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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Civil Service
Birth: abt 1713 / South Barrow / Wales Death: abt Mar 1784
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
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Samuel Newell was born about 1713 in the British Isles. He arrived at New Castle Delaware from Belfast on 03Feb1730 with the families of his father Samuel Newell and uncle William Newell. They settled around Cedar Creek in old Frederick County VA in the 1740s. There widower Samuel Newell married widow Elizabeth Colville Black. On 20Sep1757 militia Captain Lewis Stephens wrote to George Washington that Indians raided the plantation of Samuel Newell (Marlboro VA).
In 1771 Samuel Newell was a leader of a caravan of settlers from Opequon to Wolf Hill on the Holston where he was an organizer of Fincastle, later Washington County. He was an elder of Sinking Spring Presbyterian congregation, a road commissioner, and first tax commissioner of Washington County. Too old for deployment, Samuel Newell was a guard at Black’s little fort.
In 1783, Samuel Newell moved south of the French Broad and lived near the corner of current Blount, Knox, and Sevier counties. He was a signatory of several appeals to North Carolina regarding the aborted State of Franklin and administration of the frontier settlements. On 05May1794 administration of the Samuel Newell estate was assigned in Knox County Book I. On 04Aug1794 the estate settlement was posted in Knox County Book I. Samuel Newell is believed to be buried in one of the early unmarked graves at Eusebia Presbyterian Cemetery.
Married widow Elizabeth Colville Black in Frederick County VA 1753.
Children:
Thomas Newell by prior marriage
Samuel Newell
Sarah Newell Vance
Militia – lived adjacent Captain Lewis Stephens where George Washington’s troops were garrisoned in Fall 1757. Newell is mentioned in correspondence from Stephens to Washington.
Moved to Wolf Hills (Fincastle County later Abingdon VA) 1776
Owner Wyndale Station tract
Tax Commissioner, Washington County VA, 1777
Probable burial at Eusebia Cemetery, Blount County TN where step children are buried.
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