Newby, brother of Joseph F. and Thomas M. Newby, attended the University of North Carolina after leaving R-MC, graduating in 1852. He was a wealthy farmer in Perquimans County, NC and serving in the state legislature at the beginning of the war, serving in the House of Commons from 1858-1862. Newby was a secessionist and identified with the Oppositionist Party. In his August 28, 1865 application for a presidential pardon, Newby states that he "was an active sympathiser with the South, and during the last years of its existence sold from time to time considerable amounts of supplies to its army agents, but had never received or exercised any agency himself," failing to disclose his service in the state's Confederate legislature or that he had provided supplies as early as Nov. 1861. He received a presidential pardon on Feb. 1, 1866.
Newby continued to farm in Perquimans County, NC until his death on July 11, 1883. He is buried in Cedarwood Cemetery in Hertford, NC.
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