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Towne William
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  • Birth  Abt 1603  England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 09:18:05 GMT-5 
    Died  1672  Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID  I5358  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Family  Blessing Joanna or Jane,   d. 1682 
    Married  25 Mar 1620  Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Children 
     1. Towne Rebecca,   b. Feb 1621, Great Yarmouth, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jul 1692
    Family ID  F2287  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • The surname Towne is an ancient English surname but not o-f frequent occurrence. It is found as early as 1227. Again in the reign of Henry IV. the coat-of-arms of the Towne family and the family nameare found on a memorial window in a church at Kensington, county Kent. The arms are described: Argent on a chevron sable, three crosses crosslet, ermine. It is believed that Richard Towne, of Braceby, Lincolnshire, England, and his wife Ann, were parents of the American immigrant, mentioned below.

      (I) William Towne, the American immigrant, was born in England and baptized May 21, 1603. He married, at Yarmouth, county Norfolk, England, March 25, 1620, Joanna Blessing, in the church of St. Nicholas, and there six of his children were baptized. He settled, first, at Salem, Massachusetts, where he had a grant of land in 1640 and resided in the part of the town called Northfields until 1651, when he bought land and moved to Topsfield. In 1652 he sold his Salem property and bought more land at Topsfield. He died at Topsfield about 1672. His widow died ten years later. Children: i. Rebecca, baptized February 21, 1621; married Francis Nurse; she was executed for withcraft at Salem, July 19, 1692. 2. John, baptized February 16, 1624. 3. Susannah, baptized October 20, 1625. 4. Edmund, baptized June 28, 1628. 5. Jacob, mentioned below. .6. Mary, baptized August 24, 1634; married Isaac Estcy; she was also executed for withcraft, September 22, 1692. 7. Sarah, baptized September 3, 1648. 8. Joseph, born 1639, baptized September 3, 1649.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S68] New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, William Richard Cutter, (Name: 1913-1915;), v. 1 p 50 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S281] Putnam's monthly historical magazine, Eden Putnam, (Name: Eben Putnam, 1893;), 96 (Reliability: 3).

  

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