SOLOMON NEWTON5 (Thomas4, Thomas3, John2, Richard1), son of Thomas and Anna (Wilson) Newton of Shrewsbury and Grafton, Mass., was born in Shrewsbury, February 3, 1732; baptized in Grafton church March 4, 1732, C. R., and died at Deerfield, Mass., June 5, 1803, aged 71.
He married about 1754 or 55, Mary Taylor, daughter of Samuel and Miriam (Keets) Taylor* of Sunderland, Mass., born there February 22, 1730, and died February 9, 1813.
Solomon Newton, like his brother Levi, lived first in Montague, then in Sunderland, and removed to Deerfield. In 1790 he was in Deerfield, and his family, taken by the First United States Census, consisted then of himself, two males above sixteen years old, and two females. He was drafted for a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but his son Moses went out in his place in 1775. His son Jeremiah was also a Revolutionary soldier. The record of his children is incomplete, but probably born in one of the above towns.
