Martin Townsend, II

Immigrated to Boston (Watertown), Massachusetts 1644

According to South Carolina records, Martin had taken out a warrant (option) on 200 acres in 1696. After he died, primogeniture prevailed in South Carolina and his eldest son Martin (according to the Probate Court) was the recipient of this warrant. This son apparently had "expectations" in South Carolina.

He died in South Carolina while arranging for land to purchase. His belongings were returned to Watertown, MA, aboard the Mary in 1698. His burial site, no doubt, is in Berkeley County but has never been located.

Martin Townsend of Watertown had four children.

1. Martin, born in 1671, wbo died in infancy;
2. Abigail, born about 1673,
3. and another Martin, born before 1680,
4. and Jonathan, born in 1687.

Martin, senior, went to Berkeley County, in Carolina, a little south of Charleston, with a view of purchas- ing lands there, and died there of fever late in 1697.

In 1699, Abigail was appointed guardian for her brothers Martin and Jonathan, and Thomas Train (presumably a cousin or nncle), was her bondsman. Abigail, about 1700, married a Mr. Pratt of Watertown, and bore him several children, amongst whom were Nathaniel and Martin, born before 1705. She was dead in 1714. In 1711 the inheritance in lands was divided between Abigail, Martin and Jonathan by commissioners in such wise as to give Martin

References

• The Townsend genealogy, 1066-1981 : Massachusetts, New York, Conneticut [sic] by Townsend, Leland Henry, 1926- (Publication date 1981) < Archive.Org >
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-N8G : 20 May 2022), Johnathan Townsend, 27 Jul 1688; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514
• Townsend, Martin Ingram; The English Townsends : the Tancreds crusaders : the Townsends of Watertown, Massachusetts : The Townsends of Hebron, Ct. and of Hancock, Mass., Troy, N.Y., 1899. pages 13-22. < FamilySearch >