>______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:08:27 -0500 >From: "Mark & Penny" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Rev. George Newton, NC and TN, 1765-1840 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Steve, > >Do you have outline of info? Maybe we could find a connection. > >Thanks, >Penny > Yes, some data follows. First, I am looking for the wife of William McGee, who is said to be (more follows on that). This is William and wife in the 1830 census: William McGee, Bedford County, TN, page 87, line number 19 Data: 2100001000000-0200010000000; no slaves The inference that William's first wife (she dies by 1838 and be remarries) comes from this data: Journal of Mattie Justice McGee Moore part 1 A personal recollection and other notes by Mattie Justice McGee Moore. The journal was started in June, 1937. The latter parts were apparently written in 1955-56. The copy from which this was taken was typed by Mat's sister, Maude McGee Rider, about 1958; she inserted several notes. The page numbers are those of the typed copy. Page I "So many times I have thought that I would write down all I know or can remember about my father and mother and their fathers and mothers. I wish I knew more about them, but maybe my children and grandchildren won't know as much as I do unless I tell them. My memory goes back a good many years. I remember my grandfather McGee - "Grandpap" we called him. I never knew any name but William; he was called by almost everybody, Uncle Billy. He was tall and thin and kind of stoop shouldered, from sitting on the cobbler's bench, maybe. He was a shoemaker and mender and also a wood worker, or cabinet maker as they were called in those days. I don't know where he was born or if he had any brothers or sisters. He was married before he married my grandmother and I think his first wife's name was Martha Newton. They had five children, two girls and three boys: Martha and Tabitha, Newt, Bill and John; I have heard my father speak of them. I think Tabitha married a man named Tinnel or Tyndol, and Martha married Bill Taylor. I used to know the Taylor children Ann and Therie and Johnson. I know the girls are dead and the boy maybe. He would be a very old man now. I never knew anything about the Tyndol family. I only heard talk of Babe Tyndol - a young man then. The McGee sons I know nothing of. The last I heard of any of them was that Uncle John lived in Mississippi. His wife's name was Martina Dennison. My grandmother's name was Mary Justice Haggard. Her father was Samuel Haggard and his wife was Mahala Meadows. Grandma had several brothers but no sisters. One brother was named Dick - the youngest was Williamson. I can remember seeing him. Some of his children or grandchildren still live in Bedford County, I believe (1937)." What leads me to look first at George Newton and perhaps his siblings as candidate parents for Martha Newton is simply proximity. The Haggards were in middle Tennessee by 1820 living just north and west of Wartrace. Rev. George Newton first settled about a mile east of Wartrace and a family of McGees (Rev. John McGee) about 2 miles southeast. There is some data of questionable quality of Rev. Newton and his family in the book "Written on Many Hearts: The History of the First Presbyterian Church, Shelbyville, Tennessee, 1815 - 1865", by Robert E. Cogswell, Parthenon Press, Nashville, 1965. (I say "questionable" because, while the book is scholarly in so far as church history goes, it uses hearsay sources for the genealogical data.) "He was the son of Ebenezer Newton and Elizabeth Buchanan Newton, born in Shrewsbury Township in York County, Pennsylvania in 1765. The Newton family migrated to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1765." "One source ["Fox, Adrian G., County Agent, Bedford County, Tennessee, various materials published 1964"] lists the names of the following sons: John, Ebenezer, James and Alexander." Here is a list of the early (pre 1840) Newton deeds in Bedford County TN: Name Name Date Reference George Newton from Clement Cannon 1817 J 58 George Newton from Andrew Erwin 1823 R 17 Alexander Newton from Robert F. Harrison 1823 S 85, S 96 George Newton