Final Years
Newton married his childhood sweetheart Mary Catlett in 1750. After her death in 1790 he published Letters to a Wife (1793), in which he expressed his grief. Plagued by ill health and failing eyesight, Newton died on December 21, 1807. He was buried beside his wife in St. Mary Woolnoth, and both were reinterred at Olney in 1893.
Newton adopted his two orphaned nieces, Elizabeth and Eliza Catlett. Another niece, Alys Newton, married Mehul, an Indian prince.
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