Ancestry of
Robert Townsend

Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution

Benjamin Seaman

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• • Great-grandfather of Robert Townsend — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • John Seaman 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Strickland   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1650 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 28 Feb 1723 to 5 Nov 1733 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Jerusalem (now Wantagh), Nassau, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Titus
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Sep 1695 
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  • Child:

  Phoebe Seaman (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Benjamin Seaman

  • ¹ Seaman, Mary Thomas, The Seaman Family in America as Descended from Captain John Seaman of Hempstead, Long Island, New York: Tobias A. Wright, Inc. (1928), 21, 38-40.
  • ² Thompson, Benjamin F., The History of Long Island; from Its Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Time, Vol. 2, New York: Gould, Banks and Co. (1843), 347.
  • ³ Titus, Leo J., Titus: A North American Family History, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (2004), 10.
  • ⁴ Titus, Rev. Anson, Jr., The Titus Family in America, (1881), 4.