Georgia   Biographies  John Newton
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JOHN NEWTON

John Newton was born in the city of Charleston, 16th
January, 1755.  He was in the army early in the
Revolutionary war, till his death.  In 1779, a sergeant
and corporal of the British army, with eight soldiers,
were conducting some American prisoners from Ebenezer to
Savannah.  They halted two miles from town, to slake
their thrist at a spring, having stcked their arms
against a tree. Sergeants Jasper and Newton, who had been
watching their movements, and endeavoring to rescue their
prey, rushed from their place of concealment, seized two
of the muskets, shot the sentinels, captured the others,
and liberated the prisoners!

In the capture of Charleston, in 1780, Newton was taken
prisoner, and soon after died of the small-pox.  Several
of his friends were also taken prisoners, and some died
of the same loathsome disease.  Newton’s father, the Rev.
John Newton, removed into Georgia immediately after the
war, and settled near Fenn’s Bridge, on the Ogechee,
where he died.

Ref:   Sherwood, Adiel, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, 1837, Printed by P. Force, Washington City, p.
300.

NEWTON COUNTY, GEORGIA

Laid out from Jasper, Walton and Henry, in 1821; part
added to Jasper, 1822; part to De Kalb, 1826; and a part
to Jasper, 1834.  Named after Sergeant John Newton, of
Revolutionary celebrity.

COVINGTON  is the county site, 67 miles from
Milledgeville.

Ref:  White, Rev. George, M.A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF
GEORGIA, 1854, Pudney & Russell, Publishers, New York,
pp. 574-579.  [Reprinted 1968, Heritage Papers,
Danielsville, GA]






Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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