Person:Samuel Newman (17)

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Rev. Samuel Newman
b.10 May 1602 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
d.5 Jul 1663 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Rev. Samuel Newman1602 - 1663
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  • H.  Rev. Samuel Newman1602 - 1663
  1. Patience Newman - 1690
  2. Noah Newman
  3. Deacon Samuel Newman1625 - 1710
  4. Hopestill Newman1641 - 1673/74
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Name Rev. Samuel Newman
Gender Male
Birth[1] 10 May 1602 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage to Unknown
Death[1] 5 Jul 1663 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q7412276?


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Samuel Newman (May 10, 1602 – July 5, 1663) was a clergyman in colonial Massachusetts whose concordance of the Bible, published first in London in 1643, far surpassed any previous work of its kind.

Newman was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1602, son of Richard Newman. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1620, took orders in the Church of England. He was prosecuted for nonconformity and emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably in 1636.

After preaching nearly two years at Dorchester, he became pastor of the church at Weymouth, where he remained until 1643. The following year he removed with part of his church to Seconet, in Plymouth Colony. There they founded the town of Rehoboth, which then embraced what is now Seekonk, Massachusetts and Rumford, Rhode Island. He died in Rehoboth on July 5, 1663.

Newman's famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors. The first edition was published in London in 1643, just before Newman's removal from Weymouth to Rehoboth. At Rehoboth, he revised and greatly improved it, using in the evening (according to Ezra Stiles, a President of Yale) pine knots instead of candles. The second edition was published at Cambridge in 1662 and the concordance was usually known after that as the Cambridge Concordance. The concordance was reprinted at least as late as 1889, almost 250 years after it was first published.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Samuel Newman, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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