Newton County GaArchives News.....SERGEANT NEWTON August 13 1926
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The Covington News
     Sergeant John Newton, for whom our county was named, was born in the city 
of Charleston, S. C., Jan. 16, 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, Ga., to Savannah. They 
halted two miles from town to quench their thirst at a spring, having stacked 
their arms against a tree. Sergeants Jasper and Newton who were 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 American prisoners.
     In the capture of Charleston in 1780 Newton was taken prisoner and soon 
after died of small pox.


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