Individual Details

Daniel Townsend Jr.

(Abt 1753 - 28 Mar 1778)

The parentage of this Daniel Townsend is unknown due to lack of evidence. He had previously been linked to Daniel Townsend and an assumed first wife, since he didn't marry Hannah until 1752. But Daniel and Hannah filed their marriage intentions in North Yarmouth, Maine in 1752 which at that time included included several towns which now are Freeport (separated in 1798), Pownal (separated in 1820), Cumberland (separated in 1789), Harpswell (separated in 1789). In 1760 Pownalboro included Dresden, Alna, Wiscasset and Perkins. Note: Daniel & Hannah were in Dresden prior to moving to Vassalborough (that part which is now Sidney) as did Mathew Hastings, my ancestor, whose daughter Sarah Hastings married Dodivah Townsend (Reynolds 2009).

Daniel, Jr, born about 1753 most likely in Maine (Portsmouth New Hampshire 1740 (Fisher's Soldiers, p. 799) this birth information belongs to a different Daniel Townsend): died Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 5 March 1778 as a soldier. He was of Vassalborough when he enlisted for 3 years at Bellingham, Massachusetts (Clarence Stewart Peterson, Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783 [1967], hereafter Rev War Known Dead, p. 167; MS&S 15:935): married Hallowell 29 December 1774, Sarah Ingles Butterfield (Vital Records), born 1 October 1756, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Snow) Butterfield (Vital Records), died Sidney 20 May 1845 ae 88 years 7 months (Vital Records; g.s. Longley cemetery). She married (2) Vassalborough 21 June 1780, Nathan Sawtell of Vassalborough (Vital Records), born Groton, Massachusetts 24 February 1758, son of Moses and Elizabeth (Merriam) Sawtell. Daniel's name appears on the tax roll of 1772 in Hallowell (Charles E. Nash, The History of Augusta [1904], p. 117). He was voted hogreeve in Vassalborough 20 March 1775 (Town Records). His estate was probated 15 June 1779 (Lincoln county Probate 2:159-69, 240-44). Daniel's son, identified in the deeds as Dodivah Townsend 2nd, asserted on 7 December 1846 that he was the 'only surviviong child' of Daniel and Sarah townsend as was thus entitled to his father's pension (Revolutionary War Pension #W24479) (Reynolds, 306-307)

Events

BirthAbt 1753Maine, United States
Marriage16 Jun 1772Hallowell, Lincoln, Maine, United States - Sarah Ingles Butterfield
MilitaryAbt 1777American Revolution
Death28 Mar 1778of camp fever - Valley Forge, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Probate15 Jun 1779Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine, United States

Families

SpouseSarah Ingles Butterfield (1756 - 1845)
ChildDodivah Townsend 2nd (1775 - 1852)
ChildDaniel Townsend (1777 - 1829)
FatherDaniel Townsend Sr. (1727 - 1793)
MotherHannah Bibber (1732 - )
SiblingAbigail Townsend (1754 - )
SiblingRobert Townsend (1756 - 1846)
SiblingDodivah Townsend (1765 - 1833)
SiblingRebecca Townsend (1767 - )
SiblingHannah Townsend (1769 - )
SiblingBetsy Townsend (1778 - )

Notes

Birth

The Daniel born in 1740 in New Hampshire Colony, Portsmouth, is a different Daniel from the son of Daniel and Hannah Townsend.

Military

Daniel signed up for 3 yrs. in the Army in the American Revolution.

Death

Daniel Townsend, his son, [of Daniel Townsend Sr] who was the father of Dodivah Townsend and the grandfather of Reuel Townsend, died of camp fever in the army before Ticonderoga, in 1777 (North 95).

Probate

Probate records of Lincoln County (pp. 159-160) show that on June 15, 1779, John Bowman, Judge of Probate, wrote a letter to Sarah Townsend giving her power to administrate Daniel's estate. Probate documents dated March 7, 1780 show that Sarah Townsend made an oath of inventory. An account was filed on June 19, 1782, a date when the administratrix became the wife of Nathan Sartell (Sawtell) (Vol. II, 246; Patterson, loc. cit.). The inventory of Daniel Townsend's estate was taken by Abiel Lovejoy on June 7, 1785 (Vol. III, 42; Patterson, p. 138).

Endnotes

1. Reynolds, Beatrice Kay. "Daniel Townsend." Maine Families in 1790 v : 5 Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 26 . Ed. Joseph C. Anderson, II, Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 1996., p 306.

2. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).

3. Reynolds, Beatrice Kay. "Daniel Townsend." Maine Families in 1790 v : 5 Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 26 . Ed. Joseph C. Anderson, II, Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 1996., p 306.

4. North, James W., The history of Augusta, from the earliest settlement to the present time : with notices of the Plymouth Company, and settlements on the Kennebec : together with biographical sketches and genealogical register. (Augusta Me.: Clapp and North, 1870, 1033 pgs.), p. 95.

5. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).

6. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).