Individual Details
Rev. Samuel Newman
(March 15, 1713 - March 7, 1779)
Samuel Newman was granted land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1738. The Newman family moved from Cecil County, Maryland shortly after the younger brothers received their inheritance from Walter Newman, Sr.
Even though their marriage cannot be verified, Samual and Martha were baptized on 12 July 1740 in Mongomery Baptist Church, Colmar, Pennsylvania.
Samuel and his wife lived in Pennsylvania until around 1744 when they moved into the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia.
As other Baptist moved into the valley area, they began to hold services in their home. In 1756, the Linville Creek Church was organized. They adopted the faith of the Baptist Assoc. at Philadelphia, in 1742. The original members were Rev. John Alderson and wife, Jane, Samuel and his wife, Martha, William Castleberry and wife Margaret with John Harrison. Samual Newman became the first deacon and the church clerk. The church later combined with Smith Creek Baptist Church and is now located in the area of New Market, Virginia.
In 1757, Samuel Newman wrote in the church minutes that there was some dissension among the members. He wrote: **About this time arose certain of the favorers of that Structureless Practice, infant sprinkling, and in a disorderly manner, called on Alexander Miller to their assistance, to go ridicule and slander our ministers, and our church officer, who at the time did officiate the office of deacon by churches appointment, which said Miller had before aspersed our Rev. Brother of being a Baptist. Accordingly, on Wednesday, the 21st of September, 1757, the said Miller and a rude assembly with him, in a disorderly manner, without leave, or previous notice given to the church, or persons by him accused, opened our meeting house, and assumed our pulpit, and there slanderously, falsely, and contrary to Christian Rule and Order (did) despitefully use our Minister and Brother, the Deacon, with opprobrious speeches, of spite and malice, entirely untruthful, and unknown to the said parties; and of which we are fully convinced, neither of them guilty of the error by him charged, neither in work, thought, or deed, which said irregular and disorderly practice of his, has since occasioned animosities in the neighborhood, and he, the said Miller, hath been thereby instrumental, in the hands of Satan, to disturb the churches peace, and the peach of the neighborhood, this being a time or noted peach with us in the mist of difficulties elsewhere.** The person that Samual was speaking of was Reverend Alexander Miller, a noted Presbyterian Minister of the area. Reverend Miller and some of his friends charged into the service of the Baptist Church one Sunday. Miller proceeded to the pulpit where he began to denounce the doctrine that was being taught at the church. The charges were leveled at Reverend John Anderson and Deacon SAMUEL NEWMAN. The "difficulties elsewhere" that Reverend Newman mentioned was the French and Indian war, which was at this time in progress. The next passage written by Reverend Newman reads as follows: **The Wednesday following this riotous action, it pleased God to permit the Heathen (Indians) to fall on our settlements and disordered the whole worse than they had done themselves, the week before. A just retaliation for such unheard of proceedings and measures they has to ??????. The aforesaid proceedings, together with the Indian troubles, Saturday in January, 1758: at which time the kind providence of God enabled us to regulate so many of the disorders that attended us as that which comfort and peace, we could proceed.....January, 1758...After this time the spring coming on, the Indian roubles continued, and all opportunities of meetings were taken from us: and not only so I but the whole neighborhood forced either to go into forts or over the mountains, to escape their rage, in the month of June following.*****
Samuel and Martha petitioned the Church for letter of dismissal stating they were moving to the Carolinas on April 20, 1765. They received a land grant of 450 acres and 150 acres on the spring branches of Bush River in Newberry County, South Carolina.
Worship services were held in his home until a meeting house could be built. The Reverend Samuel NEWMAN was the first pastor of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry County. The church was built on land he donated and still stands today listed in the Newberry County as a historical landmark.
He was willed 350 acres of land in Richmond & Wilkes County, Georgia. He served in American Revolution. He joined Long Creek Baptist Church near Warrenton (Warren County) Georgia in 1786.
It is believed that The Reverend Samuel Newman and his wife Mary are buried in the cemetery at Bush River Baptist Church and that their grave markers no longer exist.
