Howell Nimrod Brewer, III

Nimrod Brewer

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Biography
Nimrod Brewer was probably born about 1766. This is an estimated date. He is presumed to have been a son of Howell Brewer Jr (II) and an unknown spouse, due to the fact that at least one believed living male descendant of his matches the rest of the I-Y23708 Howell Brewer Jr DNA Subclade. Nimrod Brewer was likely born in Wilkes County, Georgia, because that's where his presumed father Howell Brewer Jr was living at that time.

A 1785 Petition to relocate the county seat and courthouse of Randolph County North Carolina had as signatories the following (inter alia): Howell Brewer Sr, Nimrod Brewer, Isaac Brewer, Reuben Brewer, and another Howell Brewer (probably his likely father, Howell Jr).

The 1790 Federal Census of Moore County North Carolina has him as a 'Poll' (showing that he owned no real estate), and over the age of 16 (i.e., born before 1774).

Nimrod Brewer showed up in the 1794 tax list of Captain Worthen's District, Hancock County, Georgia. Poll tax only -- no real estate.

Howell, Isaac, Nimrod and John Brewer were all listed in the Sanford District Hancock County, Georgia tax list for 1795.

Nimrod Brewer was subsequently on the tax list of Hancock County, Georgia (Sanford District) in 1796.

In 1798, Nimrod Brewer was in Captain Edward Moore's Company, of Jackson County, Georgia (along with his presumed father Howell Jr. and presumed brother Isaac). He was only taxed for a poll tax, meaning that he again owned no real estate.

Nimrod Brewer is found as early as 1803 in the Randolph/St Clair County, Illinois area, which area was still considered Indiana territory. (Illinois became a state in 1819.)

He is listed on an early census for that area in 1806 and 1807. The 1806 census had many people who had come from Georgia.

About this time, another record shows him residing on Silver Creek, St Clair County, Illinois.

The 'Nimrod Brewer' who showed up in the 1815 Territorial Census of Lawrence County, Missouri, may be him, but it could also conceivably be his presumed son, a younger Nimrod Brewer whom later records show was born in Georgia circa 1791-1794.

A 'Peggy Brewer' was enumerated in the 1820 Federal Census of St Clair County, Illinois. Residing in her household was an unidentified, unnamed older male, who could conceivably have been this man, Nimrod Brewer.

There is no known record of the death of this Nimrod Brewer. Most online genealogies, alas, regularly confuse him with his presumed son, the younger Nimrod Brewer (b. ca. 1791) who later lived in Missouri. Some online genealogies also confuse him with another (younger) Howell Brewer, who died in Missouri in the year 1828.

This younger Howell Brewer was probably his son, and was probably born in the 1790s, not the 1760s, as is often claimed (without evidence). The reason I think this is because a friend and apparent business partner who tended him during his final illness was also born in the 1790s.

Sources

• 1790 United States Federal Census. Year: 1790; Census Place: Moore, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 163; Image: 437; Family History Library Film: 0568147

(Note per CHCurtis-- see the CHANGES section for more information on the researchers of this profile as it is not my personal research but I am the manager)

Sources

• See Madison County, MO Probate Records, Image 8 Index - FamilySearch son Howell Howell Brewer
• GEDCOM Source 1790 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data - Indexed from: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States in the Year 1790. Washington, D.C.: Government P 1,5058::0