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I believe the following information in quotes below to be accurate.
Do you know of a Hannah Brower? She married Gabriel Phillips in 1758 in Bucks County, PA.
Do you know of any Phillips-Brower connections prior to
1758?
Thanks.
"They are the New Netherlands/New York Brouwers who migrated from the New Amsterdam area, to Brooklyn and Long Island, then through New Jersey, then across the Delaware River into Bucks County. The patriarch is Adam Berchoven Brouwer who came to New York in 1643. You can trace the family by each generation as they went from Manhattan, to Brooklyn, to New Jersey, to Bucks.
The Brouwers were a well established family and wealthy. In Bucks County they were part of the Low Dutch community of the Neshaminy area of Bucks. They arrived there about 1695. Adolphus Brouwer, grandson of Adam, witnessed several deeds in 1704 (spelled Bruer on the deed). One of them was apparantly his son in law's, Harmon VanSandt. Harmon was married to Elisabeth Brouwer. The VanSandts were wealthy merchants of New York and Philadelphia.
By the 1770s the name was spelled Brewer and Brougher (Brouwer), and they had moved out to more northern townships of Bucks such as Milford Township, where lived various Phillips."
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