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- Mr. Thomas Maude says, that the house in which Sir Isaac Newton was born “is a farm-house at the little village of Woolsthorpe, consisting of a few messuages in the same stile of humility, about half a mile west from Coltersworth, on the great north road between Stamford and Grantham, known to every peasant in the neighbourhood.” The learned Dr. Stukely, in a letter to the celebrated Dr. Mead, first published in the Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1772, says that Sir Isaac “was born in the manor-house, which was the family estate, where they held a court-leet, and a court-baron. This manor, which is Sir Isaac’s paternal estate, is about 30£. per annum; but he had another estate at Sustern, adjacent, which came by his mother; so that the whole was near 80£. and descends to his next heir, John Newton, who is derived from his father's second brother. I visited this place 13th Oct. 1721, and took a prospect of the church of Colsterworth, and of his house at Woolsthorpe. It is built of stone, as in the way of the country thereabouts, and a reasonable good one. They led me up stairs, and shewed me Sir Isaac's study, where I suppose he studied when in the country, in his younger days, as, perhaps, when he visited his mother from the university. I observed the shelves were of his own making, being pieces of deal boxes, which, probably he sent his book sand clothes down in upon these occasions. There were, some years ago, three or four hundred books in it, of his father-in-law, Mr. Smith's, which Sir Isaac gave to Mr. Newton of Grantham.”
source: Towers, Joseph, comp. British Biography; or, an Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff, who Begun the Reformation by His Writings, to the Present Time, Volume 7. London, UK: R. Goadby, 1772, p. 144.
- Mr. Maude informs us, that Sir Isaac made some trifling purchases near Woolsthorpe; and that “his whole estate in that neighbourhood, amounted at the time of his death to about 105£. per annum, which fell to the share of his second cousin, Robert Newton; who being dissolute; and illiterate, soon dissipated his estate in extravagance, dying about the 30th year of his age in 1737, at Coltersworth, by a tobacco pipe breaking in his throat, in a fall, occasioned by ebriety. The father of the above Robert, was John Newton, a carpenter, afterwards game keeper to Sir Isaac, and who died at the age of sixty, in 1725. It is very certain, that Sir Isaac had no full brothers or sisters; but his mother, by her second marriage with Mr. Smith, the rector of North Witham, a parish adjoining to Coltersworth, had a son and two or three daughters which issue, female, afterwards branching by marriages with persons of the names of Barton and Conduit, families of property, and respectable character, partook with the Smiths of Sir Isaac's personal effects, which were very considerable.” Fontenelle says that his personal estate when he died amounted to thirty-two thousand pounds; and he also tells us, that Sir Isaac made no will because he thought a legacy was no gift.
source: Towers, Joseph, comp. British Biography; or, an Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff, who Begun the Reformation by His Writings, to the Present Time, Volume 7. London, UK: R. Goadby, 1772, p. 158.
- John Newton a carpenter, afterwards gamekeeper to Sir Isaac, buried at Colsterworth Oct. 13th 1725 aged 60.
source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871.
- i. JOHN NEWTON, yeoman and carpenter, of Woolsthorpe, born circa 1665; acted as gamekeeper to Sir Isaac. He was buried 13 October, 1725, aged 60. By his will, dated 19 September, 1725, he left land in Colsterworth and Woolsthorpe to his son John, whom he appointed executor. By Martha his wife, (who was living in 1737), he had,
I. JOHN NEWTON, yeoman, of Colsterworth, born circa 1707. He was heir-at-law to Sir Isaac Newton, and inherited his property at Woolsthorpe and Sewstern. Sir D. Brewster, in his Life of Newton, says of John that he became a worthless and dissolute person who very soon wasted the ancient patrimony, and falling down with a tobacco pipe in his mouth when drunk, it broke in his throat and put an end to his life at the age of thirty. He sold the manor of Woolsthorpe to Mr Edmund Tumor, of Stoke Rochford, in 1723. He left, however, the income of an estate in Colsterworth and Woolsthorpe, to his mother Martha for her life, and the reversion of the estate to his two sisters, Mary Bridges and Alice Newton. He was buried at Colsterworth, 22 June, 1737. His will was dated 31 May, 1737, and proved 2 October following, by his mother, the executrix.
I. MARY NEWTON, of age in 1725; the wife of – Bridges in 1737.
II. ALICE NEWTON, under 21 in 1725; living in 1737.
source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928.
source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928.
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