John Brewers will was probated in London on May 6, 1635.
His will reads "To be buried without any mourning apparel or gowns given to any but those of mine own household. To my dearly beloved father, Thomas Brewer, eight pounds yearly and every year so long as he shall happen to live after my decease. To my son, John Brewer my plantation in Virginia called "Stanley's hundred," also "Brewer's Burough" only the third part of the profits thereof arising during the life of Mary my wife I give to her, and also the third part of my goods and chattels, beside which is also due by the custom of London. To my son Roger Brewer and my daughter Margaret Brewer forty ___apiece payable at marriage or when 21. To my brother Thomas Brewer 40 sh. and to each of his children 10 sh. The residue to my said children, John, Roger and Margaret, they to be executors, but as they are now young, I appoint my wife Mary and my loving uncle Roger Drake, citizen and clothmaker of London, to be overseers and guardians of my children; to each of them 40 sh. to buy them a ring. He likewise named his father, Thomas Brewer and his Uncle Rodger Drake of London, which shows his mothers maiden name was Drake.