"One thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds to Nathaniel Newgate, or Newdigate, now or late dwelling in Newport, in Rhode Island, son of Isabel Lewis, third sister of the said Sir John Lewis by her husband Nathaniel Newgate, or Newdigate."Mary Nichols in the 1740s or '50s.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89056360845&view=1up&seq=104&skin=2021&q1=newdigate
There are known living descendants of Newdigate Adams of Rhode Island and his wife Frances Low, as Frances Low is an accepted Mayflower Society ancestor:
http://www.fgs-project.com/rhodeisland/groups/a/adams-john-3.htm
See also: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mayflower_Descendant/iHdHAAAAYAAJ?q=%22elizabeth+westgate%22+adams&gbpv=1#f=false
I think this marriage record immediately below may pertain to another descendant of Nathaniel Newdigate of Rhode Island, as there is an IGI marriage record (1720s) for an Isabella Newdigate to William Risby.
"Capt John [Warner], Jr., [son] of Capt. John [Warner] and Isabella Risby, [daughter] of William [Risby], late of Newport; m. by Elder John Hammett, Apr. 16, 1747.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Vital_Record_of_Rhode_Island_Kent_county/kIZY1juvYPMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22isabella+risby%22+rhode&pg=PA124&printsec=frontcover
Isabel or Isabella Lewis being the name of the mother of Nathaniel Newdigate.
In addition, there was the marriage of Nathaniel and Sarah Newdigate's daughter Sarah to Captain Richard Mumford in the 1720s with the births of a number of children, including one Richard Mumford stated by an early Mumford genealogy to have married
The Newdigate Adams problem is very confusing. Julie Otto wrote (many years ago):it's not the sort of trendy name one feels the urge to use for no reason.) What does the will of Nathaniel Newdigate or his wife Sarah (Lynde) contribute? If these are absent, you might wish to examine the Newdigate deeds, as well as deeds of John Adams
"The use of the name 'Newdigate' is probably a good clue. My suspicion is that it may indeed be Elizabeth's maiden name since I don't see use of the name among the descendants of James [Jr.] and Elizabeth (Tiffany) Adams, nor among the Tiffanys. (And
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/tiffany/609/
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