On 29 Dec 1652 Elizabeth married
Ens. Thomas Newhall (6372) , son of
Thomas Newhall (2493) (1596-25 May 1674) &
Mary Wood(ard) (-25 Sep 1665), in Lynn, MA.
228 Born ca Apr 1629 in Sherington, Buckinghamshire. Thomas was baptized in Sherington, Buckinghamshire, on 26 Apr 1629. Thomas died in Lynn, MA on 1 Apr 1687.228 Buried on 1 Apr 1687 in Lynn, MA.228
Several publications have stated that Thomas Newhall, son of Thomas, was baptized by the Ref. Stephen Bachiler as the first which child born in Lynn. Bachiler arrived in New England in 1632. But his father Thomas actually settled in New England between 14 Jul 1637 when his daughter Mary was baptized in Sherington, Buckinghamshire, England, (see TAG 73 (1998):119-121), and 1638 when he received a division of 30 acres in Lynn, MA. This Thomas was baptized in Sherington on 26 Apr 1629. See Dean Crawford Smith’s article “When did Thomas Newhall of Lynn, Massachusetts, really immigrate to America?” TAG 293 (1999), 50-52.
“His residence was near the present [1908] site of George Kesar’s tannery near the center of the town.”108 ”In the March term, 1663, Thomas was tried before the quarterly court on an action of assault and bettery for striking the wife of WIlliam Longley. The testimony showed that Goody Longley accacked Newhall with a broadax, while her two daughters threw stones and struck Newhall several blows with ‘a peace of a pulle,’ while Newhall was trying to help run a line between land of John Newhall and William Longley. ... He was ensign in the military company. His homestead adjoined land of Benjamin Potter bounded on the common northerly and on the country road of highway southerly. He had a malt house.”47
From The Newhall Family of Lynn:86
In the March Term of 1663, Thomas was tried before the Quarterly Court on an action of Battery for striking the wife of Willm Longley, when the following deposition was taken :—
“The testimony of Elizabeth Newhall ye wife of John Senier and Mary Haven whoe sayth yt Thomas Newhall Junier was desiercd for to howld a poole for to rone a line between Will Longley and John Newhall: ye sayd Thomas Newhall stode one ye land of John Newhalls: then came ye two dafters of ye sayd Longley; namely Mary Longley & Anna Longley and threue stons at ye sayd Thomas Newhall; afterward ye sayd Anna toke up a peace of a pulle & stroke ye sayd Newhall severall blows with it, & presently after ye wife of ye sayd Longley came with a broad axe in hir hand and cam to ye sayd Newhall and violently stroke at ye sayd Newhall with ye axe, but ye sayd Newhall sliped aside & soe ye axe mised him: orwise wee cannot but thinke but yt hee had bine much wounded if not killed: then presently after ye wife of Will Longley layd howld upone ye poole with hir two dafters to pull ye poole away from ye sayd Newhall: but ye sayd Newhall pulled y e poole from ym. All this time ye sayd Thomas Newhall did stand upon ye land of John Newhalls. Taken upon oath 28–lm–’63.” It is but fair to say that there was another side to the story, according to the testimony of Mary Longley, who deposed that she, with her mother and sister Anna, was “striuing to get a poole from Thomas Newhall Junior, that he was holding up as I concerned to runne a line, he hauing hold
on one end we on the other and the said Newhall being on one side of our orchard fence and wee three on the other side of the said fence within our orchard; wee had almost pulled the poole out of his hands but his brother John came and helped him and pulled it from us, and after the said Newhall had got the poole againe he strucke my mother seuerall blows with the poole so thai one of her hands was black and blue severall dayes after.”
Also from The Newhall Family of Lynn:86
The Lynn Records inform us that Thomas Newhall, Senr , was buried the first of April, 1687. He probably left a Will; for, on the 14th of April, 1687, an Inventory of Ensigne Thomas Newhall of Lynn, late deceased, appraised 8th of April, 1687, by John Fuller, Senr. Ralph King and John Burrill, was presented by John Newhall, “one of the Executors,” and is recorded in Suffolk County; but no record of the Will appears and neither Will nor Inventory has been found in the Files. The Record of the latter shows that he was possessed of property valued at nearly 700£ . Of furniture he had, inter alia, a long table and two forms, a cupboard, cupboard cloth and cushion, a table-chair, a livery cupboard, with cupboard cloth and cushion and glass case, a table, six joined stools with a carpet and a joined chair and cushion. There were found five guns, for fowling and training, at four pounds, two swords at twenty shillings and books at twelve shillings. Of live stock he had a mare and a colt, two horses, thirty-eight sheep and fourteen lambs, four oxen (two at Josephs), six cows, besides numerous calves, yearlings, two-year olds, four-year olds, and swine. In the inventory of Real Estate we find “The Dwelling house and mault house & mault mill and house over it with all appurtenances belonging to the mault house and other prviledges with the Conveniences to the well, as also a six acre Lott adjoyning to the Dwelling house, and an orchard appertaining and an old Barne with all priveledges 170£–00s–00d;” 18 acres adj. the house of John Newhall; Blood’s neck marsh (7 1/4 acres); 3 acres of marsh at Burch Islands; 3 acres at E. side of Great Island in Runmey Marsh; 6 1/2 acres in Battie’s lot; 2 acres in Ramsdell’s neck ; 1 1/2 acre in Town marsh; 7 acres at Fox Hill; 30 acres in Reading; two ten-acre lots; 30acres possessed by Nath1 Newhall in the country; and a six-acre lot, only some part taken off that fronts upon the highway.
The location of Ensign Newhall’s homestead has been very carefully ascertained. Mr. Lewis had placed it on the present borders of Lynnfield; but the probabilities seem altogether opposed to that theory. The depositions made in the case of the death of his daughter Elizabeth show that in 1665 he was living near Geo. Keser’s Tannery, which would be likely to be near the centre of the town. Moreover the land in the Northerly part of the town he seems not to have bought until 30th Nov., 1679, when Ezekiel and Sarah Needham made a conveyance to him of threescore acres, bounded easterly with the dividing line between Salem and Lynn, westerly by the commons, northerly by “a certaine farme comonly caled Mr Humphries but now Major Rainsberry’s farme,” and southerly by the commons; which land the said Needham purchased of Daniel King, Senior, of Lynn, deceased. No houses are mentioned and a proper inference would be that Ensign Newhall bought this land for a farm with which to portion off his sons, Joseph, who was then recently married and was afterwards certainly in possession of some of this very land, and Nathaniel, another son, who appears in possession of another portion. The eldest son Thomas, it is well known, removed to Maiden. This leaves John and Samuel (one or both) to inherit the paternal homestead. John’s home, as will appear in a deed of gift to his son Jacob (1734), was next to the Great Bridge; while Samuel, as will also later appear, died in 1718, possessed of a homestead consisting of a dwelling house, two barns, one malt house and about twelve acres, bounded easterly with the land formerly of John Newhall, Senr, deceased, westerly with the land of Benjamin Potter, northerly with the common and southerly with the Country Road or Highway. From the fact that a malt house is mentioned, we may conjecture that this last described place was the homestead of Ensign Thomas Newhall, and from its bounding on the estate of his brother John, deceased, we may also infer that it formed a part of the farm of the first Thomas Newhall.