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Benjamin Newcomb
Posted on July 8, 2010 by markeminer
Benjamin NEWCOMB (1700 – 1775) was Alex's 6th Great Grandfather; one of 128 in this generation of the Miller line.
Benjamin Newcomb was born about 1700 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His parents were Simon NEWCOMB and Deborah LATHROP. He married Hannah CLARK in 1727 in Canaan, CT. After the final defeat of and expulsion of the Acadians, British control of the land was secured by repopulating the former French lands with settlers from the New England States. Between 1760 and 1768 some 8000 New England "Planters" came to a new colony, see my post New England Planters in New Brunswick for their historical story.
Kings County comprised three agricultural townships: Horton, Cornwallis, and Aylesford. Benjamin emigrated to Cornwallis Township in Kings County, Nova Scotia in 1760 at the same time as his four of his children. Benjamin died after 1775 in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada or in 1774 Waterborough, Royal, New Brunswick, Canada.
Waterborough, New Brunswick where Benjamin Newcomb died
Hannah Clark was born 21 Feb 1710/11 in Lebanon, CT. Her parents were William CLARK Jr and Bethiah WILLIAMS. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. That her surname was Clark is inferred from a charge upon his brother, Thomas Newcomb's acct. book, 10-12-1737, when Mr. Newcomb was debited with 17 1/2 lbs. tallow "by his mother Clark." Hannah died 2 Jan 1797 in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia.
Children of Benjamin and Hannah:
Name Born Married Departed
1. Hannah Newcomb c. 1728
Lebanon, CT William Tanner
23 Mar 1749
.
Elisha Hatch 6 Aug 1806 Canaan, CT
2. Benjamin Newcomb baptized 12 Oct 1729 Died Young
3. Simon Newcomb baptized
25 Jan 1730 Columbia, Toland, CT Served in the military from 1 Jul 1779 to 16 Dec 1780
4. Lydia Newcomb baptized 30 Jun 1731 Deacon Justus Sackett
1 Jan 1756 16 Nov 1808 Warren, CT
5. William Newcomb 18 Jun 1733 Willington CT Phebe Porter
Mar 1761
Cornwallis Nova Scotia 2 May 1814 Warren, CT
6. Bethiah (Berthia) Newcomb 26 Feb 1735 Lebanon, CT David Raymond
19 Feb 1756 Kent, CT
.
Nathaniel Gray
30 Dec 1773 Kent, Litchfield, CT 19 Aug 1811 Sherburne, NY
7. Benjamin Newcomb Baptized
12 Oct 1746 Kent, CT Elizabeth Lewis
25 Jun 1766 Cornwallis Township, Kings Co, Nova Scotia Dec 1818 Waterborough Sunbury Co, New Brunswick
8. Oliver Newcomb c. 1738
Kent or Lebanon, CT Mary Anne Mahegan
15 Dec 1773 Cornwallis Township c. 1821
Pope's Harbor, Nova Scotia
9. Iram Newcomb c. 1740 Kent or Lebanon, CT Elizabeth Lewis
1765
Kent, CT Canada
10. Deborah NEWCOMB 25 Mar 1744
Kent, Litchfield County, CT Isaac MILLER Sr.
22 May 1766 Kent CT
.
John Newcomb Jr (her 1st cousin)
13 Feb 1777
.
Nathaniel Gallop
Sunbury County
after 30 Jun 1783 c. 1796
11. Jemima Newcomb Baptized 27 Mar 1748 Colin Brymer
18 Sep 1776 Kent, CT Cornwallis Twp, Kings Co, Nova Scotia
12. Submit Newcomb 1750
Kent, CT John Woodworth
9 Feb 1769 Cornwallis Township 18 May 1821 Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia,
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1760 Place: Nova Scotia, Canada Family Members: Son Benjamin; Daughter Deborah; Son Iram; Daughter Jemima; Son Oliver; Daughter Submit; Son William
Benjamin moved with his father from Edgartown to Lebanon CT in 1713 and stayed there until 1732, then moved for four years to Willington, Connecticut, finally settling in Kent, Connecticut in 1742. He also bought land in neighboring Sharon.
Then like his brother, Deacon John Newcomb, he became fascinated by the land in Nova Scotia, from which the French Acadians had just been expelled, and where good established farmland was available. He moved again, with most of his family, becoming one of the original proprietors of Cornwallis in 1761. Cornwallis is across the Bay of Fundy from St John New Brunswick, See Satellite Map. He received a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town, for residence and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the 1st Church in Cornwallis.
They removed with their son, Benjamin after 1775, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury, New Brunswick, where both died.
