Ancestry of
Robert Townsend

Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution

Samuel Townsend

View famous kin of Samuel Townsend

• • Father of Robert Townsend — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Townsend 
  • Mother:
  • Phoebe Seaman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Jericho, Queens, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Fort Hill Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Stoddard
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1745 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Solomon Townsend

  Samuel Townsend

  Robert Townsend (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  William Townsend

  David Townsend

  Phoebe Townsend

  Audrey Townsend

  Sarah Townsend

• Sources for Samuel Townsend

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A115721.
  • ² New York: Long Island Cemetery Inscriptions, 1652-1910, Vol. 12, p. 79.
  • ³ Kilmeade, Brian and Don Yaeger, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, New York: Sentinel, a member of Penguin Group (2013), 70-71.
  • ⁴ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1116.
  • ⁵ 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), 39.
  • ⁶ 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.