THE NEWTON LINE


    This is an interesting line and I am sorry that I have not studied it further.
There is a family genealogy in The D.A.R. Library about these Newtons.  It gives
some of the English genealogy, including the fact that Sir Isaac Newton was in a
collateral line.

I.  RICHARD NEWTON  b. 1601 in England, d. 1701, age 100 years.
       It is believed that he came to America in 1638/39 m. Anne (some authorities
       say Hannah) Loker who d. Dec. 5. 1697.  Richard was one of the founders
       of Sudbury, Mass.  1645, Freeman.  Was one of the early petitioners for the
       town of Marlborough.  He and his family lived in the southerly part of town.
       1664 helped petition for the erection of a church.  He fought in the King
       Philips' Wars.
       Issue:  I am sure of these three.  There may have been more.
         1. John m. Elizabeth Larkin
         2. Moses m. Joannah Larkin, probably sister of Eliz.
         3. Daniel m. 1665 Susannah Morse.  They built a fine old homestead in
            Marlborough.
            "The Newtons had ability and were considered most capable.  Besides
            the care of their farm, they had a tannery, blacksmith shop, and cider
            mill." - Ella Bigelow

II.  MOSES NEWTON b. Mar. 26, 1646, in Sudbury, Mass.
      m. 1. Joannah Larkin Oct. 12, 1668
         2. Sarah Joslin
         Proprietor of Iron Works.
         I found this account in the Marlborough book by Ella Bigelow so interes-
         ting that I am quoting it verbatim:  "Having provided a house for their
         minister, they (the settlers) then erected on the Hill where now stands
         the High School Building their house for public worship.  It was a small,
         one-storied building with oil paper in the windows for lights, and thatched
         with straw or a kind of tall grass taken from the meadow, since called
         Thatch meadow.  People were called to meeting at that time by the beating
         of a drum.  Then flocked the people two by two to the little old church.
         "Each man equipped on Sunday morn' with psalm book, shot and powder horn!
         The time of preaching the sermon was about an hour in length, one in the
         morning, and another in the afternoon after a short intermission, and was
         measured by an hour glass placed upon the pulpit.  Carriages were unknown,
         and those who rode went on horse back with pillion for wife or daughter
         who dismounted easily with the aid of a horse block near the meeting house.
         No man ever went unarmed in those days, for the dreaded foe might ever come
         upon them.
         One cold March morning in 1676 while preaching his Sunday sermon in this
         little thatched-roof meeting house Father Brimstead was interrupted by the
         awful cry:  'The Indians!  The Indians are upon us!'  Confusion and fright
         ensued.  All made for the neighboring garrison (the old Ward house) where
         miraculously they escaped, with a single exception.  Brave Moses Newton,
         gallantly stopping to rescue an aged and infirm woman who was unable to
         move rapidly, brought her at last safely to the garrison, but with a ball
         lodged in his elbow.  He was deprived of the use of this arm ever after."
         Moses and his son, Moses, Jr., were in Isaac Howe's garrison.

III.  MOSES NEWTON, JR. b. Feb. 28, 1669, m. Sarah Howe 1695.  Moses fought in the
         King Philips' Wars.

IV.   ELISHA NEWTON  b. Oct. 28, 1701, m. Sarah Tomlin of Shrewbury.

V.    SARAH NEWTON m. Solomon Bigelow Mar. 4, 1761.  Their intentions of marriage
         were published Feb. 13, 1761.

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