Solomon Townsend (1746 - 1811)

Born 1746 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York

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Biography

Solomon Townsend is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A115731.

Captain Solomon Townsend (1746 – March 27, 1811) was a merchant ship's captain prior to the American Revolution, owned an iron works in New York State, and was a representative to the New York State Legislature. Stranded in London following the outbreak of hostilities, Townsend's passage back to America was facilitated by Benjamin Franklin.

After the war he was a successful owner of an iron works plant, and a member of the New York State Legislature. One of his children followed him into the legislature and another was a founder of what became the New York Academy of Sciences.

Children

1. Hannah, who married her cousin Isaiah Townsend, a wealthy merchant in Albany NY, (who in term had a son Robert Townsend (Captain) a ship captain for the US Navy in the Civil War)
2. Anne, who married Effingham Lawrence, a Queens county judge; and their son was State Senator Edward A. Lawrence
3. Mary, 1789–1849 married to Edward H. Nicoll, a New York City merchant,
4. Phoebe, married to James Thorne, an Albany merchant,
5. Solomon Samuel Townsend Jr. 1805–1880 a state legislator.
6. Peter S. Townsend MD, 1795–1849 a founder of the Lyceum of Natural History, now called the New York Academy of Sciences.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Townsend
• George Washington's Secret Six, 2013 Penguin, Kilmeade & Yeager, ISBN 978-0-698-13765-3
• http://www.thetownsendfamily.com/--culper-spy-ring.html
• http://www.thetownsendfamily.com/captain-solomon-townsend-1746-1811.html
• http://raynhamhallmuseum.org/history/samuel-townsends-family-
• http://www.thetownsendfamily.com/captain-solomon-townsend-1746-1811.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/15/nyregion/rememberng-a-master-spy-at-home.html
• http://www.geni.com/people/Solomon-Townsend/6000000000281045290
• Townsend, W. A. A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, and Their Descendants (New York, 1865) Page 98