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Name: John NEWTON
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Birth: 1639 Yorkshire Co England
Death: 1697 Westmoreland CoVA
Father: Thomas NEWTON
Spouse: Rose GERRARD
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Birth: abt 1629
Death: 1712 Westmoreland CoVA
Children:
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1 F: Elizabeth
NEWTON
Birth: 1685 Westmoreland CoVA
Death: 1763 Westmoreland CoVA
Spouse: Major
Benjamin BERRYMAN
Marriage: abt 1708 Westmoreland CoVA
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Notes for John NEWTON
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Virginia County record Publications,
Vol. I, Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Wills-- Newton, John,
19 AUG 1695; 28 JUL 1697. To eldest son John my lands at Carlton and Camelsforth,
in Yorkshire in England, and the house in Hull, which was my father's,
also the land bought of Joseph Laycock, to said son John and his four children
I leave 1,000 lbs. of tobacco each; to son Joseph and his three sons, 1,000
lbs of tobacco each; to son benjamin and his daughter 1,000 lbs. of tobacco
each; to son Gerard Newton 1,000 acres in the freshes of Rappahannock with
a mill and four negroes; to daughter Elizabeth Newton one-half tract of
2,150 acres and 1 negro, to my wife all my plate for life and then to my
daughter; toson Thomas 350 acres and a mill at Totoskey; to wife Rose Newton
5,000 lbs. of tobacco and barious other bequests; to son Thomas four negroes;
to grandson John the son of Joseph Newton, 200 acres of land. Newton, John,
19 Aug 1695; 28 Jul 1697 -- Eldest son John land at Carlton and Camelsforth,
Yorkshire, and house in Hull, which was my father's, the land bought of
Joseph Laycock, to go to son John and his four children, also1,000 lbs.
of tobacco a piece; son Benjamin and his daughter 1,000 lbs of tobacco
each; my sons Gerard Newton and Thomas Newton after the death of my wife,
to son Joseph and his son John; my dau. Elizabeth Newton; my wife Rose.
Codicil 1 Dec 1696. My son Gerard newton and his wife Rebecca.
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page 73 of "Chotankers", 1982, A. Edward
Foote. See page 23. Page 105 says that his daughter, Elizabeth Newton,
made a deposition in 1755 in a case of Garrard Davis and others versus
Richard Lee in which she said that her father had "informed her, he was
a Yorkshire man and had three wives there and one son by each wife namely
John, Joseph and Benja." He told her that he came to VA after the death
of his third wife. It cites "Virginia Council Journal, 1726-1737", Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography, Volume XXXIII (1926), page 300.
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Notes for Rose GERRARD
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Virginia County record Publications, Vol. I,
Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Wills -- Newton, Rose, 1 Dec.
1712; 4 Feb. 1712. To son Thomas land in VA and MD. My late husband Thomas
Gerrard.
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John Newton, was married three times in
England.
1st to: Joan Barr ca 1660(estimated)
2nd to: Unknown
3rd: Elizabeth Laycock
4th:, who he married in the New World was Rose
Garrard, widow of Thomas Garrard. Rose's 1st husband of John Tucker who
died in 1671 Westmoreland Co., VA(they had 4 children).
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John was a juryman in Westomeland Co 25 Aug 1677
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