Henry Newman (abt. 1701 - bef. 1774)

Descendants

Died before 19 Sep 1774 before about age 73 in Somerset County, Maryland [uncertain]

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Biography

According to a Somerset County Judicial Record for March 1731, Henry Newman is described as being about 30 years of age at the time of the proceedings. The pertinent portion of the record follows^[1] "Somerset County ss: Depositions of Wittnesses taken at the plantation of Joy Hobbs where Thomas Hobbs now Lives at Moneigh in the County afd the 26.th day of June ann Dom 1731 by Vertue of a Commission to us Directed out of his Lordship Court of Somerset County bearing date the 20.th day of November 1730 for Examining Evidences for the perputieating the Memory of the bounds of that Land Called Carnies Chance Vizt John Macragh of Somerset County aged about forty three Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God says that about fifteen or sixteen Years agoe Rich.d Cary and this Deponant was in the Woods together and said Cary told him that a great Pine Standing by a Swamp A distance above Thomas Hobbs plantation was the first bounder of a peice of Land Called Carnies Chance and further Saith not John Mccragh

Henry Newman aged about thirty Years being sworn Saith that about ten Years ago he was a hogg hunting with Richard Cary and Coming to a Swamp Side he Saw a great pine marked and the aforesaid Cary told this deponant that pine was a Corner tree of a peice of Land belonging to Joy Hobbs but he did not tell the name of the Land and further Saith not Henry Newman

NB it was the Same tree that John Macragh shewed us & Swore to taken the day & year aforesaid Geo Dasheill Henry Ballard"

Henry Newman is the father of the Isaac Newman who settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century as proven by a Power of Attorney from Isaac to his son, Henry, which references "Newman's Last Conclusion," a tract of land in Somerset County, Maryland, that was left to him by his father, Henry.

Sources

1. ↑ Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730 - 1733, March Court 1731, p. 164, Archives of Maryland Online, Maryland State Archives

• Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730 - 1733, March Court 1731, p. 164, Archives of Maryland Online, Maryland State Archives

• Power of Attorney from Isaac Newman to Henry Newman, Somerset County Maryland Deed Book, Liber I, p. 371