"In the Name of God Amen the twenfth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy One, I Samuel Newman of Craven County and province of South Carolina being much desposed by reason of some inward ailment by which I find a decay of natural strength but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God for his Mercy. Therefore waving the nominal parts usual in wills hoping and expecting the fulfilling of Gods promises to soul and body I commit them into his hand and in the next place order and dispose of what in this life he hath given me. First I order that all my just debts and funeral costs be paid and adjusted. In the next place I give unto my Eldest son Samuel Newman three hundred and fifty acres of land in the province of Georgia which I have ordered to be deeded in his name to him and his heirs and assigns forever. I give him also my saddle and bridle and blue riding coat and he is entirely hereby from any further right or claim to any more of my estate real or personal, and further in the next place, I order that my Executrix here after named sign acknowledge and deliver unto Phillp Pheagans a deed for seventy five acres of land as it is laid out for him by John Coldwell. The said Fegans first paying the purchase agreed to with three cows and calves worth twelve pounds ten shillings each and he is for his abusive tongue and for striking of me and from time to time to wound my character he and his is hereby deprived of any other demand or legacy of my estate real or personal, and likewise John Johnson for his undutifulness, he and his wife and issue is debarred from any legacy of my estate real or personal, and I hereby give unto my youngest son John Newman five hundred and twenty five acres of land with its patents, whereon I now give to him and his heirs and assigns forever to bee freely and fully posessed and enjoyed by him after his mothers decease or marriage in which time she shall enjoy the same without interruption. I give him likewise the utensils of husbandry to cany on the farm after his Mothers decease. I give him the stone colt for a riding, My watch and cloaths not before bequeathed, and also my square barrel gunn with two parts of all other my moveable estate, which shall continue in the care of his mother during her life or widowhood. I order that my grand daughter Phebe Bartran at her marriage have a cow land calf given her out of my estate and that she afterwards have an equal share with my daughters Uriah Gary and Mary Crow after the decease of their Mother. My son John then having two shares and they each one of them one I order that the go not to the cost of administmtion but each one chose a man honestly reported for themselves to make such division, My Son taking first his two parts and the rest according to their seniority, and I appoint my well beloved wife Martha Newman my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament ordering that this my last will be fulfilled without fraud or variation and I do hereby give two acres of land where the meeting house now stand for the use to the Separate Baptiste as long as they will repair the same for ever, and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all & every other and former testaments -- wills legacies & executors by me in any wise before this time named ratifying this and no other to be my only last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year first above written. signed sealed published pronounced .... Geo. Ray Wm. Stewart, Mary Ray, Samuel Newman (Seal)." (This will was probated after 1778 and is contained in Newberry Wills Volume 1, 1776 - 1814, Section D, page 95, Executrix Martha Newman, Box # 357, Estate 44.) (NOTE: In the handwritten version of this will, the date could be read as 1771 or 1779. A Bush River Baptist Church Record lists the name of the second pastor of that church. He became acting pastor in 1771, possibly because of the sudden death of Rev. Samuel Newman.)
Even though their marriage cannot be verified, Samual and Martha were baptized on 12 July 1740 in Mongomery Baptist Church, Colmar, Pennsylvania.
Samuel and his wife lived in Pennsylvania until around 1744 when they moved into the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia.
As other Baptist moved into the valley area, they began to hold services in their home. In 1756, the Linville Creek Church was organized. They adopted the faith of the Baptist Assoc. at Philadelphia, in 1742. The original members were Rev. John Alderson and wife, Jane, Samuel and his wife, Martha, William Castleberry and wife Margaret with John Harrison. Samual Newman became the first deacon and the church clerk. The church later combined with Smith Creek Baptist Church and is now located in the area of New Market, Virginia.
In 1757, Samuel Newman wrote in the church minutes that there was some dissension among the members. He wrote: **About this time arose certain of the favorers of that Structureless Practice, infant sprinkling, and in a disorderly manner, called on Alexander Miller to their assistance, to go ridicule and slander our ministers, and our church officer, who at the time did officiate the office of deacon by churches appointment, which said Miller had before aspersed our Rev. Brother of being a Baptist. Accordingly, on Wednesday, the 21st of September, 1757, the said Miller and a rude assembly with him, in a disorderly manner, without leave, or previous notice given to the church, or persons by him accused, opened our meeting house, and assumed our pulpit, and there slanderously, falsely, and contrary to Christian Rule and Order (did) despitefully use our Minister and Brother, the Deacon, with opprobrious speeches, of spite and malice, entirely untruthful, and unknown to the said parties; and of which we are fully convinced, neither of them guilty of the error by him charged, neither in work, thought, or deed, which said irregular and disorderly practice of his, has since occasioned animosities in the neighborhood, and he, the said Miller, hath been thereby instrumental, in the hands of Satan, to disturb the churches peace, and the peach of the neighborhood, this being a time or noted peach with us in the mist of difficulties elsewhere.** The person that Samual was speaking of was Reverend Alexander Miller, a noted Presbyterian Minister of the area. Reverend Miller and some of his friends charged into the service of the Baptist Church one Sunday. Miller proceeded to the pulpit where he began to denounce the doctrine that was being taught at the church. The charges were leveled at Reverend John Anderson and Deacon SAMUEL NEWMAN. The "difficulties elsewhere" that Reverend Newman mentioned was the French and Indian war, which was at this time in progress. The next passage written by Reverend Newman reads as follows: **The Wednesday following this riotous action, it pleased God to permit the Heathen (Indians) to fall on our settlements and disordered the whole worse than they had done themselves, the week before. A just retaliation for such unheard of proceedings and measures they has to ??????. The aforesaid proceedings, together with the Indian troubles, Saturday in January, 1758: at which time the kind providence of God enabled us to regulate so many of the disorders that attended us as that which comfort and peace, we could proceed.....January, 1758...After this time the spring coming on, the Indian roubles continued, and all opportunities of meetings were taken from us: and not only so I but the whole neighborhood forced either to go into forts or over the mountains, to escape their rage, in the month of June following.*****
Samuel and Martha petitioned the Church for letter of dismissal stating they were moving to the Carolinas on April 20, 1765. They received a land grant of 450 acres and 150 acres on the spring branches of Bush River in Newberry County, South Carolina.