from Andrew Erwin 1823 S 297 Alex Newton Thomas Peacock 1824 T 7 George Newton from Giles Burdell 1825 X 281 Alex Newton N. E. Coldwell 1829 AA 467 Ebenezer Newton from Samuel Becham 1830 BB 388 Alex Newton George Newton 1834 DD 437 Alex Newton Alex Peacock 1834 EE 31 George Newton, Executor Ballard Coldwell 1836 FF 154 John Newton from Jesse Norman 1834 DD 502 John Newton from William Gavin 1834 DD 507 George Newton from Ballard Coldwell 1836 FF 177 John Newton William Hix 1838 HH 11 George Newton Andrew Erwin Jr 1838 HH 137 John Newton William Pearson 1839 HH 356 Of these, J 58 dated 1 May 1817 is for 5 acres of land bordering Shelbyville at the N and E of the original town plan next to the Dixon Academy (where the book says it was thought that Newton might take over as principal); R 17 dated 9 July 1823 is for 224 acres on Knob Creek (where the 1820 census shows George Newton was then living); S 297 dated 1 June 1823 is for about 5 acres on Knob Creek bordering where Newton lived as a site for the "Newton Academy" (later called the Mount Prospect Academy) [The Bethsalem Church was also on this land although it later relocated. The Bethsalem Cemetery is on this land today. It is located just E of the intersection of the Cortner's Mill and Knob Creek Roads.] Here is some census data I have gathered that is directly related or may be related based on proximity: Rutherford, NC Census 1790 Robert Newton page 118 01 01 04 00 00 1800 Benjamin Newton page 134 12101-22101-00 1800 Ebenezer Newton page 134 00001-00001-00 1800 Ebenezer Newton page 134 20010-10100-00 1800 Robert Newton page 133 01001-10210-10 1800 William Newton page 134 12101-00101-00 1810 Benjamin Newton page 124 Not Recorded 1810 Ebenezer Newton page 124 Not Recorded 1810 Robert Newton page 123 Not Recorded 1810 William Newton page 124 Not Recorded 1820 Benjamin Newton page 364 Not Recorded 1820 Benjamin Newton Jr. page 363 Not Recorded 1820 Ebenezer Newton page 345 Not Recorded 1820 George Newton page 364 Not Recorded 1820 James Newton page 361 Not Recorded 1820 John Jr. Newton page 363 Not Recorded 1820 John Newton Sr. page 363 Not Recorded 1820 Robert Newton page 398 Not Recorded Buncombe, NC Census 1800 George Newton page 182 20010-10100-01 Lincoln, NC Census 1790 Ebenezer Newton page 115 03-00-02-00-00 Bedford TN Census 1820 stamped page 9a, handwritten page 17, line 1 John Newton 010100-00100 1 employed in agriculture, no slaves 1820 stamped page 26, handwritten page 52, line 10 William Newton 000100-00100-01-0-0 1 employed in agriculture, no slaves 1820 stamped page 29, handwritten page 58, line 8 George Newton 101211-00200 5 employed in agriculture, slaves: 00400-13011 1820 stamped page 39a, handwritten page 77, line 14 Nicholas Newton 200101-23001 2 employed in agriculture, slaves: 00001-00000 1820 stamped page 53a, handwritten page 105, line 1 Rachael Newton 000100-21010 1 employed in agriculture, no slaves 1830 page 90 line 26 William Newton 1100010000000-1001100010000 no slaves 1830 page 91 line 21 George Newton 0000000010000-0010010000000 slaves: 01000-01100 1830 page 97 line 14 N. Newton 0111100100000-0012000100000 no slaves 1830 page 97 line 19 John Newton 1010010000000-0110100000000 no slaves 1830 page 100 line 27 John Newton 2100010000000-3200110000000 no slaves 1840 page 29, line 26 Shelbyville Rev. George Newton 0000000001000-0100001000000 1 learned professional; slaves: 021000-111000 1840 page 54, line 8 10th CD Ann Newton 0110000000000-1211010000000 no employed; no slaves 1840 page 96, line 8 24th CD John Newton 0010001000000-0010010000000 1 employed in agriculture, 1 employed in manufacturing; no slaves 1840 page 96, line 10 24th CD Nicholas Newton Sr. 0000100001000-0000100100000 1 employed in agriculture; no slaves 1840 page 96, line 11 24th CD Nicholas Newton 1100100000000-1100100000000 1 employed in agriculture; no slaves - ------------------------------------------------------- Steve Carson http://www.huntel.com/~carson/ GSC Associates http://www.gscassociates.com/ 5272 Redman Road phone:+1-505-521-7399; fax:+1-505-521-9321 Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA e-mail: [email protected] - -------------------------------------------------------