1Royal Ralph Hinman, A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of the Colony of Connecticut, p. 323 (1852).
"BREWER, CAPT. JOHN, of Cambridge, Mass., probably son of Joanna.) Wife Ann, had son John, b. in Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1642, and a daughter Hannah, b. Jan'y 18, 1644. Married 2d wife MARY WHITMORE of Lynn, Oct. 23, 1647, and had children, Mary, b. 1648; William, b. 1653; Sarah, b. 1658, married Samuel Graves, of Lynn, March 12, 1678, and had 3 children, Crispus, Hannah and Samuel. John Jr., settled in Sudbury, m. Elizabeth Rice, and had 9 children, John, b. 1669; Elizabeth, Hannah, James, 1675; Sarah, 1678; Mary, 1680; Abigail, 1682; Martha, 1685, and Jonathan, 1689. From John Brewer, Jr., decended the numerous and respectable families of Sudbury, Framingham, Hopkintonm Tyringham, &c.".