A Brief Overview of My Family History by Isaac Newton
Barnabas Smith
In January of 1664, just after my third birthday, my mother met a wealthy clergyman named Barnabas Smith, a minister of a church in the nearby village of North Witham. Barnabas Smith told my mother he would marry her under one condition, he didn't want a stepson. My mother decided to marry Barnabas Smith and went to live with her new husband, leaving me, Isaac Newton, her only child to be raised in the care of my maternal grandparents, Margery and James Ayscough in Grantham.
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