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From Elizabeth Stanley Newton Lusson's Daughters of the AmericanRevolution Application:

". . . and he, the said Thomas Newton is the ancestor who assisted inestablishing American Independence, while acting in teh capacity of Colonel of Norfolk Co. Member of Constitutional Virgnia Convention 1776.First Home Delegate, April 1, 1771. Sons of Liberty, March 30, 1776. Committe Safety, July 14, 1775. Commissioner of Admiralty, July 5, 1776."
"His son, Colonel Thomas Newton of Norfolk, Virginia, born 1768, ded 1847, was Colonel of the forces gathered for the defence of Norfolk during the War of 1812. He was three times elected toCongress; he was an eminent lawyer, a politician of note, a man of greatability and popularity - the friend and advisor of all the noted men ofhis day."
"His son, Major W. I. Newton, 2nd Dragoons, U.S.A. was one of the three young officers selected from the Regular Army to be sent to Saumer, France, to learn the Cavalry Tactics. He served onthe staff of General Armistead in the Seminole War, also served through the Mexican War, and was one of the few officers to enter the City of Mexico, and became a member of the Aztec Club, there formed. He remained in the Union Army during the Civil War.