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Mark Isham

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Betsey Towne

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Mark Isham — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 35 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Towne 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Frost   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Aug 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stoddard, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 27 Jun 1866 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Draper Messer
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  • Child:

  Christiana Towne Messer (Ahnentafel No:17 )

• Sources for Betsey Towne

  • ¹ Federal Census, NH, Cheshire County, 1850, Alstead, Image 31 of 34.
  • ² Federal Census, NH, Cheshire County, 1860, Alstead, p. 26, Image 26 of 34.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982, Probate file for spouse Nathaniel Messer.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982, 27 JUN 1866, Will of Betsey Messer.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Births T-U-V to 1901, p. 11907, Birth record for Betsey Towne.
  • ⁶ Aldrich, George, Walpole As It Was and As It Is: Containing the Complete Civil History of the Town From 1749 to 1879, Claremont, New Hampshire: The Claremont Manufacturing Co. (1880), 334.
  • ⁷ Brainard, Homer Worthington, A Survey of the Ishams in England and America: Eight Hundred and Fifty Years of History and Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1938), 430.
  • ⁸ Towne, Edwin Eugene, The Descendants of William Towne: Who Came to American On or About 1630 and Settled in Salem, Mass., Newtonville, Massachusetts: Published by the Author (1901), 90.