My name is Jamie Joyce, I am trying to locate Pinkney Brewster, he was born around 1818. I know that he was in Franklin Co. Ga. in 1835 he was married there to Meaky Hix. I know of the birth of some of their children being in Cherokee Co.Ga. and Townes Co. Ga. After the Civil War his son Joshiah moved to Ten. with his mother,Pinkneys' wife, and their children, no mention of Pinkney. If anyone knows this name or has a suggestion I would like to hear from you.Thanks Jamie

-----Original Message----- From: diane <rkbdmb@ime.net> To: BREWSTER-L@rootsweb.com <BREWSTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 4:14 PM Subject: Alfred Brewster & Susan Godfrey I am at a total loss with my Brewster family. My father was Joseph Alfred Brewster and of course I have all of his info. His parents were Joseph Allen Brewster who mar. (2nd) Dorothy Shorey and had 6 children. So far so good, here is where I am lost. My grandfather came from Canada and had NO contact with his family from that time forward. I know his parents names were Alfred Brewster and Susan Godfrey. This is all I know. I don't even know if he had any siblings or anything. My grandfather (Joseph Allen Brewster) was b.7-Dec-1890 in I'm not sure which, either Harvey Bank New Brunswick Canada or Harney Nova Scotia Canada. he d. 21-March-1970 and is buried in Jackson, Maine. My grandmother is also deceased, so I have noone to ask questions and try to find info. I contacted an Aunt and all she said was he would NOT talk about his family. So, if anyone could help me I would be eternally gratefull! Thank-you, Diane my e-mail is rkbdmb@ime.net

Hello all! I am searching for info on my Brewster line. My gggggrandmother was Jane Brewster b. 1795<?> in SC<?> married Rhodam Doyle in 1807. I believe, at this point anyway, that her parents were James Brewster(Bruster) b. 1755 possibly son of a John and Elizabeth Sheriff? AND her mother Mildred Milly Downs b. ? possibly daughter of Capt. Henry Downs, Jr. and Frances Chew. Any help at all on this line would really be wonderful. I do know that Rhodam and wife Jane Brewster Doyle lived out their last days in Madison Co., Arkansas in the home of their daughter, Priscilla Doyle Denney and husband Burnett. Rhodam was listed as in their household and blind on census. Thank you so much for any connections to this line. Nancy Jackson tsalagi@train.missouri.org

I am searching for information regarding Benjamin F. Brewster, who lived in Meigs County, TN, in the 1850 census records. Benjamin moved his family to Independence County, AR, before 1860 and was living in Sharp County, AR, in 1880. His daughter, Virginia Brewster, married Caswell (Cas) G. Blackburn. They are my great-grandparents. Virginia died in childbirth before c1897 and her children were raised by various relatives. >From census records, Benjamin's children were: Mary F., James, Malissa J., Sarah E., Susan A., Martha Ellen, Alfred B. and Virginia J. Brewster. Any information regarding this family will be appreciated. Betty Helms Vinski betty_vinski@etsuodt.tamu-commerce.edu

Hi everyone, I am trying to find the parents and siblings of John M. Brewster, my gggrandfather. He was born in Essex Co, New Jersey according to his death certificate around the middle of 1826 or 1827. He died in Summit, New Jersey on December 4, 1902 while living with his daughter Harriet Emiline (Brewster) Tingley and her husband; Danile Compton Tingley, my ggrandparents. John was married to Phebe Bruen RIKER on January 7, 1846 in Madison by the Rev C.S. Arms, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. They had 9 children of whom 8 survived. They were William H (b: 1846). James B. (b: 1847), Henrietta (b: 1849), Mary F. (died in infancy), Mary Elizabeth (b: September 30, 1855), Harriett Emiline (b: September 27, 1857), Josephine Ridgeway (b: February 19, 1862), John Lincoln (b: July 1867), and Eva Caroline (b: January 1869). Any information about any of these individuals and their families greatly appreciated, but especially the parents, John and Phebe. They seem to have appeared out of thin air and lived most of their lives in Chatham Township without making too many ripples in the stream of village life. Thanks for any help. Fred M. Reinman (freinman@aol.com).

Dear Folks on the list, I have been searching the parentage of our JAMES MADISON BREWSTER. He was born 7 Apr 1787 in (unk), and died 20 Mar 1866 in Lauderdale Co., MS. I would love to correspond with any "cousins" out there that are connected tot he same line! I am including to the list this message that was sent to me by Sarah Mozingo of Choctaw Co., AL. Perhaps from it you will gain some clues that can help us both! "The following is an excerpt written by Gloria Brown Bruister. It is interesting, although probably of no help. While it mentions a Miss Edwards, there is no mention of Stephen. Since this is so long, I will send separately what I have on Joseph, which is very little. BRUISTER / BREWSTER The family name is English, originally Brewster. The Choctaw County line of the family has used various spellings. Old James Madison Brewster , himself, used three different spellings in official documents: Bruster, Brewster, Bruister. Only two of his children used the Bruister spelling. These two, James Washington and Sebastian Lafayette Bruister settled in Choctaw County, AL. Their brother, Hiram Hamilton Brewster who settled in Vimville, MS retained the old spelling, as did the other brothers and sisters and sisters and their half brothers and sisters. Various family tales have been told as to the reason for the change-mail getting mixed up because the names were the same, or the children of the first wife, not approving of James Madison's second wife, who was much younger than their own mother. However, I choose to believe a letter written February 20, 1904 by Malvenia Warham Ulmer Smith Brewster, wife of Eli Jefferson Brewster, and daughter - in-law of James Washington Bruister, to her sister-in-law, Hester Anna Brewster Carnathan. Copied from a paper taken from his father's own words, by Mr. E. J. Brewster in 1879: "James Madison Brewster married Mary Jane Smith, daughter of Coddington Smith, a merchant of N. C., and Englishman by birth. Coddington Smith died in the ocean on one of his return trips from England, where he had gone to buy goods. Coddington Smith's wife was Sarah Jernegan, a North Carolinian by birth. James Madison Brewster's father died while he was quite young. His mother was a Miss Bowen. She had a brother Joshua Bowen. The family name is English, and was originally Brewster. " "My father, James Madison, was one of nine children: James M., Washington, Hiram, Henry, Sallie, Nancy, Matilda, Malinda and one other daughter, name now forgotten." "Nancy married Henry Potts; Matilda married Sebastian Haupt; Malinda married Joe Wheat; Sallie married Joshua Scurlock; the other sister married a man named Campbell." "James Brewster had these children by Mary Smith: Columbus, James Washington, Hiram Hamilton, Sebastian Lafayette, Sarah Louvisa, and Mary Ann. (Stephen) (Louvisa is unknown). Sarah married James Burnett. Mary Ann married Jas. Edwards. " "Hester, you know Pa (James Washington Bruister) never changed the spelling of the name until his father married again. His second wife was Miss Edwards." "Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Mason, Geo. and Jim Brewster, near Meridian, Miss., were children of second marriage. They tell me their father lived and died "BREWSTER", and their brother, Washington, was the only one who changed the spelling. " "When I talked to Pa about it and begged him to put the name right, he said he could do it after his death. He had thought he was right at the time he did it." "We simply resume the original spelling. Better be wrong one generation than many!" Malvenia Brewster said in a letter of February 20, 1904: "I would have thought that Bro. Hiram's wife, Huberta Lang Nicholson, would have seen how sensible it was, to resume the old name." Sarah" Sincerely, Marion in Texas