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Profiles

  • Abigail Townsend (c.1680 - d.)
  • Abigail Maria Chamberlin (1828 - 1898)
    Residence: (1855 — Age: 26) Portage, Livingston, New York, USA* Residence: (1860 — Age: 31) Portage, Livingston, New York, USA* Residence: (1870 — Age: 41) Sandstone, Jackson, Michigan, USA* Residence:...
  • Abigail Townsend (c.1699 - c.1799)
  • Abigail Townsend (1661 - 1693)
    Links* the daughter of John “the shoemaker” Collins, of Boston
  • Abigail Jenkins (1730 - c.1753)

About the Townsend surname

Everett Asher Townsend was married 4 times total: after lidia balcom he married my great mother Nancy D York, had 4 children: Sara evalyn Townsend, Louise rachael Townsend, imos asher Townsend, and Amy ruby Townsend, unfortunately imos, and Amy died very young, and Sara died when she was only 29, my grandmother Louise lived til 2003.. He then married Ruth Weldon, then Dorothy, and last one Victoria...

<Townsend> as a Paiute surname

Perhaps due to the early explorer : Dr. Townsend who was led by Paiutes through the mountains after reaching Humboldt Sink: https://www.truckeehistory.org/the-first-pioneer-wagons-crossed-the...