DANIEL BREWER
from Our Brewer Ancestors by Utilis L. Russell
Daniel Brewer was the seventh child of Thomas and Sarah Brewer. He was born on March 25, 1699 at Glastonbury, Connecticut. Daniel married Eleanor, the only daughter of Richard and Joanna Clark Goodale on the 18th of June, 1718, in Middletown, Connecticut. For a wedding gift to this couple, Richard Goodale gave a plot of land adjoining his own home in Middletown, with a stipulation that Daniel build a house upon the land and reside therein.
Soon after his marriage, Daniel sold to his brother, Joseph, twenty five acres of land which had been endowed to him by his father-in-law, but complied with the terms of the gift, which was to settle in Middletown. Daniel became active in the town affairs of Middletown, for his name appears on the town records frequently, as having served in positions of trust and honor. Daniel and Eleanor's names appear on many land grants and deeds, indicating that vast acres were purchased and sold through them.
Their names and the names and christening dates of their children are recorded on the records of the First Congregational Church of Middletown, of which they were active members.
Daniel and Eleanor had ten children, their names, in order of birth as recorded at the church, were: Hezekiah, Eleanor, Edward, Richard, Daniel Jr., our ancestor, Anna, David, Seth, Remembrance and Joanna. As to grandchildren of Daniel and Eleanor, we have records of the births of ten children to Daniel Jr. and their ninth child, and sixth son, Remembrance, married Hanna Eddy and they had four children.
Daniel died on December 1, 1773 at Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut and Eleanor died on December 15, 1776, also at Portland.
i. First Chapter from the book, AThe Descendants of Lewis Brewer,published by the Brewer Family Organization, Pinedale, Arizona 1971.
ii. Dates and places of birth were taken from the Ancestral File, a computerized program published by the L.D.S. Church, if not included by Utilis Russell in his history. The information in Ancestral File was submitted by volunteers and may not have been checked for accuracy. Where there are differences in dates and/or places or spellings, those of Utilis Russell were used.
iii. Dates of death and place were found in Ancestral File, July 1996 update.