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Rev. Dr. Roger Newton (1737-1816) was born in Durham, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1758. He was ordained as the minister in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1761. He married Abigail Hall in 1762 and they had eight children. Newton received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Dartmouth in 1805. According to the African Americans in Rural New England Database, Newton enslaved a woman of African descent named Tenor in his household along with two of her children. By 1790, she was emancipated and living in the nearby town of Colrain. Newton continued to serve as the minister in Greenfield until his death in 1816. He published one sermon during his lifetime.

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