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- 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, 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.
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.
- John Newton of Lincolnshire [became heir at law to Sir Isaac. Brewster says of him John became a worthless & dissolute person who very soon wasted this antient patrimony & falling down with a tobacco pipe in his mouth when drunk, it broke in his throat & put an end to his life at the age of thirty years & was buried at Colsterworth June 22nd 1737].
source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871.
- 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.
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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