Squire Brewster

Squire Brewster is briefly mentioned in The Tomb as a rich and celebrated "maker of local history who was interred in 1711, and whose slate headstone, bearing a graven skull and crossbones, was slowly crumbling to powder."

According to the "moment of childish imagination" of Jervas Dudley, the narrator of the story, Brewster's undertaker, Goodman Simpson, stole his "silver-buckled shoes, silken hose, and satin small-clothes" before the burial.

Also, "the Squire himself, not fully inanimate, had turned twice in his mound-covered coffin on the day after interment."