From Bethuel Merritt Newcomb's book, "Andrew Newcomb and His Descendants" - He resided in the north part of Eastham, now Truro, Cape Cod., Mass. January 28, 1701-2, "voted to make inquiry concerning a whale which (it is said) Simon Newcomb and Richard Rich cut up at Billingstgate last year." Mr. Newcomb was chosen fence-viewer in 1702. There was laid out to him in 1811, as one of the proprietors of Truro, two pieces of land - four acres for his tenement on Lieutenants Island, two acres in northeasterly corner and two acres northeasterly of Samuel Mayo, Jr.'s lot. "A record of the division of the pond of Moonpoon and the Old Field at Eastern Harbor in the north part of Truro called Moonpoon old field division as they were laid out and lotted and bounded for the proprietors thereof on they fourth day of March 1711-12 the sixth lot fell to Wm. Dyer Simeon Newcomb and Daniel and Benj. Small," twelve acres. He received, by division, other lots of land near the line of Eastham and Truro and near Pamet Point.

His name, as also those of his sons, Simon and Andrew, was signed 12 June 1711 to a petition of the inhabitants of Billingsgate, a village of Eastham, "desiring John Done to go before the governor and seek remedy for difficulties they were subject to." The petition is now on vile in Vol. 113, p. 606, of Mass. Archives at Boston. The following names were signed to the petition: "John Latimer, Elisha Eldridge, Simon Newcome, Timothy Col, Richard Rich, Jonathan Young, Benjamin young, John Myrick, John Ruick (Rich?), Simon Newcomb, Jr., Isaac Baker, William Cole, Isaac Perse, Andrew Newcomb, Elisha Eldridge, Jr., James Brown, Eleazer Wood, John Wood, Sam'l Brown, John Sweet, Joarge Ward, Israel Young, Joshua Wood, Elisha Cole, Brown Benony."