Brewster, Benjamin, 1633 - 1710

Benjamin Brewster was the son of Jonathan Brewster of Scrooby, Nottingham, England and of Duxbury, Massachusetts.  He removed to New London with his father by 1659 and had two hundred acres of land granted to him by the Connecticut General Court at Poquatonnock Brook in 1668.  Brewster was deputy to the court (1668) and lieutenant of New London troops (1673), a position he held during King Philip’s War.  In 1685 he became one of the founders of the Town of Norwich and eight years later was elected a town commissioner.  Royal Ralph Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1852), 329-330.  Caulkins, History of the Norwich, Connecticut, 151.