![]() It appears to me that someone has used the census records to determine that Abraham Newton was likely the oldest in the Duplin area, and thus the father of all others of appropriate age there. The idea that the Duplin County NEWTON clan(s) descend from this Richard Newton is just about as dead as a hypothesis can be. We now have 4 samples with descent from the Duplin branch, and none of them are even close to the "J" type that is now a very robust association with the Richard Newton of Sudbury/Marlboro. Some may be familiar with Descendants of Sarah Graves and Abraham Newton of MA & NC as promulgated here. The following quote comes from a 6 October 2006 post on the Newton DNA project mailing list at Rootsweb ( ): Thanks to yDNA testing, Isaac Newton of Duplin County-area North Carolina is extremely unlikely to be the son of Abraham Newton and Sarah Graves of Worcester County, Massachusetts. The will names wife, Jemima, plus 2 sons Enoch, Isaac Jr, and daughters Esther, Ann, Sarah Storman (spelling), Phebe, Mary Williams, Elizabeth, Dorcas Morgan, and 2 deceased daughters, Miriam James and Jemima Wilson. Isaac's will is dated 19 November, 1798, and it is in probate in January 1799 in Duplin, North Carolina, USA. ![]() ![]() Samuel Newton, Enoch's uncle, served as the pastor of Bull Tail (Later Wells Chapel) Church until 1783. The church is still in use today in the northwest corner on Duplin County. The members of the church voted to change the name from Bull Tail to Wells Chapel in his honor. Isaac had a son named Enoch Newton who's daughter Mary married David Wells, a pastor at the Bull Tail Baptist Church, where he served until his death in 1856. Isaac and his brothers, Jacob, George, & Samuel moved to North Carolina in the 1750's and settled Newton Cross Roads community in New Hanover Co. He did not cite a source, but he listed a birth date for her of "about 1757". The surname of Isaac's wife ("Jemima Chambers") comes from Aldermans in America by William Alderman Parker. In the 1790 Census, Isaac Newton lived in Duplin, North Carolina, USA, as 1 male over 16 (Isaac), 2 males under 16 and 5 females.
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