Person:John Newby (14)

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, pg. 13, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Newby, John - born 2/1759; entered service 1777 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, in Virginia Regiment; granted Pension 1833 in Pulaski County, Kentucky; died 12/18/1852. F-S31275, R1810.

1.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).

   Name: John Newby
   Gender: Male
   Race: White
   Age: 91
   Birth Year: abt 1759
   Birthplace: Virginia
   Home in 1850: Division 2, Pulaski, Kentucky, USA
   Occupation: Farmer
   Industry: Agriculture
   Real Estate: 800
   Line Number: 39
   Dwelling Number: 285
   Family Number: 285
   Household Members Age
   John Newby 91
   Amy Newby 81
   Rachael Booth 52

2.   Jackson, Ron V. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890.

   Name: John Newby
   State: VA
   County: Chesterfield County
   Township: No Township Listed
   Year: 1783
   Record Type: Tax list
   Page: 050
   Database: VA Early Census Index

3.   Kentuckykindredgenealogy.com.

   John Newby is listed on a plaque to commemorate Revolutionary Soldiers who contributed to the establishment and development of Pulaski County, Kentucky.
   
   https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/tag/john-newby/

4.   Portrait and Biographical Record of Madison and Hamilton Counties, Indiana
   pg. 777.

   The grandfather, John Newby, Sr., was a farmer and removed from Virginia to Kentucky, where he spent his remaining days, dying at the advanced age of ninety-two. His wife, Amy Newby, died in Kentucky, at the age of eighty.

5.   RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.

   John NEWBY was born FEB 1759 in Virginia, Probably Chesterfield Co., and died 18 DEC 1852 in Pulaski Co. Near Somerset, Kentucky. He married Martha FOURQUERAN on 17 DEC 1781 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, daughter of John /FOURQUERAN/. She died BEF 1792. He married Amith (Amey) NEWBY on 1792. She was born 1769 in Virginia, and died aft 1850/1860.
   
   Children of John /NEWBY/ and Martha /FOURQUERAN/ are:
   
   1. Mimey NEWBY was born ABT 1784.
   2. Edmund NEWBY was born 1788 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and died AFT 1850 in Probably Marion County, Indiana.
   
   Children of John /NEWBY/ and Amith (Amey) /NEWBY/ are:
   
   1. Martha (Patsey) NEWBY was born ABT 1794 in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
   2. Gamaliel NEWBY was born 1796/1798 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and died bef 1840/1850 in Hendricks Co. Ind. or Pulaski Co. Ky..
   3. John William NEWBY was born 24 NOV 1802 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and died 15 JUL 1882 in White River Twp., Hamilton County, Indiana.
   4. Sutton Hudson NEWBY was born 1808 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and died AFT 1850.
   
   https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/117132/I5875/-/registry

6.   Perrin, William Henry; J. H. Battle; and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: a History of the State: Embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony : its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies; the erection of Kentucky as an independent state and its subsequent development. (Louisville: F. A. Battey, 1887)
   pg. 637.

   Settlements were made early in Pulaski County, perhaps prior to 1790. Among the first settlers were John Newby, William Owen, the Prathers, Pitmans, Thomas Hansford, the Jaspers, Alexander McKinzie, Charles Neal, John, James and Jesse Richardson.