Ithiel Towner (1742 - 1810)

Born 21 Dec 1742 in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Crosby) Towner — married 1765 in Putnam, New York

Descendants

Died 26 Jul 1810 at age 67 in Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Le Haut-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada

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Biography

Ithiel Towner was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Undetermined
Date: Undated

Ithiel Towner was a Loyalist in the American Revolution.

Private Ithiel Towner served with the British Army during the French and Indian War.
Service Started: Spring 1759
Unit(s): 2nd Connecticut Regiment
Service Ended: Fall, 1759

Ithiel Towner served in the French and Indian War being mustered into the service in the Spring of 1759, and mustered out in the Fall of 1759.date. Often soldiers would re-enlist. which he did in 1762.

The Greenwich Company, under the command of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 2nd Regiment early in the spring of 1762 The printed roll contains the following names: Ithiel Towner, Sergeant. [1]

In 1775 he was living in Charlotte County, Vermont. (see photo)

Canadian Immigrant Records, Part One 1777 Eshiel Towner, Year of Record1777, War Office Records: Monthly Return of Royalists and Loyalist Corps coming in from the Colonies or stationed in Canada. Came from Crown Point Reference National Archives of Canada: Microfilm Reel No. B-2867 (MG 11, W.O. 28/10), page 10

In some books he is called ETHEL Towner. [2]

NOTE: From Crown Point on Lake Champlain to Saint Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec is about a 110 mile boat trip up Lake Champlain and on up the Richelieu River.

Will of Ithiel Towner. 1809

St. Johns, Janery 30, 1809 Ithiel Towner Last Will and Testament That is; the twelve eakers of Land in fornt and thirty in depth which I hold by dead from general Christy: four eakers in front and thirty in depth that I know Live on to remane in as it is Living my Life and

• my wife Sarah as either of ous Lives and then to be desposed of as here after shall be stated : four eakers in front and thirty in depth to the south of me agining

* Crosby Towner son of mine to hav in full for him during his Life and his deseas or death to his oldest mall child and so on to continue from won generation to another : fore eakers in front and thirty in depth to the south of Crosby and agining * William Towner son of mine to have in full ...his Lifetime and his deseas or deth to his oldest mall child and so to continue from won generation to another : and to

• my two daftors Deborah McKinzey Living High Crown point and
• Saley Woods Living at St Johns; to each of them I give won hundred pounds curince or to their femall ears to be paid out of the stock or outstanding debts or money if any Left at my death that my wife can spare : two hundred eakers of Land Liang at Magog I Leave to the
• other small children of Crosby and William Towner : know as to the farm or Lot of fore eakers... thirty I Leave to my wife Sarey Towner to have at her desposal during her Lifetime and at her death to be rented to the highist bider but any won of the towners of my famley to have it eight dollars cheaper than a stranger and that rent to goe to the scholing of the small children of Crosby and William Towner and so on from won gineration to another :and if after Deborah and Saley have resived the sums above mentioned (?) there should eany thing of propty be left to be devided among all my grand children : (??) Except the from the wife to have tou horses here unto I have set my hand in present (signed) Ithiel Towner

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Find A Grave: Memorial #54727351

Sources

• Family Historical/genealogy records.

• Claim of Ithiel Towner, Loyalist

[3]

• Ye historie of ye town of Greenwich, By S.P. Mead p. 79, 80

• Augustine George Hibbard, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: With Genealogies ,1897 p.550