In 1995 I began researching my Newberry family line because I was interested in learning about
the tribal roots purported to exist. The search began under the pretext of wishing to know more
about a woman, a necklace, and a culture. What I found was more than I bargained for and not
what I expected.
I learned of a whole family whose saga began in Connecticut. They migrated like birds across this
great country moving in intervals of decades, through two centuries. Their reasons are unclear; but
as with all the eras of our country's history, it appears they were enfolded in the spirit of manifest
destiny, having given up on the agrarian, woodland lifestyle of their forbearers either through force
or personal desire.
If there is documentation to prove their ethnicity, it is gone with the sands of time. Persecution and
shame of their native roots reduced the proof to innuendo, family lore, and photos of people whose
ethnicity echoes in their features. Their forbearers are shown in a genealogical table of family members
who have connected them to the Puritans, Baptists and in my line, the Mormons. Somewhere along
the way a Native woman bore a child who carried the precious Native American story to us in the
present.
My search began with my Great Great Grandmother Hannah Maria Newberry, daughter of James
and Mary Smith Newberry of Warwick, N.Y. Where it ends is anyone's guess. I invite you on a
journey into the past beginning with a woman and her necklace.
Short list of Allied Families
Blackman/Benedict/Burch/Holley/
Morris/Newberry/Smith/Stephens/
Rose / Dodge/ Haskins/
Wixon / Smith/ Stephens/Beebe/Hyatt
check the genealogical
table for addition surnames.
Scroll past bulletin board for site outline.
Bulletin
Board
Traffic on this site has
picked up in recent months. If you are a Newberry or Morris cousin,
please be aware there are other private sites for these two families which
are by invitation only.
We would be especially pleased to have some new membership in
both. If you are interested in
participation, please email me for further information. I am
especially interested in connecting
with cousins who are affiliated with the colonial Newberry family in New
York, Connecticut,
and Pennsylvania. Click on the link at the bottom of the page which
says, "say hello" to contact me.
The
Real Beginnings of Thanksgiving
Because some of the
people in my collateral family lines, and perhaps even early main lines
were
thought to have been descended from the Wampanoag Tribe, I have dedicated
a page to this
history written by Roy Cook. He has generously granted me permission
to use his article and
link to the American Indian Source web site. His article provides
some compelling history in
a nutshell, which I am sure you will find fascinating. It is a
history that is appropriate and
provides a better understanding of European and Native history in early
times.
Thanksgiving Revisited - a Day of
Mourning
CONTENTS/
site map
To get the most from the
website it is suggested that you follow numbered topics chronologically.
I. Beginning
Research on Hannah Maria born March 13, 1823
Necklace
Genealogical
table of Newberry's covered on this site.
Native
people in the LDS Church Tribal names and affiliations
II. Newberry
family in Connecticut circa 1740 John Newberry ( I ) born August
16, 1710 Groton, Connecticut
Exodus
to New York from Connecticut
John
Newberry ( II ) born September 3, 1746 Connecticut or Duchess
County, N.Y. (modern Patterson)
The Revolution
Jonathan Newberry Bible
Brother of John Newberry ( II )
Old
School Baptist Church First Baptist Parish west of the Hudson
River established 1762 by James Benedict
Samuel Smith family and Samuel
Smith Farm
NEW!!!
Native
people in New England Tribal names and
affiliations - studies in descendant surnames
NEW - September 2006
Newberry Homestead in Warwick, N.Y.
Home built circa 1773
Follow the James Newberry
family across America
III.
1. James
Newberry son of John ( II ) father of Hannah Maria marries Mary
Smith daughter of Samuel Smith
and Jane Stephens Aug. 24, 1811 starts migration to Ohio via Pennsylvania.
2.
Missouri Period with the Mormons
Joins Joseph Smith 1831 and moves to Jackson Co. MO.
Half Breed Tract
in Lee Co. Iowa ca. 1838
3. Illinois
Period before death of Joseph Smith 1839-44
4.
Nauvoo collapses
Power struggle to 1846
Dissident factions create friction
Family politics among the larger factions
Exodus to Utah - James remains in Iowa
5.
Flight to Southwest Iowa
Staging area for the Great Basin and west.
Cutlerites
6. Death
of James Newberry July 10, 1880 Buried in the Old Mormon Cemetery,
Grove Township, Iowa.
7.
Wives and
Families of James Newberry summarized
NEW!!! Iowa
Family Album pages
Photo
Comparison - James and James and Abraham.
Hannah and George Follow
Brigham Young - while oldest siblings stay behind in Iowa
IV. Exodus
to Utah for George and Hannah
Hannah Maria Newberry perils of Utah
Hannah's
Children
The Morrisites
Problems
in the Colonial Newberry Genealogy - New August 2006
V. The
Newberry Genealogy before 1710 may be compromised.
All pages
Stage 1 /Connecticut
/ New York / More
Newberry's in New York / Samuel Smith
/ Smith Farm / Revolution
/Old School Baptists /
Native people in New England / Stage
2 / Ohio / Missouri
/ Illinois & Iowa / Nauvoo
/ Flight to SW Iowa / The
Half Breed Tract /
Cutlerite membership / dissidence
in Nauvoo / Death
of James Newberry / Wives
and Family / Children who
Went west /Stage 3 /
Exodus to Utah / Utah / Morrisites
/ Hannah's Children / Hannah's
Necklace / genealogy table / Addenda
/Newberry Brick Walls /
Whispers - beginning the search / Bibliography
/ Family Album / Jonathan
Newberry Bible /
NEW!!!
I
have recently published a book about the Newberry Family - click here for
details.
the quiet patriarch, the life of James Abram
Newberry, Native American Pioneer.
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Sue Simonich 2005
