"43 Benjamin Newcomb5 (Benjamin,4 Simon,3 Andrew,2 Andrewl), bap. in Kent, Ct., Oct. 12, 1746; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1760, where he m. June 25, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lewis of Barnstable, Mass. He drafted shares of land in C. in 1761, though not one of the grantees of the township. Several lots were surveyed for him 1765, 1766, 1775. Soon after 1775 he removed with his family, his aged parents accompanying him, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury Co. [Queens Co.], New Brunswick, where his wife, the mother of his ch., died. His 2d wife, name not preserved, d. in W. Apr. 9, 1818. He sold a part of his lands in Cornwallis, but frequently stated before his death that he still owned lands there. He d. in W. Dec. 1818."
