Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, [inverted sequence] page 4. Excerpt from a September 13, 1658 deed from Thomas Armitage to Anne Lillestone (whom Armitage would later marry) giving her a mare; copied approximately 1661 by Matthew Bridgman, town clerk, and witnessed by Thomas Townsend; with a note regarding Thomas Townsend; this section is inverted and paged backwards relative to the rest of the volume. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, [inverted sequence] page 5. Note regarding the dating of Thomas and Henry Townsend's arrivals in Oyster Bay (continued); summary of a September 3, 1663 decree of the town of Oyster Bay that all inhabitants of the town be granted 20 acres of the common land unless they prefer ten acres; a December 21, 1663 decree that Joseph Halstead be granted a house lot; and notes regarding a March 25, 1664 mention of John Underhill Jr. and the use of Quaker dating by Henry Townsend as town clerk. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, [inverted sequence] page 6. A March 4, 1677/8 decree of the town of Oyster Bay granting land at Ash Swamp and exclusive right to operate a tavern and sell alcoholic beverages to whomever would keep a tavern there; the grant was accepted by Thomas Townsend and confirmed by the town constable and overseers; with a March 9, 1677/8 notice that Thomas Townsend had returned the grant. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page [71], blank. Lower two-thirds of leaf cut away. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 70. Note documenting the October 2, 1691 birth of Roseannah Coles who later married George Townsend Jr.; lower two-thirds of leaf cut away with loss to text. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 69, blank. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 68. Notes on the November 6, 1709 death of "Rhode Island" John Townsend (continued), and his March 1704 appointment as town clerk and supervisor of Oyster Bay and his March 3, 1706/7 reappointment to those offices; bottom quarter of leaf cut away. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 67. Notes on the July 27, 1701 birth of Violetta Maccoune, the deaths of "Rhode Island" John Townsend, his wife Rebecca Almy, and their son, Sylvanus, and the February 11, 1703 [i.e. 1704] birth of their son, John. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 66. Excerpts from an October 10, 1704 deed from Henry Townsend Sr. to his son, Robert (continued), and from a July 20, 1704 deed from Henry Townsend Sr. giving land in Jamaica and elsewhere to his son, Henry Jr.; with a note documenting another mention of Henry Townsend Jr. in the records of Oyster Bay, 1704. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 65. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1693-1704; includes excerpts from an October 10, 1704 deed from Henry Townsend Sr. giving land and his share in a sawmill to his son, Robert. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 64. Note documenting the appointment of Thomas Townsend as town clerk of Oyster Bay and of John Dewsbury and "Mill John" Townsend to assist him; followed by a note documenting a mention of John Townsend as recorder on an August 6, 1697 deed of Joseph Dickinson. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 63. Excerpts from a February 13, 1696 [i.e. 1697] deed from Daniel Townsend to Thomas Powell Jr. for land at Latten's Neck; and from a May 18, 1696 deed from Henry Townsend Jr. to his brother, "Mill John" Townsend for land that had belonged to their late brother, Richard. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 62. Note summarizing a November 18, 1697 conveyance exchanging land at Cedar Swamp and Hog Island between "Mill John" Townsend and Job Townsend; and documenting mentions of Job Wright and Henry Townsend Jr. in the records of Oyster Bay, 1695 [i.e. 1696]-1696 [i.e. 1697]. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 61. Notes summarizing an August 14, 1696 deed from James Dickinson to his brother, Joseph, for land on West Neck; a May 10, 1697 deed from Henry Townsend to his brother in law, Joseph Dickinson, for land at Cedar Swamp; and a September 31, 1697 deed from John Townsend to Robert Coles for land on Hog Island; with genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 60. Genealogical notes on "Rhode Island" John Townsend and his wife Rebecca Almy (continued); an excerpt from a March 9, 1698 [i.e. 1699] deed from John Townsend to Thomas Jones for the sale of Townsend's land at Forth Neck with a stipulation that if the title should prove faulty, Townsend must return half the purchase money to Jones; and a note documenting a January 1, 1697 [i.e. 1698] deed from John Harrison, Flushing, to Thomas Jones. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 59. Notes summarizing a July 13, 1696 deed from Maomy and Will Cheppie, Massapequa Indians, to John Townsend the sale of land at Fort Neck for £10 and a June 1, 1694 deed from Thomas Townsend to his son John for land in northern Oyster Bay; and genealogical notes on "Rhode Island" John Townsend and his wife Rebecca Almy. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 58. Excerpts from a June 30, 1696 deed from Thomas Townsend to his son John Townsend for his house and various properties in Oyster Bay (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 57. Note summarizing a June 6, 1697 deed from Seruckon and Wamoson, Massapeaqua Indians, to Thomas Jones for land at Fort Neck; and excerpts from a June 30, 1696 deed from Thomas Townsend, then living in Rhode Island, giving his house and various properties in Oyster Bay to his son John Townsend, but retaining the right to use the properties during his life. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 56. Notes summarizing several 1696 deeds from Tackapausha, sachem of the Massapeaqua, and others for land at Fort Neck and an April 28, 1696 will of Richard Harcutt leaving a coverlet to his granddaughter, Hannah Townsend. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 55. Excerpts from an August 20, 1696 deed from Will Cheppie, son of Chopeyconnaws ("old Chippy"), to Thomas Townsend giving him Cheppie's share of land at Fort Neck held in common with Townsend for which Townsend was to give Cheppie "one good new cloth coat" every December 1st; Cheppie and his son and grandson retained the right to plant on unimproved parts of granted land. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 54. Excerpts from a June 29, 1696 deed from Thomas Townsend to his son in law and daughter, Thomas and Freelove Jones (continued); and from a June 29, 1696 deed from Ephraim Carpenter Jr. to Townsend for a house and lot and two adjoining parcels of land in Oyster Bay, with a note that Townsend assigned these properties to Thomas and Freelove Jones. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 53. Excerpts from a June 4, 1693 deed from Cheppie [i.e. Chopeyconnaws], Maomy, and Will Cheppie, Massapequa Indians, to Thomas Townsend for the sale of land at Fort Neck for £10; and from a June 29, 1696 deed from Townsend giving his land at Fort Neck to Thomas and Freelove Jones, his son in law and daughter, respectively. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 52. Excerpts from a May 31, 1693 deed from Cheppie [i.e. Chopeyconnaws] and other Massapequas to Thomas Townsend for the sale of land at Fort Neck for £15; Townsend also received the right to graze cattle, cut timber, and build mills upon land still held by the Massapequa while they retained to right to cut firewood and camp upon unimproved parts of the land sold to Townsend. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, unnumbered verso of page 51. Genealogy of Peter S. Townsend. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 51. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1684-1697; includes a January 13, 1696 [i.e. 1697] quitclaim deed from Will Cheppie, Maomy, and Seruckon, Massapeaqua Indians, relinquishing their claim to Fort Neck to Thomas Townsend in exchange for £3 in lieu of annual payments of one coat to Will Cheppie; with added genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 50. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family and others in the records of Oyster Bay, 1695-1698; with added genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 49. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1697-1698; includes a June 2, 1697 deed from Asher, Wamehas, sachem of the Secatogue, Ronuse, his wife, and Suscanemon to Edward White, Thomas Townsend and two others; with added genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 48. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1695-1697; with added genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, page 47. Notes documenting mentions of members of the Townsend family in the records of Oyster Bay, 1694 [i.e. 1695]-1698 [i.e. 1699]; with added genealogical notes. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, additional extracts from the records of Oyster Bay, verso of inserted slip [4]. Inserted slip blank except for two words: "Berton" and "Brenton." View Item