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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
John Townsend |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
9 Apr 1656 |
Bucklebury, Berkshire, England |
| Marriage |
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to Unknown |
| Marriage |
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to Elizabeth _____ |
| Marriage Notice |
16 Jan 1693/94 |
16 11th mo. 1693, Newbury MM
to Elizabeth Pococke |
| Marriage Notice |
20 Mar 1693/94 |
20 1st mo. 1694, Newbury MM
to Elizabeth Pococke |
| Marriage |
8 Apr 1694 |
Oare, Berkshire, England8 2nd mo. 1694, Newbury MM
to Elizabeth Pococke |
| Immigration[1] |
1712 |
Pennsylvania, United Statesprobable year of immigration |
| Property[1][4] |
28/29 Dec 1715 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statespurchase |
| Property[1][5] |
14 Jul 1716 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statessold portion of the land to Hugh Lowdon |
| Burial[1][3] |
17 Jun 1727 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Probate[1][7] |
14 Dec 1727 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesinventory taken 14 d. 10th mo. 1727 |
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Personal History
John Townsend, son of Richard Townsend,[2] was born on 9 April 1656 in the parish of Bucklebury, Berkshire, England.[2]
On 27 May 1717 John, a “labourer”, was admitted as a freeman to the City of Philadelphia.[1][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Greene, David L. “Townsend Ancestry of Richard of the Welcome, John of Philadelphia, Joseph of Chester County, and Joan of Chester County”, in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania)
42 (4): 293–313, Fall/Winter 2002.
(See John1 Townsend from pages 303–6.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Church of England. Parish Church of Bucklebury, and J. W. Brooks. Parish register transcripts, 1538–1840. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987)
FHL 1278815 Item 1, p n.n.
Digital image in DGS 7767921, image 49 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMZ-7WJK-D : accessed 19 April 2018).
Baptisms, 1656: “John s/o Richard TOWNSEND born 9 Apr”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Greene cites, “Cope, Abstract of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 141; FHL #20,467.”
- ↑ Greene writes, “He was certainly in Philadelphia by 28–29 December 1715, when, as John Townsend laborer he purchased land on the north side of Walnut Street in Philadelphia from David Powell surveyor (Philadelphia County Deeds E9:431, 432.);...”
- ↑ Greene cites, “Philadelphia County Deeds E9:435, 436.”
- ↑ Greene cites, “Robert E. Hoagland, ‘Persons Admitted as Freemen to the City of Philadelphia, 1704–1720,’ PGM 33(1983): 112, from Minutes of the Common Council II:35.”
- ↑ Greene cites, “Philadelphia County Administrations A79, 1727. The inventory has the same date and is part of the same file.”
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