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Joseph Newlin (1797-1865) and Ruth Farlow Newlin (1801-1874) were my first-born great3-grandparents and lived in Alamance Co. and Randolph Co., NC. Joseph led an interesting life as a prominent Quaker investor, businessman, trustee of New Garden Boarding School which later became Guilford College at Greensboro, NC, tavernkeeper, tinsmith, and postmaster on the old Fayetteville to Salem Plank Road that is now U.S. Highway 311. In 1852 he made a journey to Quaker meetings from North Carolina all the way to Maine, recording his travels via train, horseback, and boat in 2 journals which are an important primary source in Quaker history and for the Newlin family, for he passed through his ancestral territory in Pennsylvania on his way to New England. This is a scan of page 525 of Dr. Algie I. Newlin's 1965 genealogy, "The Newlin Family: Ancestors and Descendants of John and Mary Pyle Newlin," this page being a biography of Joseph and Ruth with small pictures or portraits of them at the bottom. I would like to know where Dr. Newlin obtained these pictures or whether he or his brother Harvey made copies and where they or the originals might be, for I am interested in having copies made. Dr. Newlin transcribed Joseph's journal shortly before his death in 1985 at age 89. My maternal grandmother's second cousins, children of Joseph's granddaughter Hessie Newlin Davis (1891-1979) of Sophia, NC, who inherited many heirlooms, did not recall where these pictures came from and whether these were in their family, but they shared everything they had as of 1996 with me and insisted I keep some photographs and letters, including an original photograph of Joseph's father, Nathaniel Newlin (1768-1867), who settled in Bloomingdale, IN in 1826 with 9 of his 10 children, Joseph being the only one who remained in North Carolina. A cellarette from the Joseph Newlin tavern is on display in the Reading Room of Guilford College's Friends Historical Collection.
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