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Dr Oliver Brewster

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Dr Oliver Brewster

Birth
Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death
15 Feb 1812 (aged 51)
Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
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Dr. Oliver Brewster, one of the officers in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Brown at the battle of Stone Arabia, in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., in October, 1780, was a surgeon, the only officer not from Pittsfield, his home at that time being at Partridgefield, now Peru.

He was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 2, 1760, and died February 12, 1812, at Becket, Mass., where, after leaving the army, he began, and continued till death, the practice of medicine. His father was of the fifth generation of Elder William Brewster, of the Plymouth colony, and his mother was of the third generation of Governor William Bradford, of the same company.

He was a godly man, and in the absence of a pastor, his solemn counsels to his patients, and his fervent prayers with and for them were blessed to their good. He was a faithful physician and successful, particularly in acute diseases. He fell in an apoplectic fit at a house where he was making a professional visit, dying in six hours later.

Dr. Oliver Brewster, served in Col. John Brown's Third Berkshire regiment as a was surgeon in the Revolutionary War at Stone Arabia, New York in the American Revolutionary War.

He was the first physician in Becket. His home, built in 1786, is still standing and is currently occupied by the Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA.
Dr. Oliver Brewster, one of the officers in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Brown at the battle of Stone Arabia, in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., in October, 1780, was a surgeon, the only officer not from Pittsfield, his home at that time being at Partridgefield, now Peru.

He was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 2, 1760, and died February 12, 1812, at Becket, Mass., where, after leaving the army, he began, and continued till death, the practice of medicine. His father was of the fifth generation of Elder William Brewster, of the Plymouth colony, and his mother was of the third generation of Governor William Bradford, of the same company.

He was a godly man, and in the absence of a pastor, his solemn counsels to his patients, and his fervent prayers with and for them were blessed to their good. He was a faithful physician and successful, particularly in acute diseases. He fell in an apoplectic fit at a house where he was making a professional visit, dying in six hours later.

Dr. Oliver Brewster, served in Col. John Brown's Third Berkshire regiment as a was surgeon in the Revolutionary War at Stone Arabia, New York in the American Revolutionary War.

He was the first physician in Becket. His home, built in 1786, is still standing and is currently occupied by the Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA.

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