"14 Benjamin Newcomb4 (Simon,3 Andrew,2 Anrdew1), was b. in Edgartown, Marthas Vine} ard, Mass., about 1700, and removed to Lebanon, Ct., with his father's family in autumn of 1713. Mr. N.'s wife's name was Hannah _____; that her surname was Clark is inferred from a charge upon his brother Thomas Newcomb's4 account book, Oct. 12, 1737, when Mr. N. was debited with 17½ lbs. tallow 'by his mother Clark.' Mr. N. 'owned covenant' at L. Oct. 15, 1732; removed to Willington, Ct., same year, but returned in 1736. In 1733 he, with his father Simon3 of L. bought in W. 171 acres land and rights, and 13½ acres commons. Removed to Kent, Ct., where his wife was received to chh. June 6, 1742, and he Feb. 26, 1749. In 1749 he bought 40 acres in Sharon for £700 'old tenor.' About 1760 and soon after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, he removed with his family, except three daus., to the town of Cornwallis, Kings Co., and became one of the original proprietors in 1761, receiving a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town, for residence, and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. N. and wife aided in the organization of the first chh. in C. Removed with their son Benjamin5 after 1775, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, where both died. Their son Benjamin,5 in letter from Waterborough to his sister Submit, in Cornwallis, Oct. 16, 1818, wrote: 'Since I have seen you I have buried our honor'd father and mother, and two near and dear wives, two sons and one daughter.' Tradition says Mrs. N. was a Scotch woman."