His three eldest daughters had married men who did not want to leave Connecticut. The famous astronomer. Simon Newcomb (wiki), of the US Naval Observatory, was a descendant of his brother Simon.
Cornwallis Township was one of the original townships of Kings County, Nova Scotia. The township was named after Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It bordered Aylesford Township to the west and Horton Township to the south. After CFB Cornwallis closed in 1994 the property was converted to civilian use. A local development authority used the name Cornwallis Park and this name was formally adopted for the community in 2000. While the name has fallen into disuse on maps, many historical places and documents refer to Cornwallis. The Parish of Cornwallis, however, is still in use today after more than 250 years
After the French colonists, the Acadians were commanded to leave Nova Scotia in the Great Expulsion, the area was relatively desolate. The Township was established by a group historians refer to as the New England Planters. In the early 1760s the Planters brought with them the colonial pattern of land division; each town or township was to contain one hundred thousand acres.
A generation after the Planters, a sudden influx of United Empire Loyalist settlers arrived to escape the Revolutionary War in New England. Towns such as Kentville, Kingsport and Canning took shape.
Benjamin lived Lebanon, New London, CT; Kent, Litchfield, CT; Cornwall, Litchfield, CT; Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick; and Canning, Queens, New Brunswick.
From B.M. Newcomb's 1923 book.
Mr. Newcomb "owned covenant" at Lebanon in the oldest church, 15 Oct 1732. He had resided in Lebanon since the autumn of 1713, when he removed with his father's family, and there resided until 1732, when he went to Willington, Conn. After four years he returned to Lebanon. In 1733 Benjamin Newcomb with his father, Simon of Lebanon, bought land and rights amounting to 171 acres and 13 1/2 acres commons in Willington. Subsequently Mr. Newcomb established his home in Kent, Conn., where he wife was received to church 6 Jun 1742, and he, 26 Feb. 1749. The same year he bought 40 acres in Sharon for £700 "old tenor". Oct 1751 Benjamin Newcomb "of Cornwall Conn." is on petition.
About 1760, soon after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, he removed with his family, except three daughters, to the town of Cornwallis, Kings Co., and become one of the original proprietors in 1761, receiving a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town for residence, and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the first church in Cornwallis. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. Some time after 1775 he removed with his son, Benjamin, to Waterborough, New Brunswick, later Canning, where they died. In a letter from Benjamin to his sister Submit, dated 16 Oct 1818, the statement is made: "Since I have seen you I have buried our honored father and mother, and two near and dear wives, two sons and one daughter."
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Benjamin Newcomb
Born 12 Oct 1746 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Benjamin Newcomb and Hannah (Clark) Newcomb
Brother of Hannah (Newcomb) Tanner, Benjamin Newcomb, Simon Newcomb, Lydia (Newcomb) Sackett, William Newcomb, Bethiah (Newcomb) Gray, Deborah (Newcomb) Miller, Jemima (Newcomb) Brymer, Submit (Newcomb) Woodworth, Oliver Charles Newcomb and Iram Newcomb
Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Newcomb — married 25 Jun 1766 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Submit Newcombe, Mary (Newcombe) Cowperthwaite and Lydia (Newcomb) Cowperthwaite
Died Dec 1818 in Waterborough, New Brunswick, Canadamap
Biography
Benjamin, bap. Oct. 12, 1746 ; m. Elizabeth Lewis.[1]
Benjamin Newcomb (Benjamin, Simon, Andrew, Andrew), bap. in Kent, Ct., Oct. 12, 1746; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1760, where he m. June 25, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lewis of Barnstable, Mass. He drafted shares of land in C. in 1761, though not one of the grantees of the township. Several lots were surveyed for him 1765, 1766, 1775. Soon after 1775 he removed with his family, his aged parents accompanying him, to Waterborongh, now Canning, in Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, where his wife, the mother of his ch., died. His 2d wife, name not preserved, d. in W. Apr. 9, 1818. He sold a part of his lands in Cornwallis, but frequently stated before his death that he still owned lands there. He d. in W. Dec. 1818.[2][3]
Sources
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 49 [1]
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 82 [2]
↑ Miner Descent, Profile of Benjamin Newcomb. 2010. Taken from Brown, Wall, Fisherand Allied Families. By Gladys Wall and E.H. Phillips. 1971. Page 160. Accessed 2016, and edited for style. https://minerdescent.com/2010/07/08/benjamin-newcomb/ https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/andrew-newcomb-45b.jpg
Benjamin Newcomb
Posted on July 8, 2010 by markeminer
Benjamin NEWCOMB (1700 – 1775) was Alex's 6th Great Grandfather; one of 128 in this generation of the Miller line.
