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His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months
before.
Born prematurely, Newton was a small child; his mother
Hannah Ayscough reportedly said that he could have fit inside
a quart mug.
When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live
with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving
her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery
Ayscough.
Newton disliked his stepfather and maintained some enmity
towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry
in a list of sins committed up to the age of 19