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Like the neighboring islands of [[Great Brewster Island|Great Brewster]], [[Little Brewster Island|Little Brewster]] and [[Outer Brewster Island|Outer Brewster]], Middle Brewster Island is named after [[William Brewster (Pilgrim)|William Brewster]], the first preacher and teacher for the [[Plymouth Colony]]. During the 18th century the island hosted a fisherman's colony, and was used as a summer retreat by some Boston residents during the 19th century. Remains of the homes remain, including fireplaces, stone walls, and an arch that once supported a bell.<ref name="bhilmb"/>
Middle Brewster was acquired by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by eminent domain as part of the creation of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park in the 1970s. The last private owner of Middle Brewster was Andrew P. Quigley, the former mayor and State Senator from Chelsea and publisher of the Winthrop Sun-Transcript. Quigley said he developed a life-long love of the Boston Harbor islands as a young boy while summering on Point Shirley in Winthrop in the 1930s, when he came to know Edward Rowe Snow, the famed historian and Winthrop native, who often took groups of children on rowboat tours of the Boston Harbor islands.
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