Benjamin Newcomb was born about 1700 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His parents were Simon NEWCOMB and Deborah LATHROP. He married Hannah CLARK in 1727 in Canaan, CT. After the final defeat of and expulsion of the Acadians, British control of the land was secured by repopulating the former French lands with settlers from the New England States. Between 1760 and 1768 some 8000 New England "Planters" came to a new colony, see my post New England Planters in New Brunswick for their historical story.
Kings County comprised three agricultural townships: Horton, Cornwallis, and Aylesford. Benjamin emigrated to Cornwallis Township in Kings County, Nova Scotia in 1760 at the same time as his four of his children. Benjamin died after 1775 in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada or in 1774 Waterborough, Royal, New Brunswick, Canada.
Waterborough, New Brunswick where Benjamin Newcomb died
Hannah Clark was born 21 Feb 1710/11 in Lebanon, CT. Her parents were William CLARK Jr and Bethiah WILLIAMS. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. That her surname was Clark is inferred from a charge upon his brother, Thomas Newcomb's acct. book, 10-12-1737, when Mr. Newcomb was debited with 17 1/2 lbs. tallow "by his mother Clark." Hannah died 2 Jan 1797 in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia.
Children of Benjamin and Hannah:
Name Born Married Departed
1. Hannah Newcomb c. 1728
Lebanon, CT William Tanner
23 Mar 1749
.
Elisha Hatch 6 Aug 1806 Canaan, CT
2. Benjamin Newcomb baptized 12 Oct 1729 Died Young
3. Simon Newcomb baptized
25 Jan 1730 Columbia, Toland, CT Served in the military from 1 Jul 1779 to 16 Dec 1780
4. Lydia Newcomb baptized 30 Jun 1731 Deacon Justus Sackett
1 Jan 1756 16 Nov 1808 Warren, CT
5. William Newcomb 18 Jun 1733 Willington CT Phebe Porter
Mar 1761
Cornwallis Nova Scotia 2 May 1814 Warren, CT
6. Bethiah (Berthia) Newcomb 26 Feb 1735 Lebanon, CT David Raymond
19 Feb 1756 Kent, CT
.
Nathaniel Gray
30 Dec 1773 Kent, Litchfield, CT 19 Aug 1811 Sherburne, NY
7. Benjamin Newcomb Baptized
12 Oct 1746 Kent, CT Elizabeth Lewis
25 Jun 1766 Cornwallis Township, Kings Co, Nova Scotia Dec 1818 Waterborough Sunbury Co, New Brunswick
8. Oliver Newcomb c. 1738
Kent or Lebanon, CT Mary Anne Mahegan
15 Dec 1773 Cornwallis Township c. 1821
Pope's Harbor, Nova Scotia
9. Iram Newcomb c. 1740 Kent or Lebanon, CT Elizabeth Lewis
1765
Kent, CT Canada
10. Deborah NEWCOMB 25 Mar 1744
Kent, Litchfield County, CT Isaac MILLER Sr.
22 May 1766 Kent CT
.
John Newcomb Jr (her 1st cousin)
13 Feb 1777
.
Nathaniel Gallop
Sunbury County
after 30 Jun 1783 c. 1796
11. Jemima Newcomb Baptized 27 Mar 1748 Colin Brymer
18 Sep 1776 Kent, CT Cornwallis Twp, Kings Co, Nova Scotia
12. Submit Newcomb 1750
Kent, CT John Woodworth
9 Feb 1769 Cornwallis Township 18 May 1821 Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia,
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1760 Place: Nova Scotia, Canada Family Members: Son Benjamin; Daughter Deborah; Son Iram; Daughter Jemima; Son Oliver; Daughter Submit; Son William
Benjamin moved with his father from Edgartown to Lebanon CT in 1713 and stayed there until 1732, then moved for four years to Willington, Connecticut, finally settling in Kent, Connecticut in 1742. He also bought land in neighboring Sharon.
Then like his brother, Deacon John Newcomb, he became fascinated by the land in Nova Scotia, from which the French Acadians had just been expelled, and where good established farmland was available. He moved again, with most of his family, becoming one of the original proprietors of Cornwallis in 1761. Cornwallis is across the Bay of Fundy from St John New Brunswick, See Satellite Map. He received a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town, for residence and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the 1st Church in Cornwallis.
They removed with their son, Benjamin after 1775, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury, New Brunswick, where both died.
