I am new to the list and am asking for assistance and suggestions with the Brewster (also spelled Bruster) surname. I am specifically interested in the siblings and parents of James Brewster who is said to have been born near Coleraine Londonderry about 1720. He came to America as a young man, and probably married in America, but possibly in Ireland. His wife was Eleanor Williamson. James Brewster was in Augusta County (later Rockingham County) Virginia by the mid-1700s, but he may have been in Pennsylvania prior to that. His daughter Agnes married William Alexander in Rockingham County in Nov. 1785. Shortly after their marriage, they, James and Eleanor and William's parents along with several other related families, moved to Jessamine and Fayette Counties in Kentucky. James died there in 1808 and Eleanor died there in 1813. According to a passage in a book published in 1915, James Brewster and James Dunn were lifelong friends, living "three miles from Coloraine, County Londonderry ... [they] lived within a mile of each other in Ireland, within a half mile in Virginia, died and were buried near each other in Jessamine County, Kentucky." This same writer claims that he has consulted a genealogist who stated that "Their antecedents [James Brewster and James Dunn] were in Ireland at least a hundred years before they were born in the same locality." The Brewster and Dunn families intermarried in America through several generations. Other common family name connections are Campbell, Doak, Alexander, and Irwin/Erwin. It seems that the Brewster family was Protestant, possibly Presbyterian, but that is not proven. I have several documents from both Virginia and Kentucky to establish James and Eleanor Williamson Brewster in those localities during specific time frames. I have considerable information on the descendants of James Dunn, James Brewster and William Alexander which I am happy to share. I would be appreciative of information on James Brewster's siblings and parents as well as suggestions for research to locate them in Irish records. Thanks, Connie Connie Shotts North Carolina