When Joseph Townsend was born in 1728, in Bedminster Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Townsend, was 30 and his mother, Ruth Parsons, was 26. He married Elizabeth Dillon in May 1757, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 10 February 1811, in Bedminster Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived at the extremity of a village, from Middle English toun(es)ende. Compare Town . There may have been some confusion with Townson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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