Sir Isaac Newton
Is there any truth in this???
There is a family legend that Sir Isaac Newton, the noted physicist and mathematician,(1642-1727) was an ancestor of the West family.Newton never married, but apparently was not celibate.Dorothy was the granddaughter of the maid who became pregnant with Sir Isaac Newton's child.To save the family from embarrassment, the maid was sent to live in America.
The Mitchell family owned 360 acres of land adjoining the West family who owned 640 acres of land in Beaufort Co., NC granted by Lord Cranville - the Mitchells in 1755 and the Wests in 1754.
Dorothy had golden hair, blue eyes, a fair complexion, a forceful personality, average intelligence, pretty features, good health, and was a lover of flowers.Her brother, Daniel West, came to TN and in his later life became unbalanced and lived in a hollow tree for a number of years where he died.
Dorothy West was born 1771 in Craven Co., NC and died July 1853 in Mitchell Hollow, Cannon Co., TN.She married Stephen Alexander Mitchell about 1790 in Halifax Co., NC.He was the son of William Mitchell and Elizabeth Curry.
Children of DOROTHY WEST and STEPHEN MITCHELL are:
i. JAMES E. MITCHELL, b. December 1791, NC; d. 1855, Cannon Co., TN.
ii. MINERVA MITCHELL, b. Abt. 1795, NC; m. (1) JAMES HOLT; m. (2) JAMES HOLT.
iii. NANCY MITCHELL, b. Abt. 1797, NC; d. Tyler, TX; m. JOHN ELAM.
iv. JOHN NEWTON MITCHELL, b. March 24, 1804, Buncombe Co., NC; d. January 01, 1889, Cannon Co., TN; m. (1) SARAH SALLIE HUTCHINSON, September 09, 1823, Cannon Co., TN; m. (2) MARY RIGSBY, December 22, 1871, Cannon Co., TN.
v. ELIZABETH MITCHELL, b. November 27, 1805, NC; d. April 16, 1898, Ripley, Tippah Co., MS; m. JOHN FRYAR, Abt. 1821, TN.
vi. STEPHEN AMZIAH MITCHELL, b. 1806, NC; d. Aft. 1850, AR; m. NANCY FINLEY, October 28, 1829, Rutherford Co., TN.
vii. MEMNON A. MITCHELL, b. 1811, Cannon Co., TN; d. Robertson Co., TX; m. MARTHA HARLAN, 1839.
viii. DOROTHY MITCHELL, b. 1815, Cannon Co., TN; d. November 03, 1891, Hollis Creek, Woodbury, Cannon Co., TN; m. NATHANIEL FINLEY, June 1831, TN.
ix. DANIEL WEST MITCHELL, b. February 21, 1818, Mitchell Hollow, Woodbury, Cannon Co., TN; d. December 07, 1889, Woodbury, Cannon Co., TN; m. (1) ELEANOR L. MCGLOCKLIN, June 18, 1840, Cannon Co., TN; m. (2) MARTHA A. SMITHSON, August 26, 1871, Cannon Co., TN.