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Colonel John Brewer was the founder of the city of Brewer, Maine. He married Martha Graves of Sudbury,MA, and later, after her death in 1808, was married to Ruth Prescott, a widow, from Augusta. They remained married until she died in 1818.
Brewer is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Bangor metropolitan area. The city is named after its first settler, Colonel John Brewer. [4] The population was 9,672 at the 2020 census. [5] Brewer is the sister city of Bangor.
completely abandoned. John Brewer was among those who remained. In 1776 he was made a captain in the militia and his older brother, Josiah, a colonel.
John Brewer was one of the first permanent settlers on the Penobscot River. He was born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 17, 1743 to Josiah and Hannah Brewer (Woolson) and was descended from Corporal John Brewer who lived in Sudbury , Massachusetts as early as 1642. .
The Regiment was authorized on April 23, 1775 in the Massachusetts State Troops as John Brewer’s Regiment. Organized in spring 1775 at Cambridge to consist of 10 companies from Worcester, Hampshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Bristol, Berkshire, and Barnstable Counties.
The 13th Massachusetts Regiment, also known as the 6th Continental Regiment and Jonathan Brewer's Regiment, was first raised in 1775 by Colonel Jonathan Brewer. Under Colonel Edward Wigglesworth in 1776 it was designated the 6th Continental.
The town's name honors Colonel John Brewer, a prominent figure in the region's early history. One of Brewer's most famous historical landmarks is the Thomas A. Hill House, a well-preserved Federal-style mansion built in 1835.
