Person:Stephen Townsend (8)

Stephen Townsend
 
  1. Stephen Townsend - Abt 1769
  2. James Townsend
  • HStephen Townsend - Abt 1769
  • W.  Elizabeth (add)
  1. Ann Townsend
  2. Elizabeth Townsend1724 - 1794
  3. Mary Townsend1727 - 1806
  4. Stephen Townsend, Jr.1732 - 1793
  5. Sarah Townsend1735 - 1827
  6. William Townsend1740 - 1806
  7. Hannah Townsend - 1754
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Stephen Townsend
Gender Male
Religion[3] 7 Nov 1737 Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United StatesQuaker - Buckingham MM accepts cert from Abington MM for himself and his wife and children
Will[2] 10 Jun 1757 Solebury (township), Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage to Elizabeth (add)
Death[1] Abt 1769 Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
Probate[1] 5 Jun 1769 inventory
Probate[2] 7 Jun 1769 Bucks, Pennsylvania, United Statesproved will
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 the children of John1 Townsend, maternity uncertain, iv. Stephen2 Townsend from pages 306–7.)

    "David Erwin with wife Elizabeth sold the land to trustees on 6 February 1769 for the erection of a new statehouse. Fortunately, that deed cited the entire chain of title; the following is most important for our purposes:

    "And Whereas the said John Townsend by Force and Virtue of some good Conveyance and assura[nce] in the Law duly had and executed became in his lifetime Lawfully seized in his demesne as of Fee of and in the Lot or piece of ground herein mentioned and described being part of the above described Lot. And being so thereof seized died Intestate leaving Issue, Four Sons and Five Daughters, to wit Stephen Townsend his eldest son James Joseph and Charles his Younger Sons, and Elizabeth Sarah Mary Jane and Ra[chel] who intermarried with Alexander Foreman, Owen Thomas Jo[hn] Kennard Thomas Humphreys and William Adams ... And the said James Joseph Charles his Younger Sons and the said Owin Thomas and Sarah his Wife in right of the Said Sarah, John Kennard and Mary his wife in right of the said Mary, Thomas Humphreys and Jane his wife in right of the said Jane, and William Adams and Rachel his Wife in right of the said Rachel ..."

    [Footnote citation]
    "Philadelphia Deeds 16:203; FHL #21,991; the microfilm copy is missing several pages, but what remains is sufficient for the purposes of identifying John Townsend's children. I learned of this deed through Opfer, 'John Townsend, carpenter.'"

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994: Images. (FamilySearch)
    3: 192-194, will no. 1259, FHL #172900 (images 119-120 of 578) , proved 7 Jun 1769.

    [Abstract]
    Dated 10 June 1757. The will of Stephen (X) Townsend, of Solebury, Bucks co., Pennsylvania, a yeoman, bequeaths to sons Stephen Townsend and William Townsend; grandchildren John Hough, Mary Hough, Ellin Hough, and Jonathan Hough; and daughters Elisabeth Kennard, Mary Skelton, Sarah Smith, and Ann Townsend. Exs. friends John Scharbrough and Samuel Eastburn. Witnessed by Jonas Paxson, Sarah (X) Hough, and Samuel Armitage. Proved 7 June 1769, by Jonas Paxson and Samuel Armitage.

  3. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014)
    1737.

    From Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Abington Monthly Meeting minutes:
    30 May 1737 - Stephen Townsend received a certificate to Buckingham Monthly Meeting for himself and family.
    -----
    [Wife and children's names are not listed, nor is there an earlier reference to his marriage or arrival in the meeting.]

  4.   [1], in Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Congregational Records, 1620-1991
    3 Nov 1737.