His three eldest daughters had married men who did not want to leave Connecticut. The famous astronomer. Simon Newcomb (wiki), of the US Naval Observatory, was a descendant of his brother Simon.
Cornwallis Township was one of the original townships of Kings County, Nova Scotia. The township was named after Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It bordered Aylesford Township to the west and Horton Township to the south. After CFB Cornwallis closed in 1994 the property was converted to civilian use. A local development authority used the name Cornwallis Park and this name was formally adopted for the community in 2000. While the name has fallen into disuse on maps, many historical places and documents refer to Cornwallis. The Parish of Cornwallis, however, is still in use today after more than 250 years
After the French colonists, the Acadians were commanded to leave Nova Scotia in the Great Expulsion, the area was relatively desolate. The Township was established by a group historians refer to as the New England Planters. In the early 1760s the Planters brought with them the colonial pattern of land division; each town or township was to contain one hundred thousand acres.
A generation after the Planters, a sudden influx of United Empire Loyalist settlers arrived to escape the Revolutionary War in New England. Towns such as Kentville, Kingsport and Canning took shape.
Benjamin lived Lebanon, New London, CT; Kent, Litchfield, CT; Cornwall, Litchfield, CT; Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick; and Canning, Queens, New Brunswick.
From B.M. Newcomb's 1923 book.
Mr. Newcomb "owned covenant" at Lebanon in the oldest church, 15 Oct 1732. He had resided in Lebanon since the autumn of 1713, when he removed with his father's family, and there resided until 1732, when he went to Willington, Conn. After four years he returned to Lebanon. In 1733 Benjamin Newcomb with his father, Simon of Lebanon, bought land and rights amounting to 171 acres and 13 1/2 acres commons in Willington. Subsequently Mr. Newcomb established his home in Kent, Conn., where he wife was received to church 6 Jun 1742, and he, 26 Feb. 1749. The same year he bought 40 acres in Sharon for £700 "old tenor". Oct 1751 Benjamin Newcomb "of Cornwall Conn." is on petition.
About 1760, soon after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, he removed with his family, except three daughters, to the town of Cornwallis, Kings Co., and become one of the original proprietors in 1761, receiving a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town for residence, and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the first church in Cornwallis. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. Some time after 1775 he removed with his son, Benjamin, to Waterborough, New Brunswick, later Canning, where they died. In a letter from Benjamin to his sister Submit, dated 16 Oct 1818, the statement is made: "Since I have seen you I have buried our honored father and mother, and two near and dear wives, two sons and one daughter."
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Benjamin Newcomb
Born 12 Oct 1746 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Benjamin Newcomb and Hannah (Clark) Newcomb
Brother of Hannah (Newcomb) Tanner, Benjamin Newcomb, Simon Newcomb, Lydia (Newcomb) Sackett, William Newcomb, Bethiah (Newcomb) Gray, Deborah (Newcomb) Miller, Jemima (Newcomb) Brymer, Submit (Newcomb) Woodworth, Oliver Charles Newcomb and Iram Newcomb
Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Newcomb — married 25 Jun 1766 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Submit Newcombe, Mary (Newcombe) Cowperthwaite and Lydia (Newcomb) Cowperthwaite
Died Dec 1818 in Waterborough, New Brunswick, Canadamap
Biography
Benjamin, bap. Oct. 12, 1746 ; m. Elizabeth Lewis.[1]
Benjamin Newcomb (Benjamin, Simon, Andrew, Andrew), bap. in Kent, Ct., Oct. 12, 1746; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1760, where he m. June 25, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lewis of Barnstable, Mass. He drafted shares of land in C. in 1761, though not one of the grantees of the township. Several lots were surveyed for him 1765, 1766, 1775. Soon after 1775 he removed with his family, his aged parents accompanying him, to Waterborongh, now Canning, in Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, where his wife, the mother of his ch., died. His 2d wife, name not preserved, d. in W. Apr. 9, 1818. He sold a part of his lands in Cornwallis, but frequently stated before his death that he still owned lands there. He d. in W. Dec. 1818.[2][3]
Sources
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 49 [1]
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 82 [2]
↑ Miner Descent, Profile of Benjamin Newcomb. 2010. Taken from Brown, Wall, Fisherand Allied Families. By Gladys Wall and E.H. Phillips. 1971. Page 160. Accessed 2016, and edited for style. https://minerdescent.com/2010/07/08/benjamin-newcomb/ https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/andrew-newcomb-45b.jpg
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Benjamin Newcomb
Posted on July 8, 2010 by markeminer
Benjamin NEWCOMB (1700 – 1775) was Alex's 6th Great Grandfather; one of 128 in this generation of the Miller line.
