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About John Newton
John Newton was born in Wapping, London, in 1725, the son of John Newton Sr., a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth Newton (née Seatclife), a Nonconformist Christian.
His mother died of tuberculosis in July, 1732, about two weeks before his seventh birthday. Two years later, he went to live in Aveley, the home of his father's new wife. Newton spent two years at boarding school. At age eleven he went to sea with his father. Newton sailed six voyages before his father retired in 1742. Newton's father made plans for him to work at a sugar plantation in Jamaica. Instead, Newton signed on with a merchant ship sailing to the Mediterranean Sea.
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John Newton's Timeline
| 1725 |
July 24, 1725
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London, Middlesex, England
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| 1759 |
March 17, 1759
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Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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| 1807 |
December 21, 1807
Age 82
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London, Middlesex, England UK
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