Brewster Miller - BREW1

Brewster Miller - BREW1

Brewster Miller

BREW1

"colored man"

Free

Male

Death

January 28, 1846

Brewster is recorded as 5 at the time of his death.

Sag Harbor Old Burying Ground
34 Union Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963

Brewster is buried in the Sag Harbor Old Burying Ground, plot #116. He is described as a "colored man." Dorothy Zaykowski quotes the Sag Harbor Corrector's death notice for "Brister" Miller: "Brister filled his station in life with honesty and propriety, was peaceable and content with his situation, and his account current, and give the Recording Angel but little difficulty to settle." Zaykowski continues: "His gravestone is inscribed, 'The Noblest Work of God; An Honest Man.'"

Secondary Source

Zaykowski, Dorothy Ingersoll, The Old Burying Ground at Sag Harbor, L.I., N.Y., Sag Harbor 2003. p. 85.

Meghan McGinley