniel Foster and his first wife Mercy "Marcy" Thacher (Thatcher). Nathaniel's second wife was a Mayflower descendant. Mary Foster Brewer was not a Mayflower descendant. However, this ancestry validates both the Mayflower allied connection of family tradition and also the gift of Standish family heirlooms, by Mary's descendant Adeline Corbin Stone, to the Daughters of the American Revolution which Mrs. Stone presented with this provenance attached.
Mary Foster Brewer and Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were married on Tuesday, October 3, 1820, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Mary Foster Brewer was born in the leap year 1796. She was born on February 29th, which was a Monday. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Brewer, was a brother of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer's grandfather, Stephen Brewer.
Joseph Brewer (Rebeckah Weld) and Stephen Brewer (Susanna White) were sons of Nathaniel Brewer III and his wife Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Both Mary Foster Brewer and her husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer were great-grandchildren of Nathaniel III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Brewer is spelled Bruer in early Massachusetts records for this family. Brewer is not a name derived from occupation, but rather an old English name with probable French origin. While Daniel Brewer's parents and ancestors are not known, it is incorrect to assume any of his family were actually "brewers", although historically a brewery owner would have been a successful business person.
Ebenezer Brewer, of Roxbury
Father of Mary Foster Brewer. He was a son of Joseph Brewer and Rebecca (Rebecka, Rebekah, Rebeckah) Weld. Ebenezer Brewer was named for his grandfather, Ebenezer Weld.
Ebenezer Brewer was a nephew of Stephen Brewer and Susanna White, of Brookline. Stephen and Susanna are grandparents of Mary Foster Brewer's husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld, mother of Ebenezer Brewer
Rebekah Weld (Mrs. Joseph Brewer) was a daughter of Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld.
The Weld line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Edmund Weld and Amye
Captain Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise
John Weld and Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld and Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld and Mary Craft
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, her second cousin in the Brewer family and also cousin by several further ancestral lines. Mary Foster Brewer was by Joseph her father also a Weld, being descended from Reverend Thomas Weld (brother of Captain Joseph Weld) in the Brewer line.
The Craft line to Mary Foster Brewer:
Griffin Craft and Alice
Samuel Craft and Elizabeth Seaver
Samuel Craft, Jr. and Elizabeth Sharp
Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld
Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer and Mary Foster
Mary Foster Brewer married Thomas Aspinwall Brewer. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer was Mary Foster Brewer's second cousin in the Brewer family. He was also a cousin by other ancestors, being a direct descendant of Griffin Craft and Alice, and a direct descendant of Edmund Weld and Amye.
Ebenezer Brewer or possibly his son (unclear in historical accounts) was a founder of the Universalist Church in Boston. Ebenezer the father certainly inclined to the Universalist faith vs. the establishment church. He was a resident of Roxbury. A collection of artisan receipts found in the Winterthur Museum collections includes several records of work performed for Ebenezer Brewer, showing he was actively making improvements to his Roxbury properties and homes up until the time he died. He had a son Ebenezer who died in very early middle age - at 29 years old, also in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
In 1829, when her brother Ebenezer Jr. died, Mary Foster Brewer Brewer was living in Georgia as Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer, with their three children Catherine Elizabeth, Adeline, and Edward Ebenezer Brewer (named for his two Brewer grandfathers).
http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0330.htm
Mary Foster Brewer's father Ebenezer Brewer, Sr. was trained in music, and thus able to organize musical performances for his church and the community, all which he is recorded to have done. As a descendant of Harvard College benefactors including Captain Joseph Weld, he will have had that opportunity, but may have attended any number of schools in New England with many colleges such as Dartmouth and Amherst also being directly associated with his family. No college has yet been identified but he was from a highly cultured and very educated family on all sides.
Mary Foster Brewer (Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer) was a direct descendant of Robert Seaver and Elizabeth Ballard, his wife, by way of her grandmother Rebeckah Weld Brewer (wife of Joseph Brewer). Rebeckah Weld was the daughter of Seaver descendant Mary Craft and her husband Ebenezer Weld. Rebeckah's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter.
