Historical records matching Henry Townsend, Jr.
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About Henry Townsend, Jr.
Biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Townsend_(Oyster_Bay)
Henry Townsend (1649-1703) was the son of Henry Townsend who emigrated to the colonies from England. Eventually Henry Townsend settled in Oyster Bay, where his son Henry Townsend was raised.[1] Townsend Society of America DNA testing project has established that the Oyster Bay family is not related to Thomas Townsend of Lynn, MA. The county of origin in England for Henry, John and Richard Townsend is not known.
Henry Townsend married Deborah Underhill in 1677. Deborah Underhill (1659-1698) was daughter of Captain John Underhill (1597-1672), another important figure in Colonial America who trained the militia of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and served as magistrate of Flushing for a brief period of time, before settling on 150 acres (0.61 km2) of land outside of Oyster Bay. Captain Underhill was converted to Quakerism by his second wife, thus making the union of Henry Townsend and Deborah Underhill the combining of two of the most influential Quaker families in Oyster Bay.[2]
They had at least four children together:
- Robert Townsend (b. 1687),
- Elizabeth Townsend (1692-1756),
- Henry (d. 1709) and
- Uriah Townsend (1698-1767)
Henry Townsend (1670-1709) was the son of Henry Townsend and Deborah Underhill. He bought the mill his grandfather had built from his uncle John Townsend, and when his Uncle John died, he was elected town surveyor, being the third generation in direct descent engaged in surveying and to operate the mill. He married Eliphal Wright, daughter of his aunt Mary Townsend and John Wright.
References
- Cocks, George William (1914). History and Genealogy of the Cock - Cocks - Cox Family. New York: Privately Printed. pp. 367. OCLC 14443162.
- Hughes, Thomas Patrick (1887). American Ancestry. New York: J. Munsell's Sons. pp. pp. 83-84. OCLC 27520905.
- Cocks, George William (1914). History and Genealogy of the Cock - Cocks - Cox Family. New York: Privately Printed. pp. p. 367. OCLC 14443162 < Archive.Org >
- Torrey’s “New England Marriages Prior to 1700”, page 749. Towle-Townsend. (document attached)
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Henry Townsend, Jr.'s Timeline
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1649
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Flushing, New Netherland Colony
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1670
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Oyster Bay, Long Island, Province of New York
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1680
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December 25, 1692
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Oyster Bay, Queens, New York, British Colonial America
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1698
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Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States
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March 30, 1709
Age 60
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Oyster Bay, Queens County, New York
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Ancestor Of, Orange Albany, Townsends
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UNCLEARED
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Ancestor of, Orange Albany, Townsends
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