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4 Jan, 1643

Isaac Newton born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England

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Newton is born in Wollsthorpe-by-Colsterworth to a farmer by the name of Isaac Newton Sr. and Hannah Ayscough. His father dies three months before his birth. When Newton is three, his mother remarries and goes to live with her new husband, the Reverend Smith, she leaves her son in the care of his maternal grandmother. Newton is unhappy with the arrangement.

[I engage in] threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them

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