Family:Isaac Newton and Grace Garfield (2)
Parents: Moses Newton and Sarah Howe
Isaac Newton
b. 24 Aug 1696 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d. 30 Dec 1775 Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States
Parents: Joseph Garfield and Sarah Gale
Grace Garfield
b. 6 Jul 1688 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
 
m. 8 Dec 1719 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Facts and Events
Marriage[1] 8 Dec 1719 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Children
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1.
Josiah Newton
ca 1721 to 1722 Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut, United States
 
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References
  1. ↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
    290.

    Newton, Isaac and Grace Garfield, Dec. 8, 1719.

  2.   Leonard, Ermina Elizabeth (Newton). Newton Genealogy: Genealogical, biographical, historical, being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut, Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut, Newtons of Virginia, Newtons near Boston. (De Pere, Wisconsin: B. A. Leonard, 1915)
    166, 185.

    p. 166: "It is supposed (I saw the statement as though written by John Ward Dean) she was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Gale) Garfield of Watertown ... If so, she would have been several years the elder".

    p. 186: "I have found nothing further of the wife Grace Garfield. And as none of the children of Moses of Stafford have the name it is possible she died and Isaac had a second wife - name not yet known - all my conjecture, not proof."

  3.   Presumably, this identification of Grace as the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Gale) Garfield is based on their son Benjamin (Grace's brother) moving to Marlborough to provide opportunity for this marriage, as no hard evidence seems to exist.

    However the author nowhere mentions this brother Benjamin Garfield nor attempts to trace his family history.
  4.   Another way to parse the citation [S2 p 166] is:

    "I think she was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Gale) Garfield of Watertown because I saw a statement to that effect attributed to John Ward Dean"

    The author does not further describe the statement that she saw. It seems likely that the statement referred to one of the many biographies published by John Ward Dean in the NEHGS and elsewhere during the late 1800s.
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