Person:John Townsend (30)

"A memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, and their descendants", pg. 137:

JOHN Townsend (Daniel2, John1) was born in 1712, and removed, in 1738, to East Chester, Westchester County, where he bought a farm. In 1739 he married Anne Gedney. He was 'a Friend, but his wife being an Episcopalian, he was disowned by the Meeting. He continued a Friend in principle, but contributed to the building of the Episcopal Church in East Chester. He was a very large man, being full six feet two, with a form in proportion. He had a double row of teeth all aroiind. He died in 1787, and was buried in the graveyard belonging to St. Paul's Church, East Chester.

—Issue: Freelove, John, James, Elijah, Daniel, Mary, Margaret, Martha.

John joined the American army in the Revolution, and afterward settied in Herkimer, in which County and Montgomery, we have been told, his descendants still reside.

James went on board an armed vessel, and was never heard of afterward.

Freelove was born in 1740, in what was called the hard winter, when the Sound was frozen over at Throg's Point, so that wagons crossed. Her brothers were all good Whigs, but she continued loyal, and her daughter Jemima married Captain Eraser, an Irishman in the British army, with whom she went to Europe, but returned to this country, and died several years ago. Freelove married "William Pinkney, a farmer of East Chester, and died in 1816 or 1817.

Elijah was bom the 8th of June, 1751, and, in 1773, married Mary Tredwell, who was born July 14, 1754. He removed to Duchess County, and died April 3, 1824. His wife died April 8, 1813.—Issue, Sybil, Anna, Phebe, Tredwell, Martha, John, Hannah, Mary, Elijah, Samuel, James, Freelove, Moses.