BREWER Daniel[1]

Male 1699 - 1773  (74 years)


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  • Name BREWER Daniel 
    Birth 25 Mar 1699  Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    _UID AFE40D38EB9ED5118A064445535400000746 
    Death 1 Dec 1773  [2
    Notes 
    • Daniel and Eleanor lived in Middletown. At the September 1724 term of the Hartford Superior Court, Eleanor Brewer, daughter of Richard Goodale of East Middletown, petitioned for a divorce, stating that on 18 January last it had been five years since she married Daniel Brewer, son of Thomas of Glastonbury. Both parties appeared. Her petition was not granted, and the following September their first child, Hezekiak, was born.

      On 3 August 1726, Richard Goodale, Jr. deeded "for the love, goodwill, and parental affection that I have unto my only daughter Elenor, now the wife of Daniel Brewer of said Middletown and to her son Hezekiah, now her only son," one half rod at the southeast corner of his own homelot, "so long as they [Daniel and Eleanor] live together." The land was described as bounded northwest on Goodale's own property, east on a highway, and south on land of Captain George Phillips.

      Daniel Brewer did not receive any land from his own father, but he shared in the distribution of his brother Alexander's estate. In 1727 he purchased for £10 from Joanna Wilcox one acre of land near the Plains and adjoining the river at Churchill's landing (now Goodspeed's), Portland.

      The records of the East Middletown First Society show that on 1 December 1728, Daniel Bruer was to dig graves.

      Richard Goodale again deeded land to his daughter's family on 2 January 1734/5, when he gave to "my son Daniel Bruer and daughter, Elenor Bruer and my grandson Richard Bruer, all of Middletown," three quarters of an acre out of his own homelot, bounded southeast and southwest on highways, northeast on land of Jonas Wright, and northwest on land of Benoni Brown. Hezekiah was of East Haddam when he sold this property 16 January 1754.

      On 13 December 1751 Daniel Brewer of Middletown sold to his brother Joseph Brewer of Glastonbury, for £25, the land "divided to him" from the estate of their brother Alexander. On 28 December 1754, Daniel Brewer and wife Elenor of Middletown deeded to their son Daniel, also of Middletown, "one acre in our homelot, on the east side of the Connecticut River, bounded west on the River, northwest on a highway or Landing Place, and east and south on our own land." Then on 16 February 1756, Daniel and Elenor deeded to their son Hezekiah one acre in their own homelot on the east side of the Connecticut River, bounded on the east by the river, northwest on the highway, west on land they had given their son Daniel, and east and south on their own land. By a deed dated 6 April 1759, witnessed by Eleanor Powell, they conveyed to Martha Churchill, wife of Josiah, and Jonas Powers, one acre in Brush Pond Field, bounded east on land of Giles Hall, south on land of Timothy Cornwell, west on land of John Diggins, and north on their own land.

      In May 1759, Daniel Brewer was granted permission to keep a ferry from the building yard in the North Society in Middletown to the East [Middletown] Society, granted on a petition of the inhabitants of Middletown. In the book "Middletown Upper Houses", Charles Collard Adams mentions that "[when] the three sons of the founders of Glastonbury crossed the 'great river' in 1709 and made a settlement, starting a 'Society', which meant the opening of a school and the erection of a church, it was important that there should be convenient ferry privileges, but the first record is May 1759." He quotes: "On memorial of Daniel Brewer and sundry other inhabitants of Middletown showing that there is a need of a ferry across the Connecticut river from the building yard in the north society called Upper Houses as appears by memorial on file...liberty is granted to Mr. Brewer and rates are established." This ferry was located at a point some distance above the ship building yard, to what later became known as Indian Avenue, on the east side of the river. Indian Avenue marked a road laid out where the first settlement was made on the east side, and Mr. Adams notes that there are "on it today some very ancient houses."

      Daniel Brewer evidently was a stone carver. He appears to have been in the quarry business with members of the Stanclift family, and it has been suggested that he was the stonecarver known as "The Glastonbury Lady." Ernest Caulfield, M.D., in an article entitled "Connecticut Gravestones," in "Connecticut Historical Society Collections", 19:105-108, noted that this carver, called 'aggravatingly elusive,' and the most popular stonecutter in Glastonbury in the 1730s, produced three different types of gravestones. "Many of his best stones were made for women, and the hair arrangement on his faces, even on stones for men, usually has a distinctively feminine appearance." Dr. Caulfield's papers suggest that at least some of these stones were produced by Daniel Brewer. No evidence is available to determine which stones Brewer actually carved, but he sold three sets of gravestones to Joshua Hempstead of New London in 1736, four pairs in 1751, and six pairs in 1752. The stone for his son David Brewer, who died in 1737, in Portland, Connecticut, is typical of the most simple style used by the Glastonbury Lady carver, its only design a simple floral circle in each finial. Richard Goodale, Brewer's father-in-law, has a typical "Glastonbury Lady" stone. A stone in Cheshire, Connecticut, for John Beach (1785), is signed "S. Brewer sculpt.," and it is notable that Daniel Brewer had a son named Seth, who may have carved the design on the stone before his own death a few years earlier.
    Person ID I10091  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2004 

    Father BREWER Thomas,   b. Abt 1655, New England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1742/3 (Age ~ 88 years) 
    Mother KEENEY Sarah,   b. Abt 1664   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 18 Jan 1682/3  Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Family ID F2152  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family GOODALE Eleanor,   b. 26 Aug 1701   d. 15 Dec 1776 (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 19 Jan 1718/9  Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. BREWER Hezekiah,   b. 26 Sep 1725, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Jan 1754 (Age > 29 years)
     2. BREWER Eleanor,   b. 2 Jan 1726/7, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +3. BREWER Edward,   b. 24 Aug 1728, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1800, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 73 years)
     4. BREWER Richard,   b. 21 Feb 1729/30, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. BREWER Daniel,   b. 3 May 1731, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. BREWER Anna   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. BREWER David,   b. 15 Feb 1735/6, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 1737 (Age 1 year)
     8. BREWER Seth,   b. 21 May 1738, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jan 1777 (Age 38 years)
     9. BREWER Remembrance,   b. 2 Mar 1740/1   d. Yes, date unknown
    +10. BREWER Joanna,   b. 29 Jun 1740/1, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F2137  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S202] Book-Brewer-Descendants of Thomas Brewer, pp.24-27.

    2. [S202] Book-Brewer-Descendants of Thomas Brewer, p.24.

    3. [S202] Book-Brewer-Descendants of Thomas Brewer, p.1.

    4. [S145] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.96.

    5. [S199] Correspondence-Postal-Theodora Sawyer, 23 Mar 2000.