Benjamin Newcomb was born about 1700 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His parents were Simon NEWCOMB and Deborah LATHROP. He married Hannah CLARK in 1727 in Canaan, CT. After the final defeat of and expulsion of the Acadians, British control of the land was secured by repopulating the former French lands with settlers from the New England States. Between 1760 and 1768 some 8000 New England "Planters" came to a new colony, see my post New England Planters in New Brunswick for their historical story.
Kings County comprised three agricultural townships: Horton, Cornwallis, and Aylesford. Benjamin emigrated to Cornwallis Township in Kings County, Nova Scotia in 1760 at the same time as his four of his children. Benjamin died after 1775 in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada or in 1774 Waterborough, Royal, New Brunswick, Canada.
Waterborough, New Brunswick where Benjamin Newcomb died
Hannah Clark was born 21 Feb 1710/11 in Lebanon, CT. Her parents were William CLARK Jr and Bethiah WILLIAMS. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. That her surname was Clark is inferred from a charge upon his brother, Thomas Newcomb's acct. book, 10-12-1737, when Mr. Newcomb was debited with 17 1/2 lbs. tallow "by his mother Clark." Hannah died 2 Jan 1797 in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia.
Children of Benjamin and Hannah:
Name Born Married Departed
1. Hannah Newcomb c. 1728
Lebanon, CT William Tanner
23 Mar 1749
.
Elisha Hatch 6 Aug 1806 Canaan, CT
2. Benjamin Newcomb baptized 12 Oct 1729 Died Young
3. Simon Newcomb baptized
25 Jan 1730 Columbia, Toland, CT Served in the military from 1 Jul 1779 to 16 Dec 1780
4. Lydia Newcomb baptized 30 Jun 1731 Deacon Justus Sackett
1 Jan 1756 16 Nov 1808 Warren, CT
5. William Newcomb 18 Jun 1733 Willington CT Phebe Porter
Mar 1761
Cornwallis Nova Scotia 2 May 1814 Warren, CT
6. Bethiah (Berthia) Newcomb 26 Feb 1735 Lebanon, CT David Raymond
19 Feb 1756 Kent, CT
.
Nathaniel Gray
30 Dec 1773 Kent, Litchfield, CT 19 Aug 1811 Sherburne, NY
7. Benjamin Newcomb Baptized
12 Oct 1746 Kent, CT Elizabeth Lewis
25 Jun 1766 Cornwallis Township, Kings Co, Nova Scotia Dec 1818 Waterborough Sunbury Co, New Brunswick
8. Oliver Newcomb c. 1738
Kent or Lebanon, CT Mary Anne Mahegan
15 Dec 1773 Cornwallis Township c. 1821
Pope's Harbor, Nova Scotia
9. Iram Newcomb c. 1740 Kent or Lebanon, CT Elizabeth Lewis
1765
Kent, CT Canada
10. Deborah NEWCOMB 25 Mar 1744
Kent, Litchfield County, CT Isaac MILLER Sr.
22 May 1766 Kent CT
.
John Newcomb Jr (her 1st cousin)
13 Feb 1777
.
Nathaniel Gallop
Sunbury County
after 30 Jun 1783 c. 1796
11. Jemima Newcomb Baptized 27 Mar 1748 Colin Brymer
18 Sep 1776 Kent, CT Cornwallis Twp, Kings Co, Nova Scotia
12. Submit Newcomb 1750
Kent, CT John Woodworth
9 Feb 1769 Cornwallis Township 18 May 1821 Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia,
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1760 Place: Nova Scotia, Canada Family Members: Son Benjamin; Daughter Deborah; Son Iram; Daughter Jemima; Son Oliver; Daughter Submit; Son William
Benjamin moved with his father from Edgartown to Lebanon CT in 1713 and stayed there until 1732, then moved for four years to Willington, Connecticut, finally settling in Kent, Connecticut in 1742. He also bought land in neighboring Sharon.
Then like his brother, Deacon John Newcomb, he became fascinated by the land in Nova Scotia, from which the French Acadians had just been expelled, and where good established farmland was available. He moved again, with most of his family, becoming one of the original proprietors of Cornwallis in 1761. Cornwallis is across the Bay of Fundy from St John New Brunswick, See Satellite Map. He received a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town, for residence and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the 1st Church in Cornwallis.
They removed with their son, Benjamin after 1775, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury, New Brunswick, where both died.
His three eldest daughters had married men who did not want to leave Connecticut. The famous astronomer. Simon Newcomb (wiki), of the US Naval Observatory, was a descendant of his brother Simon.
