General Notes

Third of the Newman sons to come to America was John Newman Jr. , 24, who emigrated to Virginia in 1635 in the ship "Globe". John settled in James City County. where on 1 April 1644 Henry Thompson assigned to him 150 acres of land situated upon Smith' s Fort Creek. He appears to have resided there for about seven years, as between 1652 and 1677, he had acquired in the Northern Neck by letters patent, grant, and deeds, about 4 000 acres of land situated on both sides of Moratico Creek in the present counties of Lancaster and Richmond. He resided near Tarplay's Point, then known as Moratico or Newman's Neck. He married a Miss Wooldridge (about 1655), daughter of Paul Wooldridge, in then Rappahannock County. They had three sons, Alexander, Samuel and John." SOURCE: Gleanings of Virginia History by William Fletcher Boogher.