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Walter Newton, Sr.
b.21 May 1779 Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
d.29 Aug 1854 Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 31 Jan 1753
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m. 8 Feb 1801
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According to E. Leonard, in The Newton Genealogy (de Pere, Wisc., 1915) WALTER NEWTON", SR. (Alpheus-', Abner Thomas^ John^, Richard^), son of Alpheus and Elizabeth (Clatlin) Newton of Westborough, Petersham and Deerfield, Mass., w'as born in Deerfield, May 21 or 23, 1779, and died in Shelburne, Mass., August 29 or 30, 1854, aged 75 years. He married in Deerfield, Mass., February 8, 1801, Gratia Alexander, daughter of Amos and ( ) Alexander of Deerfield, Mass., bom March 2, 1784, died, in Montague, Mass., November 22, 1849, aged 65. Mr. Newton lived in Deerfield, Mass., where he was a farmer. Most of his children were born there. Walter Newton, Sr., was a soldier in the War of 1812. He enlisted November 4, 1814, in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, from the town of Montague, Mass., mustered out February 2, 1815. All of Mr. Newton's sons, except Agur, who was a blacksmith, were fanners, and his daughters married farmers. This family of Newtons, too, had light hair and blue eyes. |
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