Worship services were held in his home until a meeting house could be built. The Reverend Samuel NEWMAN was the first pastor of Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry County. The church was built on land he donated and still stands today listed in the Newberry County as a historical landmark.
He was willed 350 acres of land in Richmond & Wilkes County, Georgia. He served in American Revolution. He joined Long Creek Baptist Church near Warrenton (Warren County) Georgia in 1786.
It is believed that The Reverend Samuel Newman and his wife Mary are buried in the cemetery at Bush River Baptist Church and that their grave markers no longer exist.
"In the Name of God Amen the twenfth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy One, I Samuel Newman of Craven County and province of South Carolina being much desposed by reason of some inward ailment by which I find a decay of natural strength but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God for his Mercy. Therefore waving the nominal parts usual in wills hoping and expecting the fulfilling of Gods promises to soul and body I commit them into his hand and in the next place order and dispose of what in this life he hath given me. First I order that all my just debts and funeral costs be paid and adjusted. In the next place I give unto my Eldest son Samuel Newman three hundred and fifty acres of land in the province of Georgia which I have ordered to be deeded in his name to him and his heirs and assigns forever. I give him also my saddle and bridle and blue riding coat and he is entirely hereby from any further right or claim to any more of my estate real or personal, and further in the next place, I order that my Executrix here after named sign acknowledge and deliver unto Phillp Pheagans a deed for seventy five acres of land as it is laid out for him by John Coldwell. The said Fegans first paying the purchase agreed to with three cows and calves worth twelve pounds ten shillings each and he is for his abusive tongue and for striking of me and from time to time to wound my character he and his is hereby deprived of any other demand or legacy of my estate real or personal, and likewise John Johnson for his undutifulness, he and his wife and issue is debarred from any legacy of my estate real or personal, and I hereby give unto my youngest son John Newman five hundred and twenty five acres of land with its patents, whereon I now give to him and his heirs and assigns forever to bee freely and fully posessed and enjoyed by him after his mothers decease or marriage in which time she shall enjoy the same without interruption. I give him likewise the utensils of husbandry to cany on the farm after his Mothers decease. I give him the stone colt for a riding, My watch and cloaths not before bequeathed, and also my square barrel gunn with two parts of all other my moveable estate, which shall continue in the care of his mother during her life or widowhood. I order that my grand daughter Phebe Bartran at her marriage have a cow land calf given her out of my estate and that she afterwards have an equal share with my daughters Uriah Gary and Mary Crow after the decease of their Mother. My son John then having two shares and they each one of them one I order that the go not to the cost of administmtion but each one chose a man honestly reported for themselves to make such division, My Son taking first his two parts and the rest according to their seniority, and I appoint my well beloved wife Martha Newman my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament ordering that this my last will be fulfilled without fraud or variation and I do hereby give two acres of land where the meeting house now stand for the use to the Separate Baptiste as long as they will repair the same for ever, and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all & every other and former testaments -- wills legacies & executors by me in any wise before this time named ratifying this and no other to be my only last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year first above written. signed sealed published pronounced .... Geo. Ray Wm. Stewart, Mary Ray, Samuel Newman (Seal)." (This will was probated after 1778 and is contained in Newberry Wills Volume 1, 1776 - 1814, Section D, page 95, Executrix Martha Newman, Box # 357, Estate 44.) (NOTE: In the handwritten version of this will, the date could be read as 1771 or 1779. A Bush River Baptist Church Record lists the name of the second pastor of that church. He became acting pastor in 1771, possibly because of the sudden death of Rev. Samuel Newman.)
Events
| Birth | March 15, 1713 | Cecil County, Maryland | |||
| Marriage | Bef 1738 | Maryland - Martha Johnson | |||
| Death | March 7, 1779 | Newberry County, South Carolina |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Johnson (1714 - ) |
| Child | Uriah Newman (1738 - 1796) |
| Child | Martha Newman (1739 - 1795) |
| Child | Samuel Newman (1741 - 1795) |
| Child | Newman ( - ) |
| Child | Mary Newman (1847 - ) |
| Child | John Newman (1749 - 1787) |
| Child | Jane Newman (1851 - ) |
| Father | Walter Newman (1665 - 1729) |
| Mother | Mary Catherine Brooks (1670 - 1716) |
| Sibling | John Newman (1688 - 1722) |
| Sibling | Mary Newman (1690 - ) |
| Sibling | Rachel Newman (1792 - ) |
| Sibling | Martha Newman (1794 - ) |
| Sibling | Walter Newman Jr. (1696 - 1774) |
| Sibling | Sarah Newman (1698 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Newman (1700 - ) |
| Sibling | William Newman (1702 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Newman (1704 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Newman (1707 - ) |
| Sibling | Katherine Newman (1709 - ) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Newman (1711 - 1714) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Newman (1716 - 1748) |