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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Grimes, J. Bryan (John Bryan). Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1690-1760]: Compiled from Original and Recorded Wills in the Office of the Secretary of State. (Raleigh, North Carolina: E.M. Uzzell, 1910).
NEWBY, GABRIEL.
[No county given]
March 26, 1733. March 1, 1735.
Sons: JOSEPH (plantation of 300 acres), JESSE (300 acres of land), SAMUEL ("my maner plantation" and also two negroes), FRANCIS.
Grandson: WILLIAM NEWBY (300 acres of land).
Other legatees: RICHARD and MARY MOORE.
Wife and Executrix: MARY.
Witnesses: WILLIAM HILL, THOMAS MUSE, THOMAS NICHOLSON.
Proven before W. SMITH, C. J.
- ↑ Winslow, Ellen Godde Rawlings. History of Perquimans county as compiled from records found there and elsewhere: abstracts of deed from 1681 through the revolution-petitions, divisions and marriages found in Perquiamans and adjacent counties... (Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1931).
Newby, Samuel (1) Gabriel (1) William (1) (no birth date),
m it is thought 1st Ann Mayo (d of Edward Jr, & Mary née Clare, who m 2d Joseph Newby, son of Gabriel, his 2d wife; Mary Newby’s will 1739, names her son-in-law Samuel Newby and three of his children. (See Grimes Wills.)
Samuel Newby
m 2d Elizabeth Sanders (d of Benjamin & Ann) 1, 8mo 1740 issue:
-1 Joseph, b Aug 10, 1741
—2 William, b Dec 30, 1743
—3 Ann, b Feby 5, 1745
—4 Gabriel, b Feby 13, 1747
—5 Mary, b Oct 16, 1749
—6 Gideon, b Sept 15, 1751
—7 Elizabeth, b Mch 16, 1756
—8 Miriam, b Oct 16, 1757
—9 Samuel, b Mch 25, 1761.
It is thought that Samuel Newby had by 1st wife, Ann (supposed to be d of Edward Mayo) dau Jemima, who m her cousin William Newby (s of William, & Ann, b about 1720) Mary Newby née Clare (widow of Edward Mayo) in her will p Jan 1739, names gr-children: Edward, Jemima, & Isabell Newby, who appear to be the children of her “son-in-law” Samuel Newby, and these children are not named among the issue of Elizabeth née Sanders. (See above.)
- Hunt, Roger D. The History of the Hunt Family.
x. Samuel Newby Born about 1708, Samuel was the youngest child and our direct
ancestor.
Fifth Generation
Samuel Newby, despite being the youngest of four surviving sons, received an inheritance of his
father’s plantation in the Perquimans area of North Carolina. Samuel’s three older brothers all
received separate plantations of their own as a result of their father’s generous will.
Samuel married twice. His first wife was Ann Mayo, the daughter of Edward Mayo Jr. and Mary
Clare. According to the Pasquotank records, Ann was born 23 March 1713/1714. She and Samuel
Newby reportedly married on 4 December 1729 when Ann was but 15 years old. After Ann’s
grandmother died, her grandfather Edward Mayo got into trouble with his fellow Quakers by courting a widow too soon after the death of his wife. The elder Mayo wrote a paper of self-condemnation, stating that “for want of watchfulness” he had made “suit to the widow Gormack by way of courtship, contrary to the good and wholesome order settled among Friends; it being too soon after the death of her husband and the death of my wife.”
After the death of his first wife Ann, Samuel Newby married Elizabeth Sanders, the daughter of
Benjamin and Ann Sanders. The actual marriage date for Samuel and Elizabeth is not known. The
only record concerning their marriage is in the Perquimans Monthly Meeting records, which states that on 5 November 1740 Samuel was at liberty to marry “Elisabeth Sanders.” The marriage undoubtedly occurred soon after that date.
Almost nothing is known of the ancestry of Elizabeth Sanders other than the names of her parents.
Her mother’s maiden name is not known, though it has been suggested many times, without proof, that it was Elliott. Benjamin Sanders was listed on the first extant tax list for the Perquimans Precinct in 1729 as owning 1019 acres, a very large amount of land. He also was a neighbor of Samuel Newby, as several deeds mention adjoining property lines with Francis Newby, a brother of Samuel and with whom Samuel also shared a property line.
Speaking of his brothers, Samuel and brothers Francis and Jesse lived in close proximity to one
another. Francis Newby sold 50 acres of land on the north side of Cypress Swamp “in the pine
woods” to Samuel in 1732, while Jesse Newby sold 100 acres to Samuel in 1736. In 1740, Samuel
paid his brother Jesse £73 for 50 acres “where I now dwell ... running out of sd Samuel Newbys Mill Pond, that divides land of Francis, & Jesse Newby, to Sam’l Newbys New Road to Deep branch, along sd branch to Perquimans River, & up the sd River to Samuel Newbys Mill Creek.” This deed indicates that the three brothers lived on adjoining parcels of land they all inherited from their father.
Samuel Newby died in 1776-1777, soon after the Revolutionary War broke out. He wrote his will
dated 3 October 1771, which was proven in January 1777. Samuel Newby and his first wife Ann
Mayo had three children, though there is no Quaker record of their births. They would be unknown
to us except for a will. Ann Mayo’s mother, following the death of Ann’s father, married Joseph
Newby, Samuel’s older brother (meaning your mother-in-law was also your sister-in-law). Ann’s
mother left a will in 1739 naming Samuel Newby and his three children.
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