On his first leg out and sick with a high fever, Newton acknowledged his faith in Christ, Making England, he later signed on as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow. He later described that night as the beginnings of his conversion when he saw God as his only hope. Sailing back to England aboard the Greyhound, he was sent to his knees in prayer during a storm that almost sank the ship. Who gave him to his wife as a servant where he was abused along with the rest of the slaves.Įarly in 1748, now twenty-three, he was rescued by a sea captain who had been asked by Newton's father to search for him. He continually proved to be more trouble than his worth and was left ashore in West Africa with a slave trader He became a midshipman aboard HMS Harwich and was flogged for trying to liberate himself.īeing disgraced and even contemplating suicide at one point, he was transferred to the slave ship Pegasus. While he was visiting friends, John was captured and “pressed” into the service by the Royal Navy at the age of eighteen. Though his father had other plans for him, John signed on to a merchant ship. When nine, he was sent to live with his father’s second wife but spent the next two years in boarding school.Īt the age of eleven, he went to sea with his father for six voyages before his father retired when John was seventeen. Those years, however short, were filled with the example of a good Christian mother’s love and teachings.
He was born of John Newton, Sr., a sea captain, and Elizabeth who died of tuberculosis when he So our short survey of his life must only point out the extremes of his mountain peaks and valley depths. Books have been written about the famous writer of Amazing Grace,
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