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 private perons, with impunity, & in open defiance of the Laws.

Mr Maon, at my requet, searching into ome old Town chets, at length met with a few vellum leaves, being the parih regiter from anno 1571 to 1642 incluive; the very year Sr. Iaac was born. but there is intermitted, not lot, from anno 1630 to 1640 incluive. which is a space of time in which his fathers marriage happen'd, & probably other circumtances in his family, or among his relations, which wd.would [sic] have asited us in our preent inquiry. however very luckily upon the lat leaf, which has been mierably abud, is this memorable account, under the title baptiz'd anno 1642.

Iaac sonne of Iaac & Hanna Newton jan 1.

tis probable, that the civil wars then beginning, was the reaon, why it ends in this leaf. from thoe leaves I extracted all of the name of Newton, whwhich [sic] are numerous. but for the reason aforemention'd, of being generally bare names only, without mention of fathers, mothers, huband, wife, & the like, they were of no great ervice in drawing out his genealogy, as was my purpoe to doe.