James Townsend

3. Sarah Livermore m. James Townsend (?), of Charlestown, and d. before her parents, leaving one son, James.

Elizabeth Price, b. 10 February 1664, daughter of Richard Price and Elizabeth Cromwell, married James Townsend of Boston.

From Family Profile: Captain Thomas Cromwell, Seventeenth-Century Pirate by Thomas E. Jones Published Date: December 1985. link

Although there is no solid evidence of Anne's parentage, Thomas Cromwell's will raises the possibility that she was the Anne listed as daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sherman and sister of Alice Sherman who married Thomas Spaule.

The Cromwells had only one child,

• Elizabeth, conjectured to have been born around 1640 She first married Richard Price on 18 August 1659.
  • They had Thomas b. 22 July 1660, Joyliffe b. 2 March 1662, Elizabeth b. 10 February 1664, and Richard b. 26 March 1667. The older Richard died in 1674. The older Elizabeth (i.e., Cromwell daughter) married her second husband, Isaac Vicers, between the period of 1674 and early 1680.
    • Elizabeth Price (i.e., Cromwell's granddaughter) married James Townsend of Boston.
    • Rebecca Vicers who married Captain Samuel Binney of Hull on 11 Nov. 1701.

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• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Townsend_(40)_
• Boston (Massachusetts). City Registrar. Births 1630-1799, 1849-1900, and indexes 1630-1869 (Boston, Massachusetts). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969), p. 23. 1646. Town. James of William & Hannh Townsend born 15th - 11th month. [Note: In old-styles dates, the eleventh month is January. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.] [Also, p. 25: 1646. First Church. James of William Townsend aged about 2 days 17 day 11 mo.]
• Waters, Henry F. "The Family of William Townsend, of Boston", in Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press), Vol. 19, p. 274. "Widow Elizabeth refused administration and brothers-in-law appointed administrators 17 Dec 1689."
• page 270 of Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of ..., Volume 1 By Henry Bond