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Roger Newberry (June 30, 1735 – February 13, 1814)[1] was a general in the American Revolutionary War and later a judge and legislator in Connecticut.[2]
Early life, education, and career[edit]
Born to Captain Roger and Elizabeth Wolcott Newberry at the family estate in Windsor, Connecticut,[1] Newberry's maternal grandfather was royal governor Roger Wolcott.
He was a grantee of a deed in the Connecticut Land Company.
General Roger Newberry, son of Captain Roger, received his commission as lieutenant in 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 interests. He located his land at the falls of the Cuyahoga river, and founded the town since known as Cuyahoga Falls. [3]
After completing his education, Roger entered the king's service as a lieutenant. In June 1774, he attained the rank of captain. Nevertheless, Roger, who had become a lawyer and a prosperous merchant, abandoned his sentiments for the king's service and became one of Connecticut's prominent Patriots when war became imminent.[1]
1st Regiment of Horse and Foot. That same year, on 16 July, Roger's mother died. His father died while on a military operation when he became ill aboard ship en route to Jamaica during 1741. In late May 1777, Major Newberry was promoted to the rank of colonel of the regiment. General Newberry participated in the campaigns in and around New York during 1776, and he remained in active service for the duration of the war.[1]
Newberry served as a Connecticut probate judge in 1783, and in the Connecticut Senate from 1790 to 1809.[1]
In 1785 General Newberry was appointed by Governor Samuel Huntington to a commission charged with settling some boundary disputes with representatives of Massachusetts. Also, General Newberry received an honorary Master's Degree from Yale during 1793. About two years later, during 1795, General Newberry became one of the proprietors [of the] Connecticut Land Company.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Bud Hannings, American Revolutionary War Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary (2009), p. 316.
- ^ Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the state of Connecticut. Hudson and Goodwin. p. vii.
- ^ Charles Abiathar White, Biographical Memoir of John Strong Newberry, 1822-1892 (1906), p. 4.
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