Edward Newton (1712 - 1762)

Born 1712 in Somerset County, Province of Maryland

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Died 1762 at about age 50 in Dorchester, Maryland

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Biography

Edward was born in 1712. Edward Newton ... He passed away in 1762.^[1]

East New Market Wills & Probate Records

Liber 31, Folio 795 - 27 July 1762 / 13 September 1762 - Will of Edward Newton I confirm my deed of gift: to my son Willis Newton, negro man Plymouth, a chest, & a horse colt; to my son Richard Newton, negro woman Sabina, a table, desk, & black bay mare Jewell; to my daughter Margaret Clarkson, negro girl Rachel; to my daughter Betty Newton, negro girl Rose; & to my daughter Frances Cannon, negro girl Beck, a bed, & negro boy Elisha. To my wife, Mary Newton, negro man Peter. To my daughter Lilly Newton, negro boy Isaac & negro girl Myme. To my daughter Betty Newton, bay mare Fancy & L 7 to buy a saddle & furniture. To my daughters Margaret Clarkson & Francis Cannon, each 3 sheep. The residue of my personal estate to my said. wife, my sons Willis & Richard Newton & my daughters Betty & Lilly Newton, but if my said wife renounces the will & elects her 1/3, the residue is to be divided between my said sons Willis & Richard & my daughter Betty, & my daughter Lilly, her mother's only child, is to have nothing. To my said son Richard, my part of Partnership, on which are 3 tenements: Nobles, Badleys, & Cooks. Executors: my sd. wife & my son Willis Newton. Witn: Danl Sulivane, John Caile, Roger Ashcom Cooper.

Sources

• Henry C. Peden Jr. and F. Edward Wright, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 15 volumes (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2000), 11: 177.

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