Person:Francis Newton (13)

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

FEANCIS NEWTON^ (Phinrns*. .Johii-, John-, Richard'), son of Phineas and Patience (Howe) Newton of Marlhoroush and Ieicester, Mass., was born at Leicester, March 21, 1731-2, and died April 18, 1781, aged .50. He married Elizabeth . She was bom about 1736, and died April 16, 1820. aged 84. Francis Newton and his wife Elizabeth were admitted to the Congregational Church at Belchertown, Mass., in 1756, and removed from that town in 1761,

In 1770 his name appears in Hadley, Mass., in a "List of Inhabitants of Hadley in 1770, and the parts of the village and town in which they resided ; their polls and valuations." From a valuation made 1770 and sent to Boston: '"Francis Newton. 1 poll, £29. 8. East side of Main street, beginning at the North end."

The History of Hadley gives the names and marriages of five children. In the First United States Census, 1790, the mother, Elizabeth Newton, in Hadley, Mass., is given as the head of the family—she was a widow then—and her family consisted besides, of one male under sixteen years, and one other female.

Francis Newton, a soldier of the Revolution, on a list of men from Col. Cushing's Regiment, mustered by Thomas Newhall, muster master for Worcester County, to serve at Rhode Island "until the 1st. of Jan. next" (year not given) in Capt. Newton's Company. [I suppose this to be this Francis Newton.^]