Newton Family Papers (Ms.Newton)

Biographical/Historical note

Manuscript copies of 18th and 19th century broadside verse, made by members of the Newton family, chiefly Mrs. Miriam Newton and Miss Nancy Newton, with an occasional original piece. Six home-made manuscript booklets containing accounts, genealogies, verse and prose; copies of sermons; excerpts from religious books; biographies of famous people from Adam to Timothy Dwight; accounts of local blizzards, gales, storms, etc.; newsworthy local events. Compiled mostly in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire. Little is known about the Newton Family with the exception that they resided in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Marlboro, New Hampshire.