Mary Foster Brewer Brewer's great-grandparents Elizabeth (Mayo) and Nathaniel Brewer III were married April 10, 1717 in Roxbury, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Their son Joseph Brewer married Rebeckah Weld; and Joseph and Rebeckah's son Ebenezer Brewer married Mary Foster. Mary Foster Brewer Brewer (subject of this memorial) is the daughter of Mary Foster and Ebenezer Brewer. Note that Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo are also great-grandparents of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Rebeckah Weld Brewer's parents Mary Craft and Ebenezer Weld were married on November 18, 1725 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by the Reverend Nehemiah Walter. Note that Rebeckah Weld and Joseph Brewer are direct ancestors of (only) Mary Foster Brewer. Joseph Brewer's brother Stephen and his wife Susanna White are direct ancestors of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
Both Thomas Aspinwall Brewer and his wife Mary Foster Brewer Brewer were direct descendants of Margaret Weld and Nathaniel Brewer II, and so in addition to Brewer they share all ancestors in the line to Joseph and Stephen - both are Weld descendants. Other shared lines include Rand, Whiting, Foote, Hewes, Hemingway, Holbrook, Graves, Mayo - a complete list can be compiled. Rebeckah Weld Brewer and Margaret Weld Brewer were from the same Weld family.
Mary's immigrant ancestor Griffin Craft was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1668 and of the military company of Roxbury.
The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, with the Best Wishes of the Author
By John William Linzee · 1918
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Griffin Craft is a direct ancestor of Thomas Aspinwall Brewer also. His Craft line comes through Mary Oliver Sparhawk, wife of Thomas. Hannah Craft married Nathaniel Wilson, and their daughter Mary Wilson married Captain Thomas Oliver. Their son Nathaniel Oliver married Bethia Hyde, and this couple were parents of Mary Oliver who married Hon. Thomas Sparhawk of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Captain Joseph Weld
History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1888
By Oliver Ayer Roberts
https://books.google.com/books?id=36pNAQAAIAAJ&q=Weld#v=snippet&q=Weld&f=false
Joseph Brewer's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer.
Joseph Brewer was a brother of Stephen Brewer.
Stephen, brother of Joseph, married Susannah White.
Stephen's parents were Nathaniel Brewer III and Elizabeth Mayo Brewer. Susannah was the daughter of Hannah Wiswall and Major Edward White.
BREWER
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567&view=1up&seq=142&skin=2021
February 29, 1796 was the 60th day of the year 1796 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 306 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
SEAVER
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The Weld Family
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
WELD ONE - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Captain Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Lt. Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Ebenezer Weld
Mary Craft
Rebecca Weld
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
WELD TWO - Mary Foster Brewer
Edmund Weld
Amye
Reverend Thomas Weld
Margaret Dereslye
Thomas Weld
Dorothy Whiting
Margaret Weld
Nathaniel Brewer II
Nathaniel Brewer III
Elizabeth Mayo
Corporal Joseph Brewer
Rebecca Weld
Ebenezer Brewer
Mary "Polly" Foster
MARY FOSTER BREWER
Mrs. Thomas Aspinwall Brewer
Mary's half-brother, Albert Brewer of Roxbury, was a son of Elizabeth White and Ebenezer Brewer. Albert Brewer married Harriet Hyde Fay.
Page 89, Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and His Descendants, by Orlin Prentice Fay. Higginson Book Company, 1898 - 420 pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=BKZMAAAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Hyde#v=onepage&q=Harriet%20Hyde&f=true
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The daily sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 02, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014939/1871-02-02/ed-1/seq-2/
Death of Mary Foster (Brewer) Brewer
— The weekly sun. (Columbus, Ga.) on February 07, 1871
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034028/1871-02-07/ed-1/seq-4/
"We regret to record the death of Mrs. Mary Brewer, wife of Thos. A. Brewer, which occurred in Vineville yesterday. This worthy matron had seen more than three score years and ten, and there exists no doubt but that the world were better for her having lived in it."
— Macon Telegraph, February 1st, 1871
Inscription
Wife of Thomas A. Brewer
Gravesite Details
On same marker with husband Thomas Aspinwall Brewer.
