Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for John Newton across 5 places, from 1725 to 1807.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
John Newton (– 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place John Newton is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where John Newton was documented, and when
4 August 1725exact date
Wappingattested“John Newton was born in Wapping, London, on 4 August 1725, the son of John Newton the Elder, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth (née Scatliff).”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
4 August 1725exact date
Mediterraneanattested“John Newton was born in Wapping, London, on 4 August 1725, the son of John Newton the Elder, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth (née Scatliff).”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1748year
Englandattested“In 1748, during his return voyage to England aboard the ship Greyhound, Newton had a Christian conversion.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1750 to 1753period
Englandattested“After his return to England in 1750, Newton made three voyages as captain of the slave ships Duke of Argyle (1750) and African (1752–53 and 1753–54).”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1787year
City of Londonattested“After Newton moved to the City of London as rector of St Mary Woolnoth Church, he contributed to the work of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, formed in 1787.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
21 December 1807exact date
Londonattested“Plagued by ill health and failing eyesight, Newton died on 21 December 1807 in London; he was 82 years old.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
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1745year
West Africamentioned“In 1745, they left him in West Africa with Amos Clowe, a slave dealer.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1748year
West Africamentioned“Newton later recounted this period as the time he was "once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in West Africa." Early in 1748, Newton was rescued by a sea captain who had been asked by Newton's father to search for him, and re…”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1748 to 1764period
Liverpoolmentioned“In 1764, Newton wrote: "I cannot consider myself to have been a believer in the full sense of the word, until a considerable time afterwards." Newton returned in 1748 to Liverpool, a major port for the Triangular Trade.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
1767year
Olney, Buckinghamshirementioned“In 1767, William Cowper, the poet, moved to Olney.”source: Wikipedia: John Newton
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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