Note 498 — Chapter VIII

The Bibliographical Appendix to Dr. H. M. Dexter’s Congregationalism as seen in its Literature, mentions nine of these imprints, viz., nos. 459, 467, 470, 475, 476, 478, 481, 482, 495. Three or four others are also known. See the Brinley Catalogue, no. 530. [Brewster’s career has been made the subject of an extended memoir, Chief of the Pilgrims, Philadelphia, 1857, as it is somewhat unsatisfactorily called. It has merit in tracing the European existence of the Pilgrim Church, but is unfortunately disfigured (p. 350) in a minor part by some genealogical fabrications imposed upon the author, the Rev. Ashbel Steele. (Cf. Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary, sub “Brewster.”) Dr. Dexter, N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1864, p. 18, in examining the evidence for his birth, puts it in 1566-67; so that at his death, in 1644, he was seventy-seven, or possibly seventy-eight. See Mr. Neill, Hist. Mag., xvi. 69, and cf. Mr. Deane, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xii. 98; also Poole’s Index, p. 160.