Person:Joshua Newton (10)

According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915)

JOSHUA NEWTON, SR.* (Zachariah,"- John-, Richard^), son of Zachariah and Mary (Axtell) Newton of Marlborough, Mass., was born there, October 13. 1703. He died and his estate was administered in 1742, case No. 13,258 in Probate Court. No will.

lie resided in Marlborough-Southborougli. His children were born in Southborough. The marriage, "consummated by Joseph Wilder Esq." of Joshua Newton and Mary Temple occurred at Lancaster, Mass., October 21, 1729. The mother of his children is named Mercy in every case. [For a confusion of dates, see "Some Temple Pedigrees, 1900," by E. D. Temple.]

'The History of Shrewsbury, by A. H. Ward, has tlie following:

Temple, Ricliard, whose wife was Mary, was living on house lot. No. 37, in 1721; his wife Mary, died here. Dec. 10, 1733, aged .57. His daughter Mary, was admitted to this church in 1728. married Newton of Southboro.' and was dismissed to the church there in 1743. Nothing further on record here concerning him or his. See also the note under same as to Temple ancestry. Concord.

I am inclined to think there was no "Nathaniel Newton" wlio married a Mary Temple — these names being combined by an error of the coi)yist. — The marriage of Nathaniel Wilder and Mary Beaman being the one immediately preceding in the record, 1729, the eye could easily become in error.

The above is quoted from the Book "Newton Genealogy" by ERMINA NEWTON LEONARD