Cornwallis Township was one of the original townships of Kings County, Nova Scotia. The township was named after Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It bordered Aylesford Township to the west and Horton Township to the south. After CFB Cornwallis closed in 1994 the property was converted to civilian use. A local development authority used the name Cornwallis Park and this name was formally adopted for the community in 2000. While the name has fallen into disuse on maps, many historical places and documents refer to Cornwallis. The Parish of Cornwallis, however, is still in use today after more than 250 years
After the French colonists, the Acadians were commanded to leave Nova Scotia in the Great Expulsion, the area was relatively desolate. The Township was established by a group historians refer to as the New England Planters. In the early 1760s the Planters brought with them the colonial pattern of land division; each town or township was to contain one hundred thousand acres.
A generation after the Planters, a sudden influx of United Empire Loyalist settlers arrived to escape the Revolutionary War in New England. Towns such as Kentville, Kingsport and Canning took shape.
Benjamin lived Lebanon, New London, CT; Kent, Litchfield, CT; Cornwall, Litchfield, CT; Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick; and Canning, Queens, New Brunswick.
From B.M. Newcomb's 1923 book.
Mr. Newcomb "owned covenant" at Lebanon in the oldest church, 15 Oct 1732. He had resided in Lebanon since the autumn of 1713, when he removed with his father's family, and there resided until 1732, when he went to Willington, Conn. After four years he returned to Lebanon. In 1733 Benjamin Newcomb with his father, Simon of Lebanon, bought land and rights amounting to 171 acres and 13 1/2 acres commons in Willington. Subsequently Mr. Newcomb established his home in Kent, Conn., where he wife was received to church 6 Jun 1742, and he, 26 Feb. 1749. The same year he bought 40 acres in Sharon for £700 "old tenor". Oct 1751 Benjamin Newcomb "of Cornwall Conn." is on petition.
About 1760, soon after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, he removed with his family, except three daughters, to the town of Cornwallis, Kings Co., and become one of the original proprietors in 1761, receiving a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town for residence, and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the first church in Cornwallis. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. Some time after 1775 he removed with his son, Benjamin, to Waterborough, New Brunswick, later Canning, where they died. In a letter from Benjamin to his sister Submit, dated 16 Oct 1818, the statement is made: "Since I have seen you I have buried our honored father and mother, and two near and dear wives, two sons and one daughter."
from WikiTree
Benjamin Newcomb
Born 12 Oct 1746 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Benjamin Newcomb and Hannah (Clark) Newcomb
Brother of Hannah (Newcomb) Tanner, Benjamin Newcomb, Simon Newcomb, Lydia (Newcomb) Sackett, William Newcomb, Bethiah (Newcomb) Gray, Deborah (Newcomb) Miller, Jemima (Newcomb) Brymer, Submit (Newcomb) Woodworth, Oliver Charles Newcomb and Iram Newcomb
Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Newcomb — married 25 Jun 1766 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Submit Newcombe, Mary (Newcombe) Cowperthwaite and Lydia (Newcomb) Cowperthwaite
Died Dec 1818 in Waterborough, New Brunswick, Canadamap
Biography
Benjamin, bap. Oct. 12, 1746 ; m. Elizabeth Lewis.[1]
Benjamin Newcomb (Benjamin, Simon, Andrew, Andrew), bap. in Kent, Ct., Oct. 12, 1746; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1760, where he m. June 25, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lewis of Barnstable, Mass. He drafted shares of land in C. in 1761, though not one of the grantees of the township. Several lots were surveyed for him 1765, 1766, 1775. Soon after 1775 he removed with his family, his aged parents accompanying him, to Waterborongh, now Canning, in Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, where his wife, the mother of his ch., died. His 2d wife, name not preserved, d. in W. Apr. 9, 1818. He sold a part of his lands in Cornwallis, but frequently stated before his death that he still owned lands there. He d. in W. Dec. 1818.[2][3]
Sources
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 49 [1]
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 82 [2]
↑ Miner Descent, Profile of Benjamin Newcomb. 2010. Taken from Brown, Wall, Fisherand Allied Families. By Gladys Wall and E.H. Phillips. 1971. Page 160. Accessed 2016, and edited for style. https://minerdescent.com/2010/07/08/benjamin-newcomb/ https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/andrew-newcomb-45b.jpg
Benjamin Newcomb
Posted on July 8, 2010 by markeminer
Benjamin NEWCOMB (1700 – 1775) was Alex's 6th Great Grandfather; one of 128 in this generation of the Miller line.
