Obadiah NEWCOMB

Family/Spouse: Agibail ?. Agibail was born about 1693; died on 9 May 1757 in Hebron, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Daniel NEWCOMB was born on 29 Nov 1729 in Hebron, Connecticut; died about 1789 in Hebron, Connecticut.

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It is possible that at the time of his birth his parents were residing upon one of the island of the group called "Isles of Shoals", situated in the ocean, a few miles from Kittery and Portsmouth. It appears that the first four years of his life were spent on what was then called Hog Island or Appledore, the most picturesque of the "Shoals." The next four years were spent on the mainland, in the village of Kittery. Soon after he was eight years old the family removed to Edgartown, on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes Co., Mass., where they remained until the autumn of 1713, when his father established the family at Lebanon, New London Co., Conn......

....Mr. Newcomb served as member of various committees in town affairs; in May 1693 had "full power and order for ye ordering of ye sheep & Cattle"; signed a venire as Canstable of Chelmark, 1699 (According to Court Records); was chosen to settle bounds of lands in 1704; viewed lands to find Thomas Peas' dividend on 28 Jan. 1705; found record of town's bounds 5 Me. 1705/6; in 1710 he was chosen by his townsmen as "Field Drive" at Edgartown. Simon newcomb took the Freeman's oath at Lebanon and was elected highway surveyor in 1714. On 15 Sept. of the same year he was one of a "Comity" of three for building "meetin" house in Hebron, and reported. 5 Oct. following, a proper site for same. In 1718 he was chosen grand juryman; in 1721 he was appointed guardian to Caleb Jones and in 1741 was chosen fence viewer.

That Mr. Newcomb and his wife belonged to the churches of Edgartown and Lebanon there an be no doubt; but the loss of early records makes it impossible to give positive proof. That they had a family of about twelve children, baptized in infancy, is proven by a tradition, entitled to the very highest respect, and furnished by John Burton Newcomb, in 1873, then 64 years of age, who stated that his father's mother, Mercy (Gore) Newcomb, his contemporary twenty-four years, informed him that her husband's father, Simon, who died when she was twenty-four years old, told her that he was the youngest (or nearly the youngest) of a large family, about twelve in number, all of whom were in their infancy presented to the Lord in baptism and prayer by their pious and truly exemplary parents. (This leaves an opening for other children, providing a record of such can be found, who perhaps died young.)

Simon married Deborah UNKNOWN about 1687 in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Deborah was born about 1664; died on 17 Jun 1756 in Lebanon, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]