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our ancestor. Capt. and Major Benjamin, 2d, seems to have succeeded 

 to his father's position as chief of the military forces of the Colony. 

 His son, Capt. Roger, married Elizabeth Wolcott, daughter of Roger 

 Wolcott, Governor [of Connecticut. Capt. Roger graduated at Yale 

 College in 1726, was a Deputy to the General Court for eleven (11) 

 sessions. In 1740 he coraman'led a companj' from Connecticut in the 

 expedition against the Spanish Main, and was present at the repulse of 

 Admiral Vernon at Carthagena in April, 1741. He died on the voyage 

 home. 



General Roger Newberry, son of Captain Roger, received his commis- 

 sion as Lieutenant of the Colonial forces in 1767. He was commissioned 

 as Major in 1775, the commission being signed by Jonathan Trumbull, 

 Governor, and George Willys, Secretary, of "His Majesty's Colony of 

 Connecticut." In 1777 he received a commission as Colonel, signed also 

 by Jonathan Trumbull, Governor, and George Willys, Secretary, " of the 

 State of Conned icut.'' In 1781 he was commissioned as Brigadier-General, 

 and in 1783, after the peace, as Judge of Probate. He was one of the 

 proprietors of the Connecticut Land Company, who purchased from the 

 State of Connecticut the northern ' counties of Ohio known as the 

 "Western Reserve." 



Henry Newberry, son of General Roger, went to Ohio in 1824 to look 

 after his father's landed interest. He located his land at the falls of the 

 Cuyahoga River, and founded the town since known as Cuyahoga Falls. 

 Upon his property was mined the first coal known to have been offered 

 for sale in Ohio. 



My father, John Strong Newberry, was the younger of his two (2) 

 sons. Mr. Henry R. Stiles, of Hill View, Lake George, Warren County, 

 New York, in his book the " History of Ancient Windsor," gives a quite 

 full account of the Newberry family, A new edition of this work is now 

 in press. 



I trust the foregoing will be what you need. 



Y'ours truly, 



A. ST. J. NEWBERRY. 



NO. II. 



Letter from E. Btjshkell, a college classmate, regarding- Dr. 



Newberry's college days. 



Cleveland, O., March 15, 1893. 

 Prof. II. L. Fairchikl 



My dear Sir— I never heard Dr. Newberry speak much of his 

 childhood and youth. The impressions made on my mind by what I did 

 hear from himself and others, are something like the following : 



He was born in Windsor, Conn., and his father was a man of means. 



