Ernest and Mae, I am so glad Mae mentioned that part of our family that also has been misleading to our John Newton, I have seen this on web pages and if they know they still post it. I do know some know, but alot don't know. Ernest, have you found anything new ? You all have a nice Thanksgiving. Your cousin, Gay Nix Gay Nix warpaint1128@sbcglobal.net

The following is a small part of a newspaper article dated 9 October 1879 from the Savannah Morning News. Typed as written. JASPER'S COMPANION It will be most interesting in closing this account of the laying of the corner stone of the Jasper Monument to give a little sketch of Newton, the gallant Jasper's companion in the achievement at Jasper Spring. This information we obtain through a letter from Mr. Jno. H. Newton, of Athens, Ga., to Capt. Robt. Falligant of this city. Mr. Newton was a nephew of that Newton. The writer says: Sergeant John Newton, who was with Sergeant Jasper in the memorable transaction at Jasper Springs was my uncle, my father's brother. He was the friend and companion of Sergeant Jasper, and both of them being young, bold, fearless men, were entrusted with the duty of obtaining information of the movements of the British and Tories in the Southern part of South Carolina and Georgia, and were almost constantly on the scouts as spies and couriers, venturing often into the lines of the enemy and getting all desirable information. They traveled usually unarmed , at least without visible arms, and it was during one of these excursion that they learned the condition of the prisoners whom they rescued at the Japer Spring near Savannah. Both Sergeant Jasper and Sergeant Newton and my father, Moses Newton, were in General Lincoln's army at the siege of Savannah and Sergeant Newton and his brother returned into south Carolina in that army, and continued with and in General Lincoln's army until the city of Charleston was besieged by the British forces by land an sea, and the city, with General Lincoln's small army fell into the Hands of the British forces. Sergeant John Newton and his brother, Moses Newton, my father, were among the troops surrendered. Sergeant John Newton, being known to many of the Tory officers as a active rebel, and a man dangerous to them, was thrust on board a prison ship, on which small-pox existed, and he soon met there the fate they intended for him. He soon died on board the prison ship of that disease. My father, Moses Newton, being quite a youth, only fifteen years of age, was with other prisoners confined on land, and that party of prisoners made their escape by bribing their drunken guard, and most of them reached their homes in safety. My grandfather, Rev. John Newton, Baptist minister, lived at that time Colleton District, South Carolina, and removed to Jefferson county, Georgia, soon after the war closed about 1783, and resided there near Fennis Bridge on the Ogeechee, until his death. My father, Dr. Moses Newton, continued to reside on the on the original Georgia homestead until his death in 1821, and I, his oldest son, resided on same place and on the Fennis Bridge place, until I removed thence to Athens, Ga., in 1837. The only published account of the memorable (I might say bold dash) transaction at Jasper Springs, that I have ever seen is in Weems' Life of Marion published on or about 1812 and recently republished in new edition, but which new edition I have not seen. Sergeant John Newton was born January 16th 1755, and it is supposed he died soon after his imprisonment on shipboard in Charleston harbor in June or July 1780. This meagre information is extract from the family record of my grandfather, Rev. Dr. John Newton and from a diary kept by him for some years before his death. ( marriage of NEWTON,Moses / Mrs. Nancy Willoy 18 Aug 1824 Jefferson county GA) Gordon Parks descendant of John Newton through Henry Newton through Sarah F. Newton who married James W. Parks ----- Original Message ----- From: "LYNDON NIX" <warpaint1128@sbcglobal.net> To: <newton@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:09 AM Subject: [NEWTON] John Newton Rev.War hero > Ernest and Mae, > I am so glad Mae mentioned that part of our family that also has been > misleading to our John Newton, I have seen this on web pages and if they > know they still post it. > I do know some know, but alot don't know. > Ernest, have you found anything new ? > You all have a nice Thanksgiving. > Your cousin, Gay Nix > > > > Gay Nix > warpaint1128@sbcglobal.net > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEWTON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >