Benjamin Newton (1777 - 1851)

Born 3 Feb 1777 in Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1851 at age 74 in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois, USA

Biography

Benjamin was born on 3 Feb 1777 in Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut.^{[citation needed][1]}

He married Phebe Stearns ca. 1803.^{[citation needed][1]}

Sometime after 1824, when their daughter Naomi was born, and prior to the 1840 Census, Benjamin and his family relocated to Stark County, Illinois.^[2]

His wife died in 1849. The following year, Benjamin's son David and his family are living with Benjamin in Stark County, Illinois.^[3]

Benjamin died in 1851, and he is buried in Snareville Cemetery in Stark County, Illinois, USA.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 02 August 2020), memorial page for Benjamin Newton (3 Feb 1777–12 Sep 1851), Find A Grave: Memorial #32532321, citing Snareville Cemetery, Stark County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Dan & Barbara (contributor 47033260).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBJ-GWP : accessed 27 December 2015), Benjamine Newton, Stark, Illinois, United States; citing p. 211, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 70; FHL microfilm 7,644.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M853-9BZ : accessed 27 December 2015), Benjamin Newton, Stark county, Stark, Illinois, United States; citing family 507, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Leonard, Ermina. Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical (Bernard Ammidown Leonard, Wisconsin, 1915) Page 785.