By: Scudder Association Foundation Historian

Scudder Association Foundation Historian — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:20:23 +0000

J. C. Townsend’s A Memorial of John, Henry and Richard Townsend, page 98 takes from Dr. Townsend’s Notes, says that Solomon Seaman, stated this about his nephew Samuel5 Townsend (Jacob4, James3, John2, John1 I).
“A fine old gentleman, of regular features, straight nose, a large blue eye, high forehead. A snuff-colored or gray suit, with silver knee and shoe buckles, a white stock of cambric lawn gathered in five plaits, fastened behind with a paste buckle, showing no collar, narrow ruffles at the shirt-bosom, gold-headed cane and cocked hat. A certain Solomon Seaman, uncle to Samuel, used to say he hated to see Sam and Sarah Townsend come into meeting, they looked so tall and proud. He was a member of meeting by birthright, his parents being strict Friends, and his wife, though baptized in the Episcopal Church, preferred the Friends. The [traveling] preachers, when in Oyster Bay, made his house their home. The preachers, when in Oyster Bay, made his house their home.”

By: Amy Adams

Amy Adams — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:15:04 +0000

Very informative. I ntie that the link listed in footnote 63 must be a broken link.
You indicate that Samuel5 Townsend was a Quaker. In Claire Bellerjeau’s book, “Espionage and Enslavement”, she claimss that Samuel was not a Quaker based on the fact he appears in the Baptist Church Register in O.B. My theory on that is that he was a Quaker, as I know his wife was, but when Col. John Graves Simcoe destroyed the Quaker Mtg. House after confiscating it for his stores, in O.B., it was was never rebuilt. I do not know if his wife Sarah Stoddard was a Quaker or not.

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