Robert Newman (sexton)
Robert John Newman
American
Lineage
- Mother Mary Newman Gibbs
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1752/03/20 | Mary Thomas, wife of Thomas Newman, Robert Newman is born in Boston. | Born | |||||
| 1772/00/00 | Robert Newman becomes sexton of Christ Church. He owns Pews 50 and 78. His brother is the organist at the Old North Church, and his cousin, Isaiah Thomas, is a Boston printer. | Faith | Old North Church | Boston | |||
| 1772/00/00 | Rebecca Knox marries Robert Newman in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. | Groom | |||||
| 1775/04/00 | Newman lives at home with his mother in a house where she also rents room to British officers. | Sexton | The Midnight Ride | ||||
| 1775/04/18 | Newman pretends to retire to his chamber to go to sleep, but instead he sneaks out of his house and meets up with Old North vestryman Capt John Pulling Jr and Thomas Bernard, at the Old North Church. | Sexton | Old North Church | Boston | The Midnight Ride | ||
| 1775/04/18 | Robert Newman hangs two lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church. | Sexton | Old North Church | Boston | The Midnight Ride | ||
| 1775/04/19 | Since he is one of few people with a set of keys to Old North, British troops arrest Robert Newman. He is later released after he tells them that he had lent the keys to Capt Pulling. Pulling had fled Boston. | Sexton | The Midnight Ride | ||||
| 1782/04/19 | Robert Newman sells a lantern to Capt Daniel Brown for an undisclosed amount of money, claiming that it was the sole remaining lantern of the original two that were displayed in 1775. The lantern is on display at the Concord Museum. | Life | |||||
| 1804/05/26 | Robert Newman commits suicide. He is buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston. | Died | Copp's Hill Burial Ground | Boston |
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