Lieut. Andrew NEWCOMB

Abt 1640 - Aft 1708  (68 years)

• Name	Andrew NEWCOMB  [1, 2]
  	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. [1]
  Prefix	Lieut.
  Birth	Abt 1640  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 20 Aug 1706 Bef 22 Oct 1708	Edgartown, Marth's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I73703	Main Tree
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	Capt Andrew NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1618, Prob. England d. Nov 1686, Boston, Massachusetts (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Unknown
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F29885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah UNKNOWN   d. Abt 1674, Kittery, Maine
  Marriage	Abt 1661  [1]
  Children	1. Simeon NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1662, Kittery, Maine  [Birth]   2. Andrew NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1664   d. Jun 1678, Edgartown, Massachusetts (Age 14 years)  [Birth] + 3. Simon NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1665, Poss. Kittery, York Co., Maine d. 20 Jan 1744/5, Lebanon, Connecticut (Age 80 years)  [Birth]   4. Thomas NEWCOMB,   b. 1668, Kittery, Maine  [Birth]   5. Sarah NEWCOMB,   b. 1670  [Birth]   6. Mary or Mercy NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1672   d. 13 Nov 1736 (Age 64 years)  [Birth] + 7. Peter NEWCOMB,   b. Abt 1674, Isles of Shoals, near Portsmouth, New Hampshire d. Bef 31 Mar 1723 (Age 49 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Anna BAYES,   b. Abt 1658, Edgartown, Massachusetts d. Poss. Sept 1731, Edgartown, Marth's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1676	Edgartown, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. Anna NEWCOMB,   b. 1677  [Birth]   2. Elizabeth NEWCOMB,   b. 1681  [Birth]   3. Joseph NEWCOMB,   b. 1683  [Birth]   4. Emblem NEWCOMB,   b. 1685  [Birth] + 5. Tabitha NEWCOMB,   b. 1688  [Birth]   6. Hannah NEWCOMB,   b. 1694  [Birth]   7. Zerviah NEWCOMB,   b. 1698/99  [Birth]   8. Mary NEWCOMB,   b. 1700  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29884	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2016

  
  

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• Sources

  [S5685] Bethuel Merritt Newcomb, "Andrew Newcomb" 1618-1686 and His Descendants, (Privately printed for the author by The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn. 1923). [S3601] Leonard H. Smith Jr., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy Vol. 1.