Townsend family papers, 1746-1864.

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Townsend family papers, 1746-1864.

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Papers, 1746-1874, consisting of correspondence, accounts, journals, financial documents, and school exercises created by various members of the Townsend family. The first two boxes contain business and personal correspondence, bonds, indentures, accounts, bills, etc., ca. 1750-1864, including 69 import certificates, 1827-1832, for the import of brandy and gin into the Port of New York. Members of the family represented include Jacob, Robert, Solomon (father and son), Ann, William, Peter S., David, Elizabeth, Isaiah, Maurice E., Phebe, Sarah, Anna Townsend Lawrence, and Mary Townsend Nicoll. There is also a pen and ink caricature of Lieutenant William Seton Ogden, U.S. Navy, dated 1838. Several documents relate to trade with the West Indies during the 1750s. Another large group of documents consists of letters from merchants in New Orleans to Townsend & Stanton, New York City, during 1834-1836. Some papers have annotations in a later hand. The third box contains nineteenth-century transcripts of deeds and other documents relating to Townsend family property. The fourth box contains 36 letters to and from various members of the Townsend family, mostly about family matters, although there are five letters dated 1847, from D. Stoddard of Boston to Solomon Townsend, dealing with Stoddard's efforts to sell Townsend's tea cargo. It also contains a folder of miscellaneous letters, telegrams and notes, including two volumes of penmanship exercises by the younger Solomon Townsend, dated 1820; a business notebook belonging to Samuel Townsend, dated 1746-1752; a daybook of his, dated 1761-1762; a fragment of a daybook dated 1761-1762, with "Negro Ledger" written on the cover, which records small sales at Oyster Bay to African American slaves; a journal of a voyage from Boston to Jamaica and London on the ship Glasgow, by the elder Solomon Townsend, dated 1776, mostly technical notes on wind conditions, etc.; a letter from the younger Solomon Townsend to his brother Samuel, dated Canton, 1825, and describing the voyage from Java to Canton; accounts of the estate of the elder Samuel Townsend, in account with Robert Townsend, covering the period 1791-1806; a cash book, dated 1781-1784; a book of estray records, dated 1762-1775, listing strayed livestock in the Oyster Bay area and describing their earmarks; and a list of ships out of various ports in Connecticut and Rhode Island, dated 1820; and two wrap cases, each containing two notebooks. One contains a manuscript dealing with trigonometry, probably the one mentioned in Peter S. Townsend's diary as having been written by his grandfather, Samuel Townsend, in 1736, and a receipt book, dated 1806-1810. The other wrap case contains two notebooks dated 1844, containing material on family history, much of it notes made on a visit to Rhode Island.

1.6 linear feet (4 boxes)

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Townsend, Samuel, b. 1717

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Merchant, probably in New York City or Long Island. From the description of Daybook, 1750-1751. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773615 ...

Townsend, Phebe, b. 1759.

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Townsend, Jacob.

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Townsend, Robert, 1753-1838

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Robert Townsend (November 25, 1753 – March 7, 1838) was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution. He operated in New York City and gathered information as a service to General George Washington. After the war, Townsend ended his business connections in New York and moved back to Oyster Bay. He never married and shared his family's home, and grew old with his sister Sally....

Townsend, Solomon, 1805-1880.

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Merchant and resident of New York City. From the description of Ledger, 1821-1823. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773689 Family based in New York City and Long Island. From the description of Townsend family history and documents, 1827-1874. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773607 ...

Townsend, Sally, 1760?-1842

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Sarah Townsend was thought to be an informant for George Washington's Culper Ring, a spy ring founded in the summer of 1778. Townsend lived in Oyster Bay and passed information to her brother, Robert Townsend, a main member of the ring. She died in December 1842 and is buried at the Townsend Cemetery....

Townsend, Elizabeth.

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Townsend, Anne Bradford

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Stoddard, Donna

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Townsend family.

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Lawrence, Anna Townsend, d. 1845.

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Townsend, Maurice

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Townsend, William, 1909-1973

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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore collection, 1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70953999 ...

Townsend, Isaiah, 1777-1838

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Isaiah and his brother John Townsend were merchants, iron manufacturers and politicians in the Albany, N.Y. area. John served as mayor of the City of Albany from 1829 to 1832. They played an important role in the early industrial development of Albany. From the description of Papers, 1795-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122458705 ...

Townsend, Solomon, 1746-1811

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Merchant, shipmaster, iron founder, and member of the New York State Assembly. From the description of Papers, 1768-1811. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475901033 ...

Townsend, David, 1955-....

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Ogden, William Seton

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William Seton Ogden was partner in Breck & Ogden general merchandise store in Portland, Oregon. Mary E. Dryer was the daughter of the first editor of the Oregonian, Thomas Jefferson Dryer. From the description of William Seton Ogden marriage certificate [manuscript], 1852 November 11. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 710913201 ...

Townsend & Stanton.

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Glasgow (Ship)

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Nicoll, Mary Townsend, 1789-1849.

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Townsend, Peter S. (Peter Solomon), 1796-1849

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Physician, New York City. From the description of Diary, 1823. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773605 ...