Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of leaf 14. Note regarding the arrest of Robert Hodgson, a Quaker, who had preached at meetings in Hempstead; with a clipping affixed relating the details of his persecution from an early 19th century article by Samuel Smith (1720-1776) quoting Joseph Besse's Collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers. View Item