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NSSAR #223684 states: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
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Author: Thomas A. Lesser
Andrew Newell, the son of David Newell (1704-1778) and Mary Gardner (1710-1789), was baptized on February 10, 1750, in the First Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts.1 No record of his date of birth has been located.
Andrew Newell married Mary Frothingham (baptized April 28, 1754-1778) on August 1, 1772. They had three children: Katharine (who died as a child), Joseph, and Thomas. Both Thomas and Joseph would die in 1798 within months of their father’s death. All three died of Yellow Fever.2
During the Revolutionary War, Andrew first served as a “deputy commissary” in Massachusetts.3 He was a private in Captain John William's Company, in the Battalion of Massachusetts Forces commanded by Colonel Rufus Putman, from June 17, 1778, to March 17, 1779.4 He was ordered by General Artemas Ward (Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts forces) to proceed to Watertown, Massachusetts to lodge 10 swivel guns under his command. He participated in the battles of Concord and Bunker Hill.5
After the battle of Bunker Hill, Charlestown was burnt to the ground. Andrew Newell applied for compensation for the loss of half a house, a whole house, a barn, trees, fences, and personal estate, totaling 509 pounds 12 shillings, and 3 pence.6 On October 21, 1779, he married Abigail Bridges (1756-1782).7
Andrew Newell married Elizabeth Wyeth on February 14, 1785, by Reverend Timothy Hilliard, Pastor of the First Church of Cambridge, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their children were: Catharine (not to be confused with the above Katharine), Mary Frothingham (named after Andrew’s first wife), Elizabeth, Abigail (who died only 11 months old), and Abigail (yes, a second child named Abigail).8
The Newells moved to New York City (what we now call Manhattan) in about 1790. He was “sworn & admitted as free men of this City” on January 9, 1797.9 Andrew was a cooper (a maker or repairer of casks and barrels) at 12 Ferry Street10 on the East River.
Andrew died of Yellow Fever on August 30, 1798, and was first buried at the "Wallabout," at the foot of Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. The headstone read "Sacred to the memory of Andrew Newell." That cemetery was demolished, and the remains of Andrew Newell were re-interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York11, in the Cedar Dells plot. As of 1980, the inscription was no longer legible.12
Sources:
Records Of The First Church In Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789, p. 147.
“A Genealogy of the Wyeth - Newell - Tiemann Family”, 1893, compiled by Abby Antoinette Tiemann Tackaberry (1848- 1936), commissioned by her uncle Julius W. Tiemann (1817-1903), p. 12.
Regiments and armories of Massachusetts; a historical narration of the Massachusetts volunteer militia, with portraits and biographies of officers past and present, Charles Winslow Hall, c1899-c1901, p. 274
“A Genealogy of the Wyeth - Newell - Tiemann Family, p. 10
Ibid p. 10
Horns A’Plenty Newells-Tiemanns-Wyeth, Angnes Groussett, 1980, p. 81 {Note: This source is NOT accepted by SAR.}
History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877, Lucius R. Paige, 1877, p. 704
Minutes of the Common Council of the city of New York, 1784-1831 Vol. II. Volume twelve of manuscript minutes June 6, 1796 to December 30, 1799, p. 316
New York City Directory, 1791, p. 93
“A Genealogy of the Wyeth - Newell - Tiemann Family”, 13
Horns A’Plenty Newells-Tiemanns-Wyeth
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