Information About William Newman, One of the Englishmen Who Signed Thomas Pell's Treaty on June 27, 1654

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This is the last in a series of four postings regarding four of the Englishmen who witnessed the signing of Thomas Pell's treaty on June 27, 1654. For yesterday's posting, see Thursday, November 1, 2007: Information About John Ffinch, One of the Englishmen Who Signed Thomas Pell's Treaty on June 27, 1654. For the second posting in the series, see Wednesday, October 31, 2007: Information About Richard Crabb, One of the Englishmen Who Signed Thomas Pell's Treaty on June 27, 1654. For the first posting in this series, which includes links to earlier postings dealing with the same topic, see Tuesday, October 30, 2007: Information About Henry Accorly, One of the Englishmen Who Signed Thomas Pell's Treaty on June 27, 1654.

"NEWMAN, WILLIAM, hath assigned to him by the town, in Oct., 1642, two acres marsh and three acres woodland. In 1659 complaints having been made to the court in New Haven respecting the 'sizing of shoes,' the court hearing that William Newman had an instrument which he had brought from England which 'was thought to be right to determine this question, did order that the said instrument should be procured and sent to New Haven, to be made a 'Standard' which shall be the rule between buyer and seller, to which it is required that all sizes be conformed.' Mr. Newman was evidently a man of note in the young colony, and once represented the town in the General Court. Savage supposes he may have removed to Narra- [Page 38 / Page 39] gansett after 1669. In 1676 William Newman, planter of Stamford, sells to John Austin, 'taylor' of Stamford some land. His will, dated 7.9. 1673, makes his legatees, his wife Elizabeth, and his children, Thomas, Daniel, John, -----, Elizabeth, and Hannah. It also mentions his brother John."

Source: Huntington, E. B., History of Stamford, Connecticut, From its Settlement in 1641 to the Present Time Including Darien, Which Was One of its Parishes Until 1820, pp. 38-39 (Stamford, CT: Published by the Author, 1868).

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