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| Birth: | 18 Mar 1598/99 in Yarmouth, England |
| Death: | 1672 |
| Sex: | M |
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| Joanna Blessing (Wife) b. Unknown
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| Marriage: | 1620 |
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 Rebecca Towne b. 21 Feb 1620/21 in Great Yarmouth, England
- John Towne b. 16 Feb 1622/23 in Great Yarmouth, England
- Sussanah Towne b. 20 Oct 1625 in Great Yarmouth, England
 Edmund Towne b. 28 Jun 1628 in Great Yarmouth, England
- Jacob Towne b. 11 Mar 1631/32 in Great Yarmouth, England
- Mary Towne b. 24 Aug 1634 in Great Yarmouth, England
- Joseph Towne b. 3 Sep 1648 in Salem, Essex Co., MA
- Sarah Towne b. 3 Sep 1648 in Salem, Essex Co., MA
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Individual:
Estate of William Towne of Topsfield
Essex Probate Docket # 27923
Administratation granted 24:4:1673 to Johana Towne on the estate of Wm Towne, her late husband, and she was to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records 5:66
Petition for settlement of a small estate left the undersigned by their father, who died ten years ago leaving no will, but left his estate in the hands of their mother who was appointed admininistratrix and the estate remained unsettled until her death, and now they desire that the following division may be allowed: the land to be divided equally to his three sons, Edmund, Jacob, and Joseph and the moveables equally to the three daughters, Rebecka, Mary and Sarah; also the three brothers to pay all debts now due and what charges shall after arise in settlement of the estate to be equally borne by all six. Adted Jan 17, 1682.
Signed by Mary (her mark) Towne relict of Edmond
Jacob Towne
Josep (his mark) Towne
Francis (his mark) Nurs with the consent of Rebeka
Mary (her mark) Esty, formerly Mary Towne
Sarah (her mark) Bridges.
Witness:
John How
John Pritchet
Allowed by the court at Ipswich April 10, 1683
Source: Ipswich Deeds, vol4, page 515
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WILLIAM2 TOWNE (John1) was baptized in the church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on March 18, 1598/9. He was married to Jone (Joanna) Blessing on April 25, 1620, in the same church, where, between 1621 and 1634, their first six children were baptized. Inasmuch as the name Blessing has not been found after considerable search in the Norfolk County records at Norwich and as the marriage record of "Jone" is the unique instance of the name in the parish register at Yarmouth during the period searched (1558-1611), it would seem probable that she was a foreigner, many emigrants from Germany and the Low Countries having been attracted to Yarmouth by the herring fisheries in the sixteenth century. A general search for the name in records covering all England has been fruitless, and families named Blessing now living in the United States claim a German origin.
The first record of William Towne in America appears in the town book of Salem in 1640 when he was granted "a little neck of Land right over against his house on the other side of the river." In the same year he sued John Cook in what seems to have been a boundary dispute and obtained a verdict and costs. It is probable that Towne was in Salem some years before 1640, however. The list of grants by the town to that portion of its territory called the North Fields is undated and the best opinion seems to indicate that the grants were made before 1635, when the town records begin. William Towne's name appears on this list, and it was in the North Fields that he lived.
In 1651 Towne purchased land in the neighboring town of Topsfield from William Paine of Ipswich. This farm contained forty acres "part of which is plow land, another part is meaddow, another part is upland unplowed, all lying together," bounded by William Howard toward the east, Walter Roper on the north and a "Sertaine River" toward the south or southwest. There were also included two acres on the south side of the river.
He sold his Salem property to Henry Bullock in 1652 and bought additional land at Topsfield in 1656. In 1660 in testifying in a lawsuit his age was estimated at three score years.(*) He was made a commoner of Topsfield in 1661, and his wife was dismissed from the Salem church to that of Topsfield in 1664. On the occasion of the marriage of his son, Joseph, to Phebe Perkins, daughter of Deacon Thomas Perkins, in 1663, William Towne deeded two-thirds of his real property to Joseph, with whom he and his wife doubtless lived for the remainder of their days.
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- Title: Probate Records Essex County
Media: Official Document
- Title: The Ancestry of Lieut, Amos Towne 1737-1793
Media: Book
Page: page 4
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