4. EDWARD3 HUMSTON III, born about 1702 ( Edward2, Edward1 ), married in Stafford County, Virginia, about 1731, Sarah Newton (proof of this has not been found), who was born probably in Stafford about 1710. She died after 1771 and it is supposed that she is buried at or near the sit of old Elk Run Church, in Fauquier County.
Sara was an orphaned daughter of Benjamin II and Elizabeth (Gregg) Newton of St. Paul's Parish. (This is corrected from the original supposition.) She may have made her home with her grandmother, Lucy Gregg. However, to add uncertainty, St. Paul's Parish Register lists the marriage of Sarah Newton to William Higgins Dec. 9, 1732.
Records now available show her name merely as Sarah. However, it is believed that she was the Sarah Newton named as “granddaughter” in the will of Lucy Gregg in 1730, thereby being a cousin of her husband. After a search for her parentage, it is concluded that perhaps she was the daughter of Benjamin Newton and his second wife Elizabeth. Newton, son of John Newton of Stafford, and grandson of Thomas Newton of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England, is said to have married first Mary, and second Elizabeth. His children were Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah and Benjamin Newton. A Mary Newton died in 1716, according to St. Paul’s Parish Register.
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