Benjamin Newcomb was born about 1700 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His parents were Simon NEWCOMB and Deborah LATHROP. He married Hannah CLARK in 1727 in Canaan, CT. After the final defeat of and expulsion of the Acadians, British control of the land was secured by repopulating the former French lands with settlers from the New England States. Between 1760 and 1768 some 8000 New England "Planters" came to a new colony, see my post New England Planters in New Brunswick for their historical story.
Kings County comprised three agricultural townships: Horton, Cornwallis, and Aylesford. Benjamin emigrated to Cornwallis Township in Kings County, Nova Scotia in 1760 at the same time as his four of his children. Benjamin died after 1775 in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada or in 1774 Waterborough, Royal, New Brunswick, Canada.
Waterborough, New Brunswick where Benjamin Newcomb died
Hannah Clark was born 21 Feb 1710/11 in Lebanon, CT. Her parents were William CLARK Jr and Bethiah WILLIAMS. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. That her surname was Clark is inferred from a charge upon his brother, Thomas Newcomb's acct. book, 10-12-1737, when Mr. Newcomb was debited with 17 1/2 lbs. tallow "by his mother Clark." Hannah died 2 Jan 1797 in Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia.
Children of Benjamin and Hannah:
Name Born Married Departed
1. Hannah Newcomb c. 1728
Lebanon, CT William Tanner
23 Mar 1749
.
Elisha Hatch 6 Aug 1806 Canaan, CT
2. Benjamin Newcomb baptized 12 Oct 1729 Died Young
3. Simon Newcomb baptized
25 Jan 1730 Columbia, Toland, CT Served in the military from 1 Jul 1779 to 16 Dec 1780
4. Lydia Newcomb baptized 30 Jun 1731 Deacon Justus Sackett
1 Jan 1756 16 Nov 1808 Warren, CT
5. William Newcomb 18 Jun 1733 Willington CT Phebe Porter
Mar 1761
Cornwallis Nova Scotia 2 May 1814 Warren, CT
6. Bethiah (Berthia) Newcomb 26 Feb 1735 Lebanon, CT David Raymond
19 Feb 1756 Kent, CT
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Nathaniel Gray
30 Dec 1773 Kent, Litchfield, CT 19 Aug 1811 Sherburne, NY
7. Benjamin Newcomb Baptized
12 Oct 1746 Kent, CT Elizabeth Lewis
25 Jun 1766 Cornwallis Township, Kings Co, Nova Scotia Dec 1818 Waterborough Sunbury Co, New Brunswick
8. Oliver Newcomb c. 1738
Kent or Lebanon, CT Mary Anne Mahegan
15 Dec 1773 Cornwallis Township c. 1821
Pope's Harbor, Nova Scotia
9. Iram Newcomb c. 1740 Kent or Lebanon, CT Elizabeth Lewis
1765
Kent, CT Canada
10. Deborah NEWCOMB 25 Mar 1744
Kent, Litchfield County, CT Isaac MILLER Sr.
22 May 1766 Kent CT
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John Newcomb Jr (her 1st cousin)
13 Feb 1777
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Nathaniel Gallop
Sunbury County
after 30 Jun 1783 c. 1796
11. Jemima Newcomb Baptized 27 Mar 1748 Colin Brymer
18 Sep 1776 Kent, CT Cornwallis Twp, Kings Co, Nova Scotia
12. Submit Newcomb 1750
Kent, CT John Woodworth
9 Feb 1769 Cornwallis Township 18 May 1821 Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia,
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1760 Place: Nova Scotia, Canada Family Members: Son Benjamin; Daughter Deborah; Son Iram; Daughter Jemima; Son Oliver; Daughter Submit; Son William
Benjamin moved with his father from Edgartown to Lebanon CT in 1713 and stayed there until 1732, then moved for four years to Willington, Connecticut, finally settling in Kent, Connecticut in 1742. He also bought land in neighboring Sharon.
Then like his brother, Deacon John Newcomb, he became fascinated by the land in Nova Scotia, from which the French Acadians had just been expelled, and where good established farmland was available. He moved again, with most of his family, becoming one of the original proprietors of Cornwallis in 1761. Cornwallis is across the Bay of Fundy from St John New Brunswick, See Satellite Map. He received a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town, for residence and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the 1st Church in Cornwallis.
They removed with their son, Benjamin after 1775, to Waterborough, now Canning, in Sunbury, New Brunswick, where both died.
His three eldest daughters had married men who did not want to leave Connecticut. The famous astronomer. Simon Newcomb (wiki), of the US Naval Observatory, was a descendant of his brother Simon.
