Person:Reuben Newman (5)

Disambiguation

NOT to be confused with Reuben Newman, (1767-1842) of in Orange County, Virginia and son of Alexander Newman (1740-1788) and Frances Bourne (1746-1831). MANY internet genealogies have confused and/or combined the two Reuben Newmans.

About Reuben Newman

Reuben Newman was born 9 November 1780 in Virginia [likely Shenandoah County], and died 8 March 1839 in Highland County, Virginia. He was the illegitimate son of Barbara Hockman and an unknown Newman male.

The following affidavit contained in the Revolutionary War Pension Application file of Henry Daring, his step-father, mentions Reuben's circumstances, as declared by his half-sister Mary Daring:

State of Virginia,

On the 24th day of July, 1839, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the County of Augusta, in the State aforesaid, Mary Daring, a resident of the County of Rockingham, and State of Virginia, aged fifty years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress, passed July 4th, 1836; That she is the daughter of Henry and Barbary Daring, dec’d; and that the said Henry Daring was an Ensign in Col. Crocketts [Joseph Crockett’s, pension application S46377] Regt, Virginia Line, in the War of the Revolution, and was employed in the Illinois service; and that she always understood that he acted a part of the time as Captain.

She further declares that she and Margaret Daring are the only children now living of Henry Daring by Barbary Daring; but that Henry Daring had another child by Barbary Daring, named John Daring, who married, and afterwards he and his wife died, leaving Elizabeth, an only child to survive them, now the wife of Azel Glover, of the State of Ohio.

She further declares that Barbary Daring had, previous to her marriage to Henry Daring, an illegitimate son, who was called Reuben Newman, who died, as she understood, in March last. [Note: underline emphasis added. This would have been March 1839, the same month that this Reuben Newman died].

She further declares that Henry Daring & Barbary Daring, were married, as she frequently heard them say, in December, 1782; and that Henry Died, as near as she can recollect, in the Spring of 1805; and that Barbary Daring died on the 16th of March, 1837.

She further declares that Jacob Newman, administrator of Henry Daring, decd. received from the general government, a sum of money, being as she understood, the half pay to which her father Henry Daring was entitled, on account of his Revolutionary services; and which will appear by a reference to the papers filed in the War Department, by said Newman. [Note: Jacob Newman is this Reuben Newman's son]

[Signed] Mary [her X mark] Daring

1.   United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).

   Name Reuben Newman
   Residence Date 6 Aug 1810
   Residence Place Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia, USA
   Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 3
   Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
   Number of Household Members Under 16 5
   Number of Household Members Over 25 2
   Number of Household Members 8

2.   United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).

   Name Reuben Newman
   Enumeration Date 7 Aug 1820
   Home in 1820 (City, County, State) Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia, USA
   Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 4
   Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 1 [b. bet. 1776-1794]
   Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44 1 [b. bet. 1776-1794]
   Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures 2
   Free White Persons - Under 16 8
   Free White Persons - Over 25 2
   Total Free White Persons 11
   Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other 11

3.   United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).

   Name Reuben Newman
   Home in 1830 (City, County, State) Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia
   Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59 1 [b. bet. 1771-1780]
   Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49 1 [b. bet. 1781-1790]
   Free White Persons - Under 20 5
   Free White Persons - 20 thru 49 2
   Total Free White Persons 8
   Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored) 8

4.   Find A Grave.

   Reuben Newman
   BIRTH 9 Nov 1780
   Virginia, USA
   DEATH 8 Mar 1839 (aged 58)
   Highland County, Ohio, USA
   BURIAL
   Countryman Cemetery
   Elmville, Highland County, Ohio, USA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28438377/reuben-newman
   Note: incorrect father listed in this Find-A-Grave memorial, the contributor has been messaged to correct the memorial page.