Person:Gershom Newton (5)

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

GEESHOM NEWTON, JR.^ (Oershom^, SamiieP, John-, Richard'), son of Gershom and Elizabeth (Angier) Newton of Marlborough, Mass., was born there April 24, 1715, and died February 27, ISOO. He married at ^Marlborough. Sei)tember 25, 1744. Jeriisha Bruce, daughter of Samuel and Elizaheth (Townsend ?) Bruce* of ^irarlhorough, where she was born October 20, 1721. Gershom Newton, Jr., and his brother Timothy were soldiers in the French and Indian War in 1748, and Gershom again in 175G. lie was in the Crown Point expedition, in Capt. Ebenezer Newell's, Roxbury, Company, March 27, 1755, till December 17, 1755. He was taxed in Framingham, 1757. Perhaps he lived there for a time, as also in Southborough ; but tlie record of his children is in Marlborough. In the First Ignited States Census, 1790. a Gershom Newton is credited to Lanesborough, Berlvshire County, Mass., head of a family, i. e., one male and one female. Another Gershom Newton at Marlborough, Middlesex County, Mass., head of a family, which, with himself, consisted of four males above sixteen years of age, and one female. This last was Gershom. Jr. I have not fotuid the other.

1. ↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
   138.

   NEWTON, Gershom, s. Gershom and Elezebeth, [born] April 24, 17153\.