Andrew NEWCOMB

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In the record of their marriage it is stated that Mr. Newcomb was "of Eastham." They resided in Scituate until after the birth of their first child, when they settled n the northern part of Truro, Mass., near a place known as "Newcomb's Point." Andrew Newcomb and his wife were admitted to the church at Truro 2 May 1730. He was one of the proprietors of Truro and received by division, 1715-1730, several lots of land. In 1715 he was "to have as much land about where his house now standeth as he hath in the 6th lot of wood land division of Eastern harbor." In 1716 "Town meeting for settling a School agreed the School shall be kept one half the time at Andrew Newcombs or somewhere thereabouts." In 1723 "agreed the school should be settled the first half year at house of Andrew Newcomb or as near it as may be," and agin, in 1730, the same decision regarding the location of the school was made. In 1719 Mr. Newcomb was chosen moderator of town meeting and the three years following. 1720-1-2, he served as selectman. He was a grand juryman in 1730. His cattle mark was "a crop off ye tip of right ear."

Andrew married Mercy OLDHAM on 4 Nov 1708 in Scituate, Massachusetts. Mercy was born on 28 Jul 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert NEWCOMB was born on 21 Jun 1722 in Truro, Massachusetts; died on 13 May 1802.

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The name of his wife or the dates of their death are not on record.


He resided in the north part of Eastham, now Truro, Cape Cod, Mass. january 28, 1701/2, "voted to make inquiry concerning a whale whitch (it is said) Simon Newcomb and Rich Rich cut up at Billingsgate last year." Mr. Newcomb was chosen fence-view in 1702. There was laid out to him in 1711, as one of the proprietors of Truro, two pieces of land--4 acres for his tenement on Lieutenants Island, 2 acres in northeasterly corner and 2 acres northeasterly of Samuel Mayo, Jr's, lot. "A record of the divition of the pond of Moonpoon and the Old Field at Eastern harbor in ye north part of Truro called Moonpoon old field divition as they were laid out and lotted and bounded for ye proprietors thereof on ye fourth day of march 1711-12 the 6th lot fell to Wm. Dyer, Simeon Newcomb and Daniel and Benj. Small," 12 acres. he received, by division other lots of land near the line of Eastham and Truro and near Pamet Point.

His name, as also those of his sons, Simon and Andrew, was signed 12 June 1711 to a petition of the inhabitants of Billingsgate, a village of Eastham, "desiring John Done to go before the governor and seek remedy for difficulties they were subject to." The petition is now on file in Vol. 113, p. 606 of Mass. Archives at Boston......

Simeon married Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Andrew Newcomb was residing at the Isles of Shoals as early as July 1666, as at this date he attended a meeting at the Isles of Shoals, near Portsmouth, N.H., of several merchants and men engaged in the fisheries, for the purpose of fixing the price of fish......

The name of his first wife, Sarah (?), whom he m. about 1661, has been found but once upon record. From deeds at Exeter, N.H., Vol. 3, p. 80, it appears that "Andrew Newcombe, of HOgg Island (so called from its rude resemblance to a hog's ack) on ye Ile of Sholes," fisherman, for L52 in merchantable fish, sold Henry Platts, of same place, with consent of his wife, Sarah, house on Hog Island (not described) 19 July 1673, in the 25th year of Charles the Second, deed recorded 21 July 1673. From the foregoing it would seem that Mr. Newcomb had previously lived upon Hog Island and after the purchase of his house in Kittery he removed his family to the mainland.

Mr. Newcomb removed from Kittery and Isles of Shoals in the year 1674 or early in 1675. From the foregoing it will be seen that after the decision of the Court at Wells (7 July 1674), he turned over to John Cutt his house and land in Kittery and, his wife having died previously, he took his seven young and motherless children to a more favorable locality, for it is possible that the Indians had become troublesome in that locality, as King Philip's war broke out in June 1675, and this may have influenced him in his removal. He settled at Edgartown, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, the same year, where he became a proprietor and at various times received shares in the divisions of lands in that town and where he and his wife both died.

That Mr. Newcomb was one of the prominent citizens of Martha's Vineyard is shown by the fact that he was juror at quarter court at Eastham 25 Sept. 1677 and 28 Dec 1680; foreman of grand jury Sept. 1681, June 1700 and 1703, and 7 Mar. 1704; constable in 1681; was chosen 25 Nov 1685, with two others, "to make ye governors rate of three half penny upon ye pound"; tithing-man 10 May 1693; select-man 1693-4; and overseer 16 Mar. 1693-4. His name appears many times upon record as witness to deeds, etc. Upon the records of martha's Vineyard, Mass., he is in nearly every case called "Mr." a title then conferring more honor and distinction and doubtless commanding higher respect than that of "Hon." at the present day. There are reasons for believing that he was a merchant several and perhaps many years. On the 18th Feb. 1683 he paid Nathaniel Fryer L3: 11s. in feathers....


Mr. Newcomb appears to have died without making a will, and no inventory or settlement of his estate has been found upon record.

By his first wife he had seven children, all of whom appear to have been born in the vicinity of Kittery, Me. By his second wife there were eight children, all of whom were married and had families, and although no record of their births has been preserved yet their relationship as brother and sisters, also that they were children of Andrew and Anna Newcomb, has been authenticated by a plea for partition of land brought 1 oct. 1731, in which all, or nearly all of the children and heirs are named.

Andrew married Sarah UNKNOWN about 1661. Sarah died about 1674 in Kittery, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]