This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: james_norred Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.burnet/2786.1.1.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Highwater, I think I am on to something after many hours of digging into the Newton linage. The first thing I have to say is there is a lot of Newtons! Second is that many of them ended up in the state of Arkansas. Interesting enough though is the fact that most of them come from two main branches of the same family that migrated to the colonies in the 1600 and 1700's. Lets just say that I am more than 99% sure we are talking of a branch of Newtons from the same linage. Now Thomas Newton, youngest issue of Ebenezer Newton and his wife, Elizabeth Buchanan, had 9 issues. John T, Samuel Martin (my linage), Elizabeth Buchanan (named after her mother), Margaret McCurdy, Ebenezer, James, Ann, William Milton Harvey, and Elihu "Eli" Davis Newton. Now of those issue's Samuel, Ebenezer, Ann, William MH (note this one), and Eli all ended up in Arkansas. Their parents, the Rev. Thomas & Ann Martin Newton had migrated into North Carolina and passed there. The above issues plus others all migrated to the Northwest corner of Mississippi near Arkansas via Georgia and Alabama prior to their moving there. Some stayed behind in Mississippi and the ones mentioned above went to Arkansas abt 1851 and settled there. My linage, Samuel was there for a short period of time and for some reason migrated to Texas and ended up in Burnet county abt 1855. His son John Calvin bought the Newton land 5 miles North of Bertram in 1856. James Donald & Margaret Ann Newton, Samuel's older brother and younger sister also came with him. This would be the Margaret Ann we have been thinking was the one we were looking for. I bounced all around Ann Newton until I finally got all her info. She married a man by the name of John Holmes 22 Nov 1830 and they had three issues prior to his untimely death in 1850 just before the census. The three issues were all daughters and the first was named Margaret Ann Holmes (she often went by Newton) born 1831, the same year her aunt, daughter of Samuel, my Margaret Ann Newton. Not only that they were all living next to each other in Alabama at the time. They all moved to Mississippi together and Ann Newton moving on to Arkansas with Ebenezer, William, and Eli as she died there. It will take a bit more time but I think the daughter of Ann is the Margaret Ann we are looking for and the "Mrs" on the marriage licenses is because she married a Newton who was a distant cousin. I think I might know who and if confirmed I will post it. As to the other matter of J W and Mattie Newton and the NM - Ej Newtons who cleaned it up, I think I know what that is about too but need more research to be sure. The only thing wrong is the NM Newton needs to be MH newton which is what he went by ( I have found no Newtons yet that had a name starting with the letter n). This would be William Milton Harvey Newton Jr and his brother Ebenezer Jasper newton, sons of William Milton Harvey Newton Sr cleaning up a mess of their youngest brother John Wilson Newton (JW). As to the "Mattie" he supposedly married and helped out of her inheritance, without a maiden name I have no clue. I am still digging into this one. I also noticed an A L Newton on a lot of those deeds in Williams county too. He is another mystery and perhaps is an issue of Ebenezer. More to follow. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.