Cornwallis Township was one of the original townships of Kings County, Nova Scotia. The township was named after Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It bordered Aylesford Township to the west and Horton Township to the south. After CFB Cornwallis closed in 1994 the property was converted to civilian use. A local development authority used the name Cornwallis Park and this name was formally adopted for the community in 2000. While the name has fallen into disuse on maps, many historical places and documents refer to Cornwallis. The Parish of Cornwallis, however, is still in use today after more than 250 years
After the French colonists, the Acadians were commanded to leave Nova Scotia in the Great Expulsion, the area was relatively desolate. The Township was established by a group historians refer to as the New England Planters. In the early 1760s the Planters brought with them the colonial pattern of land division; each town or township was to contain one hundred thousand acres.
A generation after the Planters, a sudden influx of United Empire Loyalist settlers arrived to escape the Revolutionary War in New England. Towns such as Kentville, Kingsport and Canning took shape.
Benjamin lived Lebanon, New London, CT; Kent, Litchfield, CT; Cornwall, Litchfield, CT; Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia; Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick; and Canning, Queens, New Brunswick.
From B.M. Newcomb's 1923 book.
Mr. Newcomb "owned covenant" at Lebanon in the oldest church, 15 Oct 1732. He had resided in Lebanon since the autumn of 1713, when he removed with his father's family, and there resided until 1732, when he went to Willington, Conn. After four years he returned to Lebanon. In 1733 Benjamin Newcomb with his father, Simon of Lebanon, bought land and rights amounting to 171 acres and 13 1/2 acres commons in Willington. Subsequently Mr. Newcomb established his home in Kent, Conn., where he wife was received to church 6 Jun 1742, and he, 26 Feb. 1749. The same year he bought 40 acres in Sharon for £700 "old tenor". Oct 1751 Benjamin Newcomb "of Cornwall Conn." is on petition.
About 1760, soon after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, he removed with his family, except three daughters, to the town of Cornwallis, Kings Co., and become one of the original proprietors in 1761, receiving a half-acre house-lot in the compact part of town for residence, and several large lots in the vicinity as his share. Mr. Newcomb and his wife aided in the organization of the first church in Cornwallis. Tradition says that Mrs. Newcomb was of Scotch descent. Some time after 1775 he removed with his son, Benjamin, to Waterborough, New Brunswick, later Canning, where they died. In a letter from Benjamin to his sister Submit, dated 16 Oct 1818, the statement is made: "Since I have seen you I have buried our honored father and mother, and two near and dear wives, two sons and one daughter."
from WikiTree
Benjamin Newcomb
Born 12 Oct 1746 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Benjamin Newcomb and Hannah (Clark) Newcomb
Brother of Hannah (Newcomb) Tanner, Benjamin Newcomb, Simon Newcomb, Lydia (Newcomb) Sackett, William Newcomb, Bethiah (Newcomb) Gray, Deborah (Newcomb) Miller, Jemima (Newcomb) Brymer, Submit (Newcomb) Woodworth, Oliver Charles Newcomb and Iram Newcomb
Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Newcomb — married 25 Jun 1766 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotiamap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Submit Newcombe, Mary (Newcombe) Cowperthwaite and Lydia (Newcomb) Cowperthwaite
Died Dec 1818 in Waterborough, New Brunswick, Canadamap
Biography
Benjamin, bap. Oct. 12, 1746 ; m. Elizabeth Lewis.[1]
Benjamin Newcomb (Benjamin, Simon, Andrew, Andrew), bap. in Kent, Ct., Oct. 12, 1746; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1760, where he m. June 25, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lewis of Barnstable, Mass. He drafted shares of land in C. in 1761, though not one of the grantees of the township. Several lots were surveyed for him 1765, 1766, 1775. Soon after 1775 he removed with his family, his aged parents accompanying him, to Waterborongh, now Canning, in Sunbury Co., New Brunswick, where his wife, the mother of his ch., died. His 2d wife, name not preserved, d. in W. Apr. 9, 1818. He sold a part of his lands in Cornwallis, but frequently stated before his death that he still owned lands there. He d. in W. Dec. 1818.[2][3]
Sources
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 49 [1]
↑ Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635-1874, by John Bearse Newcomb, pg 82 [2]
↑ Miner Descent, Profile of Benjamin Newcomb. 2010. Taken from Brown, Wall, Fisherand Allied Families. By Gladys Wall and E.H. Phillips. 1971. Page 160. Accessed 2016, and edited for style. https://minerdescent.com/2010/07/08/benjamin-newcomb/ https://minerdescent.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/andrew-newcomb-45b.jpg
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