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<p>Luther Newton, described by ethnologist Frank G, Speck as a “one of the more prominent men” of the Patawomeck Tribe, posed for Speck in 1920 during his research into the Powhatan Tribes in Virginia. He told Speck a perhaps tongue in cheek story about the origin of the common Patawomeck surname “Newton,” in which a miscreant son of Isaac Newton came to America and married a Patawomeck woman. Newton also carried on the traditional Patawomeck practice of basket weaving. </p>
