Mark Newby, immigrant

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Nov 7 2017, 6:53:56 UTC
• Probably the same Mark Newby, Quaker in Dublin who with others Including Anthony Sharp, witnessed the Testimony of Friends against Joan Pildrem (sic) and her Companion dated 1st of the1st month 1667/68 and 1669 in Dublin as sworn by one Thomas Loe of the same place.
  

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"At a meeting of the Assembly of West Jersey in 1682, Mark Newby and another were appointed to take measures for defraying public charges in the third, or Irish, tenth. Mark was evidently an Irishman; and an Act was passed that for the more convenient payment of small sums of money Mark Newby’s coppers, called Patrick’s half-pence, should pass for pence current pay, provided he gave security to the speaker of the General Assembly that he, his heirs and administrators would change them on demand, and provided, further, that none were obliged to take more than five shillings in one payment. Patrick’s half-pence were Irish half-pence, a parcel of which Newby had brought in with him. 105 This is curious, but not important. There is nothing to show the purchasing power of the half-pence or the real value for which they passed current." ~• source = http://www.trentonhistory.org/His/colonial.html (He was mistaken for being an Irishman as he and family had, for a while, been part of a Quaker Mtg. in that country. {MMvB curator} original source: Smith, History of New Jersey, p. 153, and note.

Children

"As far as ascertained, he had two sons and two daughters :
Rachel, m. Isaac Decou.in 1695 ; Stephen, m. Elizabeth Wood,
in 1703; Edward, in Hannah Chew, in 1706; and Elizabeth, m. John Hogg ~• (Hugg?), in 1 7 14. " < Elizabeth is NOT his daughter John Hugg married Elizabeth née Wood.

Hannah, the widow of Mark Newbie, married James Atkinson, in 1685.

BIO

Mark Newbie, says Judge Clement, "was a resident of the city of London, and a tallow chandler." He was a member of a Friends' Meeting, whose house of worship was in a street of that city, called "Barbican, " and removed to Dublin, in (XXXX)

Unfortunately the Judge does not give his authority for this statement or it might be confirmed ; but this date of removal to London is at least ten years too late, for Stockdale mentions Newbie as a persecuted Quaker shopkeeper residing in Thomas Street, Dublin, in 1671. Says Stockdale : '

In 1671, Mark Newby, of Thomas Street, Dublin, " because for Conscience sake he could not be an observer of Holidays (so- called) he opened his Shop on the 25th of the loth month, called Christmas day." For this he "had his house assaulted by a rude multitude," who with great violence threw dirt and stones into "his Shop, endangering his Life and his Families ; spoyled Shop-goods, broke Glass-windows and Pewter vessels, abused their Neighbours for reproving them ; the said Mark was damnified " 16 s. 6d.

Mark Newby set out for New Jersey, in the latter part of 1681, in Ye Owners Adventure and settled at Newton, the first Friends' meetings being held at his house. In the political affairs of New Jersey he took a prominent part and filled several positions of trust and responsibility. At the May term of the Legislature, in 1682, he appeared as a member, and was selected by the Governor as one of his Council. He was made one of the Land Commissioners and one of the Committee of Ways and Means to raise money for the use of the government. He died probably early in 1683, for at the May term of the Legislature in 1683 he is mentioned as deceased.