| Home Surname List Name Index Sources GEDCOM File Email Us | John TOWNSEND 4 was born about 1642 in Lynn, , MA prob. He died on 14 December 1726 at the age of 84 in Lynn, , MA. !SOURCES: THE ESSEX GENEALOGIST vol 13 no 3 [Aug 1993 pub at Lynnfield MA] pp 159-162; LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS VITAL RECORDS; PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY, 3:321-323; THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, 12:25; ESSEX DEEDS, 3:173; 48:179; ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, "A Sketch of the Family of Thomas Townsend of Lynn," by Henry F Waters, p39; RECORDS AND FILES OF THE QUARTERLY COURTS OF ESSEX COUNTY, 4:207-8; MIDDLESEX DEEDS, 5:1; THE TOWNSHEND FAMILY OF LYNN IN OLD AND NEW ENGLAND, by Charles Hervey ESSEX PROBATE, 27932; 27940; Townsend, Rev 3rd ed [New Haven, CT; n.d.] p84; BIRTH: etc: John Townsend was a wheelright by trade, but at his death he was called husbandmen; in Nov 1669 his wife Sarah [Pearson] Townsend was involved in a witchcraft complaint at the county court; John joined the church at Reading in 1676, but in the record of deeds, he is always called "of Lynn"; Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND. John TOWNSEND was born about 1656 in Nassau, Long Island, New York. He died on 5 January 1720/1 at the age of 65 in Cape May Co., New Jersey. He was also known as Cape May John. John was in Whaler. He moved from Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York to Cape May, NewJersey about 1690 and became one of the Cape's first white men.Secured ‘Quaker Lease’ with local Indians (he paid fairly for his landand honored his lease.) During later Indian raids, all such holders ofQuaker Leases were left unmolested while those not without were often murdered in barbarous fashion Parents: . Spouse: Phoebe WILLIAMS. Children were: Richard TOWNSEND. John TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Samuel TOWNSEND and Elizabeth BUCKNAM. Spouse: Hannah HANCOCK. Children were: Sarah TOWNSEND, Hannah TOWNSEND 2, Samuel TOWNSEND 3, Aaron TOWNSEND 4, Phebe TOWNSEND 5, Sarah TOWNSEND 6, Nathan TOWNSEND 7, David TOWNSEND 8, Elizabeth TOWNSEND 9, Ebenezer TOWNSEND 10. Spouse: Phebe TEMPLE. Children were: John TOWNSEND 1. John TOWNSEND 1 was born on 19 February 1728/9 in , , MA prob. He was christened on 23 February 1728/9. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Phebe TEMPLE. Jonathan TOWNSEND 12 was born on 10 September 1668 in Rumney Marsh, , MA, [Boston VR]. He died on 11 April 1717/8 at the age of 49 in , , , of Lynn. !SOURCES: THE ESSEX GENEALOGIST vol 13 no 3 [Aug 1993 pub at Lynnfield MA] p159; vol 13 no 4 [Nov 1993] pp223-4; BOSTON VITAL RECORDS; TOWNSEND NEWSLETTER [Spring 1988], 5; DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHELSEA, Mellen Chamberlain [Boston, 1908] vol. 1; chapt. 7:307; ESSEX PROBATE, 27935; SAVAGE, 4:404-5 [a more complete citation not provided]; THE GENEALOGIES AND ESTATES OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, 1629-1818, Thomas Bellows Wyman [Somersworth, NH, 1982], 661; HISTORY OF SALEM, Sidney Perley [Salem, 1924], 298; RECORD OF SALEM PROBATE COURT, 16 Apr 1718 (admin. of Jonathan's estate); Parents: Samuel TOWNSEND and Abigail DAVIS. Joshua TOWNSEND was born about 1705. He has reference number CJNS-CQ. Spouse: Elizabeth WHITE. Children were: Joshua TOWNSEND. Joshua TOWNSEND was born on 23 July 1731 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He died in 1812 at the age of 81. He has reference number 44RD-SK. Parents: Joshua TOWNSEND and Elizabeth WHITE. Spouse: Susanna Whitcomb LIVERMORE. Susanna Whitcomb LIVERMORE and Joshua TOWNSEND were married on 21 December 1759. Children were: Elizabeth TOWNSEND, Susannah TOWNSEND, Sarah TOWNSEND, Joshua TOWNSEND, Abigail TOWNSEND, Elisha TOWNSEND. Joshua TOWNSEND was born on 9 September 1766 in Bolton, Worcester, MA. He died in 1812 at the age of 46. He has reference number 44RH-6V. Parents: Joshua TOWNSEND and Susanna Whitcomb LIVERMORE. Spouse: Betsy JONES. Leah TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Spouse: John WILLIAMS. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Spouse: Living LOOMIS. Children were: Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living LOOMIS. Spouse: Living ROZEMA. Children were: Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living ROZEMA. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living ROZEMA. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living ROZEMA. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living ROZEMA. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living LOOMIS. Spouse: Living ROZEMA. Children were: Living TOWNSEND, Living ROZEMA, Living ROZEMA. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living ROZEMA and Living TOWNSEND. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living LOOMIS. Spouse: Living SMITH. Children were: Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND, Living TOWNSEND. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living SMITH. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living SMITH. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living SMITH. Living TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Parents: Living TOWNSEND and Living LOOMIS. Mary Bedient TOWNSEND371 was born in 1620 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.371 She died in 1677 at the age of 57 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.371 Spouse: Richard OSBORN. Mary Bedient TOWNSEND and Richard OSBORN were married in 1639 in Westchester, Bronx, New York.371 Children were: Sarah OSBORN. Mrs. Elizabeth TOWNSEND was born about 1664 in , , , MA maybe. Spouse: Samuel TOWNSEND. Mrs. Mary TOWNSEND[xUpline] (private). Spouse: John TOWNSEND. Nathan TOWNSEND 7 was christened on 29 April 1744 in Charlestown, , MA prob, [bapt]. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Hannah HANCOCK. Nathaniel TOWNSEND was born about 1678 in Jerico, Nassau, NY. He was christened in (Died Young). He has Ancestral File Number GMH4-PH. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Susanna HARCOURT. Phebe TOWNSEND 5 was born on 24 October 1739 in Charlestown, , MA. She was christened on 28 October 1739. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Hannah HANCOCK. Rachel TOWNSEND was born on 29 June 1689 in , , NY. She has Ancestral File Number 9JBX-55. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Susanna HARCOURT. Spouse: Job WRIGHT. Rachel TOWNSEND and Job WRIGHT were married about 1709 in , , NY. Richard TOWNSEND was born in 1630 in Ipswich,Essex,Massachusetts. He died in 1670 at the age of 40 in Oyster Bay,Long Island,New York. He has Ancestral File Number 46XQ-5B. Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND and Mary NEWGATE. Spouse: Deliverance COLE. Deliverance COLE and Richard TOWNSEND were married in 1655 in Ipswich,Essex,Massachusetts. Richard TOWNSEND was born about 1635 in Lynn, Essex, Mass. He died in April 1670 at the age of 35. He has Ancestral File Number 93V5-73. Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND and Mary NEWGATE. Richard TOWNSEND was born on 7 February 1680/1 in Upper Twsp., Cape May Co., New Jersey. He died on 30 May 1737 at the age of 56 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was in High Sheriff. New Jersey Archives, Series 30, Abstracts of Wills II, 1730-1750,p.486: Richard Townsend of Cape May Co., yeoman-wife Millicent leaveshomestead (primo geniture) to eldest son, John, subject to certain rights and privileges of wife.Mentions younger sons, Samuel and Daniel, in certain bequests. Leaves son Richard, 200 acres;son Isaac, 200 acres; son Sylvanus, a farm; certain properties to son Jacob, a blacksmith;divers assets to daughter Hanna Gregory, and daughter, Millicent Townsend; leaves grist mill toJohn, Richard, Sylvanus and Isaac. Will proved 9/29/1737. Great Egg Harbor (NJ) Monthly Meeting was established in 1726 withRichard Townsend as the Robert TOWNSEND was born in 1512 in Ludlow, England. He died on 8 February 1556 at the age of 44. Spouse: Alice POPPY. Children were: Thomas TOWNSEND. Robert TOWNSEND was born about 1590 in , , , England prob. Parents: Henry TOWNSEND and Margaret FORTHE. Rose TOWNSEND was born about 1655 in Of, Hempstead, Nassau, New York. She died in 1689 at the age of 34. She has Ancestral File Number 9JBT-4K. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Elizabeth COLES. Spouse: John WICKES. Spouse: Samuel HAYDEN. Samuel TOWNSEND was born about 1573 in Of Tenterton, Kent, England, Great Britain. He has Ancestral File Number MFBV-C2. Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND and Mary NEWGATE. Samuel TOWNSEND was born in 1638 in Lynn, Essex, MA. He died on 21 December 1704 at the age of 66 in Chelsea, , Mass. He has Ancestral File Number 2XCM-QJ. Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND and Mary NEWGATE. Spouse: Abigail DAVIS. Abigail DAVIS and Samuel TOWNSEND were married on 21 December 1704. Samuel TOWNSEND was born in 1638 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. He died on 21 December 1704 at the age of 66 in Rumney Marsh, , MA, ChelseaMA?. He has reference number 2XCM-Q3. !SOURCES: THE ESSEX GENEALOGIST vol 13 no 3 [Aug 1993 pub at Lynnfield MA] pp 157-9; THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Charles Hervey Townsend, [1st ed 1875] pp 51, 52; 2:306; SUFFOLK PROBATE, 1763, 2910; ESSEX PROBATE, 27926; HISTORY OF CHELSEA, "Inscriptions of Gravestones in the Rumney Marsh Burying Ground," 2:709; 2:305, Chapt 14; THE GRAVEYARDS OF BOSTON; FIRST VOLUME, COPP'S HILL EPITAPHS, William H Whitmore [Albany, NY, 1878] pp 38, 67; HISTORY OF THE SECOND CHURCH OR OLD NORTH, IN BOSTON [1852] Chandler Robbins, p 282; THE RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 6:142; MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES, 36:61, 62; THE DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL [New York, 1973], 1:170; BIRTH: ETC: Samuel Townsend [b1638] was made a freeman at Boston 15 Apr 1690; Samuel [father or son] was constable and Town Surveyor; he was administrator of the estates of his son Jeremiah and his brother Andrew Townsend of Lynn; he was in all respects a successful man; at his death he owned property in Rumney Marsh, Charlestown and Boston; Parents: Thomas TOWNSEND. Spouse: Abigail DAVIS. Abigail DAVIS and Samuel TOWNSEND were married about 1659. Children were: Samuel TOWNSEND, Abigail TOWNSEND II, Jeremiah TOWNSEND III, David TOWNSEND IV, Jonathan TOWNSEND 12, Anna [or_Anne] TOWNSEND vi, Solomon TOWNSEND orJames&MaryLink, Elias TOWNSEND 14, Abraham [or_Abram] TOWNSEND 15, Isaac TOWNSEND 16. Samuel TOWNSEND was born on 11 July 1661 in RumneyMarshBostn, Suffolk, MA. He died before 30 December 1723 at the age of 62. AFN: !SOURCES: Spouse: Mrs. Elizabeth TOWNSEND. Spouse: Elizabeth MELLINS. Elizabeth MELLINS and Samuel TOWNSEND were married on 15 March 1693 in Charlestown, , MA. Children were: Samuel TOWNSEND I, Jeremiah TOWNSEND II, Abigail TOWNSEND III. Spouse: Elizabeth BUCKNAM. Elizabeth BUCKNAM and Samuel TOWNSEND were married on 7 April 1701 in Charlestown, , MA. Children were: John TOWNSEND, Anna TOWNSEND V, Solomon TOWNSEND vi, Unice TOWNSEND vii. Samuel TOWNSEND I was born on 15 January 1694/5 in Charlestown, , MA. Parents: Samuel TOWNSEND and Elizabeth MELLINS. Samuel TOWNSEND 3 was born on 20 November 1735 in Charlestown, , MA. He was christened on 23 November 1735. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Hannah HANCOCK. Sarah TOWNSEND 6 was christened on 28 February 1741/2 in Charlestown, , MA prob, [bapt]. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Hannah HANCOCK. Sarah TOWNSEND was born about 1665 in Of, Hempstead, Nassau, New York. She has Ancestral File Number 9JBT-9F. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Elizabeth COLES. Sarah TOWNSEND was born on 20 May 1741 in Greenwich,Worcester,Massachusetts. She died in 1819 at the age of 78 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New York. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Hannah HANCOCK. Spouse: Jonas GIBBS. Sarah TOWNSEND and Jonas GIBBS were married on 30 December 1775. Children were: Abigail GIBBS. Sarah TOWNSEND was born on 12 January 1765 in Bolton, Worcester, MA. She died on 12 September 1849 at the age of 84. She has reference number 44RH-5P. Parents: Joshua TOWNSEND and Susanna Whitcomb LIVERMORE. Spouse: Daniel GREENLEAF. Solomon TOWNSEND was born about 1672 in Jerico, Nassau, NY. He died in 1707 at the age of 35. He has Ancestral File Number GMH4-L0. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Susanna HARCOURT. Solomon TOWNSEND orJames&MaryLink was born on 1 August 1676 in RumnyMarshBoston, Suffolk, MA, [Boston VR]. He died before 30 December 1723 at the age of 47 in FalmouthCascoBay, , ME, (PROBLY). He has reference number PF2Z-HD. AFN: !SOURCE: Solomon TOWNSEND vi was born on 5 May 1707 in Charlestown, , MA. He was christened on 24 August 1707 in Boston, , MA, 2nd Church. !SOURCES: THE ESSEX GENEALOGIST vol 13 no 4 [Nov 1993 pub at Lynnfield MA] p223; WALTHAM AND MALDEN, MASS VITAL RECORDS; MIDDLESEX PROBATE, 22703; BIRTH: etc: On 5 Jan 1724 Solomon Townsend [b1707] was placed under guardianship of Ebenezer Upham, yeoman, of Malden and Joseph Bucknam, a weaver, of Charlestown; Parents: Samuel TOWNSEND and Elizabeth BUCKNAM. son TOWNSEND was born about 1593 in , , , England prob. Parents: Henry TOWNSEND and Margaret FORTHE. Son TOWNSEND was born about 1662 in Jerico, Nassau, New York. He has Ancestral File Number NS09-N1. Parents: John TOWNSEND and Susanna HARCOURT. |