William Brewster

William Brewster was a Pilgrim that went on the Mayflower voyage. Brewster joined the Pilgrims in 1620 to go to America. He was one of the three people that really helped raise money to get a patent to make a settlement in America.When the Pilgrims got to America, they made Brewster their senior elder. William Brewster was one of the only educated people in the new Plymouth colony. He was also made the religious leader of the colony. Religion was very important to the Pilgrims, and their religion is what motivated the colonists to survive. The Pilgrims looked to God for guidance and deliverance from their perils, and they needed a strong leader to set a religious example. Without William Brewster as their religious leader for the first winter in America, the Pilgrims might have lost hope and given up on their beliefs. There is no known portrait of William Brewster, but here is a painting of what he might have looked like.

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