Jason H. T. Newell (1816-1901) |
Cousin Jason H. T. Newell (1C5R) was born in 1816 to
my Aunt Betsy Wheeler
and her husband Joseph Carter of Hillsborough. Joseph died
at sea while Jason was still a baby and was buried on the
shores of South Carolina. Betsy’s sister, my Aunt
Abigail Wheeler and her husband Simon Hartwell II
then adopted Jason. Even before Jason reached his majority
(at age 13), for reasons about which we can only speculate,
he chose to be neither a Carter nor entirely a Hartwell but
“Jason Hartwell Theodore Newell,” a combination
which, as far as we can tell, he made up. An act
1 of the New Hampshire legislature made the
change official on 3 July 1830.
That’s all the family history tells us about Jason. Nor does it suggest where Bets(e)y got the “T” on her tombstone. It does have a bit more to say about Abigail: “…Simon’s wife Abigail was familiarly known as “Aunt Nabby” noted for her sharp tongue but her ready charity.... Simon and Abigail had no children of their own, but successively adopted Jason H. T. Newell, Eliza Carr and Isaac Wilkins.”2 |
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