MARSHALL NEWTON5 (Obediah4. Thomas3, John2, Richard1), son of Obediah and Abigail ( ) Newton of Shrewsburv and Grafton, Mass., was born at Shrewsbury, August 23, 1729, and died in Shrewsbury, May 5, 1783, aged 63 years, 9 months. He and his two wives are buried in the Common burying ground near the Congregational church. A headstone with inscriptions.
He married in Shrewsbury, August 13, 1751, Mrs. Eunice (Tavlor) Howe, widow of Daniel Howe, Jr., and daughter of William and Elizabeth (Hapgood) Taylor of Shrewsbury, where she was born, March 28, 1729, and where she died, July 1, 1759, aged 30 years, 3 months.
He married (2) in Shrewsbury, July 30, 1751, Mrs. Hannah (Willard) Roberts, widow of Richard Roberts of Grafton, and daughter of Maj. Joseph and Martha (---) Willard of Grafton, where she was born March 17, 1726, and died in Shrewsbury, May 26, 1794 aged 68. She is described as being of average size, straight and dignified in person. She was amply provided for in her second widowhood with means for her comfortable support.
Marshall Newton settled in his native town of Shrewsbury, Mass., where he was a man of property; his lands being on the north side of the public road leading from Worcester to Boston, easterly from the Shrewsbury Congregational church. He was bred a gunsmith. He had good business talent and was an excellent mechanic. He was a speculator in wild lands, and owned several rights of land in Shoreham and Bridport, Vt., in the early grants there. In politics he was a decided Whig, and ever on the side of personal freedom. He named one son Liberty, and furnished three sons for the Revolutionary army. He was a soldier of the French and Indian Wars -- a Lieutenant in Colonel Williams' regiment. He had children by both wives, all born in Shrewsbury, Mass. He died intestate and his estate was administered in 1783 at Shrewsbury. Case in Probate, No. 43,305.
