Rev. Samuel Newman, I

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Reverend Samuel Newman, 1602-1663 was a learned clergyman and the first prominent settler of present-day East Providence. He was acclaimed for his studies of the King James Bible, and established the Newman Congregational Church in what is now the Rumford section of East Providence. He has not received as much acclaim as other Rhode Island founders because his village at Rumford was beyond the boundaries of Rhode Island until the state annexed East Providence in 1862.

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Samuel Newman (May 10, 1602 – July 5, 1663) was a clergyman in colonial Massachusetts whose concordance of the Bible, published first in London in 1643, far surpassed any previous work of its kind.

Newman was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1602, son of Richard Newman. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1620, took orders in the Church of England. He was prosecuted for nonconformity and emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably in 1636.

After preaching nearly two years at Dorchester, he became pastor of the church at Weymouth, where he remained until 1643. The following year he removed with part of his church to Seconet, in Plymouth Colony. There they founded the town of Rehoboth, which then embraced what is now Seekonk, Massachusetts and Rumford, Rhode Island. He died in Rehoboth on July 5, 1663.

Newman's famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors. The first edition was published in London in 1643, just before Newman's removal from Weymouth to Rehoboth. At Rehoboth, he revised and greatly improved it, using in the evening (according to Ezra Stiles, a President of Yale) pine knots instead of candles. The second edition was published at Cambridge in 1662 and the concordance was usually known after that as the Cambridge Concordance. The concordance was reprinted at least as late as 1889, almost 250 years after it was first published.

family

Samuel Newman b. abt. 10 May 1602 at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; bapt.  24 May 1602 at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; m. 10 June 1624 Sibbell Featly at Banbury, Oxfordshire England; d. 5 July 1653 at Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, aged 51 years.

Their Children:

• 1. Samuel b. 6 July 1625 at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
• 2. Antipas b. 15 October 1627 at Midhorne, England; m. 1658 Elizabeth Winthrop; d. 16 October 1672 , aged 45 years.
• 3. Noah b. 10 January 1631 at Midhorne, England; m. Joanna Flint; d. 15 April 1678, aged 47 years.
• 4. Hopestill b. 20 November 1641 at Weymouth, Norfolk, MA; m. 12 July 1664 George Shove; d. 7 March 1675, aged 33 years.

Notes

      Samuel Newman entered the University at Oxford at age 16, approx. 1616. He graduated from Trinity College at Oxford on 17 October 1620, with honors. He then took orders in the Church of England. Due to his nonconformity he was prosecuted. He then immigrated to America about 1635. He was supposed to be on the same vessel as Rev. Richard Mather. He was at first at Dorchester, Suffolk, MA. He was listed as a church member of Dorchester in  1636. He was admitted a freeman in 1638. In 1639 he moved to Weymouth,Norfolk, MA there he preached for about five years. Towards the end of 1643 he moved with many from his congregation to Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. The taxation of his new property was £530.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Newman

Newman was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, in 1602, son of Richard Newman. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1620, took orders in the Church of England. He was prosecuted for nonconformity and emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably in 1636.

After preaching nearly two years at Dorchester, he became pastor of the church at Weymouth, where he remained until 1643. The following year he removed with part of his church to Seconet, in Plymouth Colony. There they founded the town of Rehoboth, which then embraced what is now Seekonk, Massachusetts and Rumford, Rhode Island. He died in Rehoboth on July 5, 1663.

Newman's famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors. The first edition was published in London in 1643, just before Newman's removal from Weymouth to Rehoboth. At Rehoboth, he revised and greatly improved it, using in the evening (according to Ezra Stiles, a President of Yale) pine knots instead of candles. The second edition was published at Cambridge in 1662 and the concordance was usually known after that as the Cambridge Concordance. The concordance was reprinted at least as late as 1889, almost 250 years after it was first published.

• Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of our Lord, 1698. London : printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
• Savage, James. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer’s Register. Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1860-62.
• The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 14 edited by Sir Sidney Lee page 339