Updates To Brewer Families of Southeast America

Foy Varner's Brewer Families of Southeast America, published by Foy in 2003, is covered in the post of December 21, 2014. It is to be used in conjunction with Marvin T. Broyhill's work, mentioned in the same post, which was published in 1992. If you are using Broyhill's work you will also want to consult Foy's work. There are links to Brewer Families of Southeast America and a two page addendum on the "Replacement Links and More" page of this website. And just to make it a little easier, here is a link to Brewer Families of Southeast America and the Addendum. Please feel free to download and save these documents to your own computer. They are online using my Google account and therefore I cannot guarantee that they will always be available.

Foy has now issued two new documents that are of importance to those using the sources mentioned above. Links to the two are also available on the "Replacement Links and More" page. One is a four page errata, dated February 2019. The second is a work that Foy produced in collaboration with Diane Daniel titled, Brewer Families of Brunswick County, Virginia. This work is 59 pages, and is very much recommended for those who are, or believe they are, descendants of George Brewer of Brunswick County, Virginia. Again, feel free to download and save both.

A couple of weeks ago I posted on David Brewer's just published Brewer Families of Moore and Southwest Chatham Counties, North Carolina. Like David Brewer, Foy Varner is also a co-administrator of the Brewer DNA Project. Foy's focus is on Ambrose Brewer who lived in Moore County, North Carolina and later in Tennessee where he died in 1855, at about the age of 102. All in all the new published works mentioned here constitute significant advancements in the efforts to understand and reconstruct some of the Brewer families found in the southeast during the colonial period.

Map by Thomas Kitchen of the southern colonies shortly after the French and Indian War. From Life in the Southern Colonies, citing Todd Andrlik as the source

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