Joseph Townsend (1684 - 1766)

Born 18 Nov 1684 in Bucklebury, Berkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Esther (Wooderson) Townsend — married 27 Nov 1710 in Newberry Township, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1766 at age 81 in East Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Joseph Townsend was born 18 Nov 1684 in Bucklebury, Berkshire, England. He was apprenticed as a weaver. He married Martha Wooderson in 1712 and about fifteen months later, with their infant child, they sailed for America. They had eight children.

He died 9 Apr 1766 at his plantation in East Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania and his wife died a year later. Both were buried at Birmingham Friends burying grounds, Birmingham Lafayette Cemetery, Pennsylvania

"Born in Berkshire County, England in 1684. In 1710, Joseph married Martha Wooderson, who was born in 1683. He was also a member of the Society of Friends, and with his wide and sister Joan also emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1712 and resided at Philadelphia and Old Chester, and finally settled near Westchester, Pa., in 1725, where he owned, also at East Bradford, several hundred acres of land, and at whose house his uncle Richard Townsend died."^[1] Uncertain if sister Joan is Joseph or Martha's sibling

Sources

1. ↑ Townsend--Townshend, 1066-1909: the history, genealogy and alliances of the English and American house of Townsend by Margaret (Townsend) Tagliapietra, pg. 44

• Eng & W Quaker BMD Registers - Birth - Bucklebury Reading and Warborough Meeting piece1353
• Eng & W Quaker BMD Registers - Marriage - Berkshire
• US Find a Grave Index - Birmingham Lafayette Cemetery, West Chester, Chester County, PA, USA
• 'Townsend Family from Pennsylvania Founding Families'.
• 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.
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:38LS-F54

• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

• Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825

• Find A Grave: Memorial #46428079

• Cope, Gilbert. Genealogy of the Sharpless Family, Descended From John and Jane Sharples (Philadelphia, 1887) Page 175.

• He "was young when his father died and lived some time with Oliver Sansom, a highly valued Friend. He was bound apprentice Sept. 29, 1699, to Jonathan Sargood, a weaver, for seven years..."