ORIGIN: Southwark, Surrey.
RETURN TRIPS: Made trip to England 1638-9 to sell land in Horningsheath, Suffolk, England [Lechford 16-19, 131].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church 3 August 1634 (as "John Newgate, hatter") [BChR 18].
FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 [MBCR 1:370].
BIRTH: By about 1588 (based on estimated date of first marriage), probably at Horningsheath, Suffolk, son of Philip and Joan (Hoo) Newgate [Salisbury Fam 1:2:480-81; NEHGR 52:42-44]. (Philip had a son John baptized at Horningsheath on 24 November 1583, but there were two sons named John in this family, the second of whom left a will in England dated 12 October 1642 in which he made a bequest to "my brother, John Newgate, now living in the parts beyond the seas called New England" [Townshend Fam 95-96].
DEATH: Boston between 8 May 1665 (codicil to will) and 8 September 1665 (inventory). (His date of death has been given as 4 September 1665 [Salisbury Fam 1:2:485], but the source for this is not known.)