Person:Nathan Newton (10)

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

He moved to Maine

NATHAN NEWTON" (Joshua, Joshua Zachariah John=, Richard^), son of Joshua, Jr., and Mercy (Bellows) Newton of Southborough, Mass., was born there May 13, 1764. He died at Andover, Maine, September 29, 1832. aged 68. Nathan Newton married at Marlborough, Mass., May 9, 1784, Anna Brigham— so is the record. The descendants of Nathan Newton have a very imperfect knowledge of him, his marriages and children. They all agree that he had three children by a first wife, whom some of them name as "Dorothy Dunn, born February 15, 1771."

The grandson of Nathan Newton asserts that the second wife was "Dollie Morse of Rumford, Maine," but he is so uncertain as to much that he gives me that I am inclined to accept as correct the marriage recorded in Northborough, Mass.— that is, of one of his marriages [there may have been three] :—"Nathan Newton and Dolly Wood, married October 6, 1794." There is a bit of evidence which points to this being his second marriage, namely: Nathan Newton's youngest son very earnestly desired to name his first child (so she tells me) Dorothy Wood; but his wife would not have it so—she did not want the child nicknamed "Little Dollie." Tliey compromised on the name, Cynthia Wood. It seems to me that the fatlier wished to name the child after his mother—^Dorothy Wood—"Dolly." Whatever the maiden name of Nathan Newton's last wife may have been, his widow, "Dollie," after his death, sometime, went to live with her eldest son, Lambert Newton, in Noble, Noble County, Ohio, where she died, February 26, 1859 ; burial at Haskinsville, Ohio, about four miles from the home of Lambert Newton, near Caldwell, Ohio. I do not find the parentage of either wife ; and Dolly Wood may have been a widow, born Morse. I merely suggest it—no proof. It is stated by his descendants that Nathan Newton came to Andover, Maine, from Duxbury, Mass. At what date they know not, nor whence to Duxbury. but it is known that he lived the remainder of his life at Andover, Maine, and died there. The record of his children is imperfect. The order of their names here given is not correct. No one seemed to know how they came. The following from "Worcester County Warnings" I give in this connection because of the similarity of names, and the date, and the town, and that perhaps the name Nahum might be incorrectly written for Nathan. I do not know who they are else. Namely: "Warned from Northborough, September 9, 1790, Nahum Newton, yeoman, wife Anna ; children, Aaron Beaman, Holesworth, Polly, Winthrop; from Southborough. Notice given to the Selectmen by Dea. Paul Newton." The First United States Census, 1790, shows Nathan Newton at Northborough, head of a household, consisting of himself. three males under sixteen years, and two females.

1. ↑ Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Southborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
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   NEWTON, Nathan, s. Joshua and Mary, [born] May 13, 1764.