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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 commanded a company 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 Connecticut.’ 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 lh. 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. 
Yours truly, 
A. ST. J. NEWBERRY. 
NOss i: 
Letter from E, Busunett, a college classmate, regarding Dr, 
Newserry’s college days. 
CLEVELAND, O., March 15, 1893. 
Prof. H. L. Fairchild. 
My pvEAR SrtR—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, 
