tables and Isaac Watts' catechisms for the young. She succumbed to tuberculosis when Newton was only seven, thus bringing an end to that positive influence.
Captain Newton quickly remarried and sent his son to live with his stepmother in Essex while he left for sea. With his father gone and his stepmother unconcerned, Newton was primarily left to raise himself. He was sent to a private school on the Essex-Middlesex border, but the headmaster was a strict disciplinarian fond of using the
