Ancestral Glimpses » John Townsend (-1668)

Persoonlijke gegevens John Townsend 

• Hij is geboren op 1608–9 in Raynham Hall, Norwick, Norfolk, ENGLAND.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1610 in Oyster Bay, Cornwall, New York, British America.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1625 in Raynham Hall, Norwick, Norfolk, ENGLAND.
• Beroep: tanner and had a tanyard at the Collect (Fresh water) about where City Hall now stands in Manhattan..
• Hij is overleden op 5 oktober 1668 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, Nassau County, New York, British America, hij was toen 60 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven tussen 1668 en 1669 in Fort Hill Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, British America.
• Een kind van Thomas Townsend en Mary Newgate
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 november 2017.

Gezin van John Townsend

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Coles.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 1641 te Providence Plantation, Warwick, Rhode Island, British America.

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: John Townsend
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Elizabeth Cole
Number Pages: 1

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Townsend  1642-????
2. James Townsend  1639-1698 
3. Thomas Townsend  1642-1645
4. Thomas Townsend  1645-????
5. John Townsend  1645-1709
6. Elizabeth Townsend  1646-????
7. Rose Townsend  1652-1689 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth (Wickes) Weeks.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1657 te Jericho, Queens, New York, British America, hij was toen 49 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. George Weeks  
2. Sarah Townsend  ± 1665-????
3. Anne Townsend  ± 1667-????
4. Daniel Townsend  ± 1669-????

Notities over John Townsend

The three brothers, John, Henry and Richard came to New Amsterdam ca. 1640. John already had wife Elizabeth, born in Ireland. The brothers resided in New Amsterdam until the tragic Indian War of 1643. There were friendly Indians living among the settlers and when threatened by a hostile tribe, the friendly Indians fled toward the fort at New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the then governor, did not let the friendly Indians in but instead fired upon them.
This led to a senseless war that left little standing of the fledgling colony. After living in an overcrowded fort for two years, Willem Kieft granted to the English settlers a tract of land which we now know as Flushing. Forever at odds with the Dutch over many things like not having English officials such as sheriff, magistrates, and having to pay tithe to the Dutch Church, most of the colony left and went to Providence Plantation, Warwick, Rhode Island.
One large issue was the treatment of Quakers. Massachusetts threw them out and they came to the Dutch Colony to be with other English speaking peoples. The Dutch would have none of it. The Townsends were not then Quakers (some did become so at a later date) but they objected to the terrible treatment handed out to their countrymen. Henry Townsend went to jail no less than 3 times and paid large fines.
After about ten years the Townsends returned to Long Island and this time they settled in what we now know as Jamaica. Again, they were soon at odds with the Dutch. In 1661 they folded up and moved to Oyster Bay which was beyond Dutch rule. By this time, Oyster Bay was in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Connecticut Colony. The land that the brothers owned in Jamaica was later sold by their children. The record of what happened to their land in Flushing is unknown since all the records were burned.
The were not Quakers, although some descendants of them did belong years later. The main body of the New York Townsends have always belonged to the Anglican faith. Most of our good marriage records come from St. George's Anglican Church in Hempstead, NY .
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John Townsend was a young man with a wife named Elizabeth, when they arrived in New Amsterdam ca. 1640 along with John's brothers, Henry and Richard. John was a tanner and had a tanyard at the Collect (Fresh water) about where City Hall now stands in Manhattan. John and Elizabeth baptized their second son, Thomas, in the Dutch Reform Church, New Amsterdam in Dec 1642. His older brother, John, was probably born ca. 1640, but did not make the Dutch records. Henry Townsend was a witness to this bapt. The child died and on 9 Apr 1645, John and Elizabeth bapt. a second son named, Thomas, in the same church with most of the same witnesses. According to a petition that the widow Elizabeth Townsend filed with the Governor of New York (regarding the abandoned) property in 1643) there was an Indian War in 1643, which nearly destroyed all of the Dutch settlement except for the old fort and Wall Street now marks the one wall. After two years, the then Dutch Governor, Willem Kieft, granted to the English speaking settlers, a patent to what we now know as Flushing. While John Townsend is named, Henry and Richard are not named, as they were single men and probably fell under the heading of "Associates".
John died at Oyster Bay and his widow wrote an estate settlement in which she named all of her children. Since John died intestate, this was done at the request of her two brothers-in-law to protect the rights of the children, in case Elizabeth should remarry or die. Happily she did neither. The bapt. records were transcribed from the Dutch and belong to the NYG&B. Elizabeth's petition regarding the property she and John "first settled" appears in the first book of New York Deeds in the NY State Library in Albany.

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