Townsend--Townshend, 1066-1909: the history, genealogy and alliances of the English and American house of Townsend

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Preface

Through the kindness of John Ward Deane, A.M., the able editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, a genealogy of the Townshend family, compiled by the writer, was published in Vol. XXIX (January, 1873) and before the type was taken down a few pamphlets were struck off for distribution, with a most gratifying result, they having opened a wide field of search and investigation.

As frequent inquiries have been made for this "reprint" (now e.xhausted), a revised and considerably augmented second edition was printed by request, and this, the third edition, prepared for the press with a double motive ; to preserve material collected ; and to support evidence from papers still extant, which agree with data taken from original wills, letters and recorded documents, deposited in the British and American Archives. These materials, with the fragmentary evidence collected by others and put together here, have thrown much light on some of the early settlers of this country by the name of Townsend, and support a well-founded tradition which was handed down to the present generation by a great grand-son of Thomas Townsend or Townshend, who settled at Lynn, Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1637-8, and who knew many that had lived contemporaneously with him, as could now be proved, had not the early records of Lynn been destroyed or lost.

The object, therefore, of this compilation is to save in abridged form the materials for future use and reference in preparing a more complete volume; and as several persons who are interested in this work have asked for extra copies, and that notification be sent to others, the author has given those who he thought might be interested an opportunity to subscribe.

The writer takes this opportunity to thank for valuable assistance, his kinsman, the chief representative of the family. The Most Honorable Sir John Villiers Stuart Townshend, Bart, and 5th Marquis Townshend, of Raynham, Norfolk, and of Tamworth Castle, Warwickshire, England. He would also feel that he had been very remiss did he not mention the kind encouragement rendered by his Lordship's deceased mother, the late Dowager Marchioness Townshend, whose untiring efforts to assist his investigation among the British records prepared, and made easier for him, his path of research.

To T. C. C. Smith, Esq., of the Literary Department, Somerset House, London, for his very courteous attention, and to Charles Woodhouse, Esq., Registrar of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, Bury St. Edmunds, County Suffolk, also to G. R, Harman, Esq., Registrar of Her Majesty's Court of Probate. Norwich, Norfolk, England, the writer is indebted for similar favors ; to my old friend, the Hon. Alex. Hamilton, Jr., President of the Astor Library, N. Y. ; and to J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., of Hartford, Conn.; and last but not least, Professors VanName and Dexter of Yale College, and Horace Day, Esq., Secretary of the Board of Education, of New Haven, Conn.

Desiring to make a thorough investigation, the writer availed himself of the services of the late Col. Chester, D.C.L., etc., etc., who commenced to make an exhaustive research in the British Archives with a view to substantiate with positive evidence a tradition which has been so satisfactorily proved by numerous facts and circumstances. But just as he had reached a point that justified his giving a written opinion (as his letter shows), he was taken ill and died suddenly. May 26, 1882. In connection with this letter it seems proper to mention that in his last conversation with me while lying on his death bed, he said: "I am satified your traditional account is correct because I find it supported by many facts and circumstances — everything seems to point in the same direction, and if spared I still hope to find more to substantiate it." At another conversation he said, "if Thomas, the son of Henry Townsend of Geddings, had remained in England, I ought to have found some trace of him. I have no doubt, as your tradition states, he went to New England." If he did not, what became of this Thomas Townsend?

124 SouTHWARK Park Road, London,

S. E. England, March 10, 1882.

My dear Capt. Tozcnshend:

I duly received your letters and the Genealogical Chart sent in your last of the 23d Feb. This I am especially glad to have, and I should have been spared a good deal of labour if you could have sent it before.

I have been giving all the time I possibly could to your case, but have been much interrupted, and am not certain that I shall have done all I wish to by the time you reach here, but will endeavor to do so.

Of course the main point is the direct affiliation of your emigrant ancestor, and so far my impression is that it will have to be accepted on the strength of circumstantial rather than positive evidence. I am afraid that no record exists that will positively prove it. I cannot, of course, say what may yet be the results of my exhaustive researches, but, even if not decisive, I am sure that you will regard with some value the expression of my opinion concerning your own theory. I have no objection now to say that, so far as my investigations have gone, / see no reason to doubt its reasonableness and probable accuracy. I want to substantiate it if I can, and do not yet despair of doing so.

I am not certain that this letter will reach Nevir Haven before you sail for Europe, and therefore reserve all details until I see you.

Believe me, sincerely yours,

Jos, L. Chester.

Introduction

The Massachusetts Probate and other Records at Boston, Salem and Lynn, give evidence of relationship between the families of i homas Townsin, Townesende, Towenshend, or 1 ownshend, of Lynn (for in each way was this name spelled), and the families o John Newgate o Boston, and Robert Mansell, or Mansfield, of Lvnn This Mr. Newgate, an important citizen of Boston, representative and often selectman, was descended from the families of that name who in early times held estates at Holkham and neighboring parishes in the County Norfolk England a branch of which we find later residing at ■Homingsheath, near Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk He seems to have followed the occupation of a feltmaker, and had lived for many years previous to his emigration to New England in the parish of St. Olives in Southwalk, London Bridge, but after 1627, his name and family disappear from the parish register, and about 1630 we find among the Suffolk Fines, London that a certain John Newgate buys and records Oct. 6th, 1631 of Peter Beck and Anne his wife, an estate in the parish of Tymworth, which estate is recorded sold Feb. 3d, 1639, to Jane Bacon vvidow by a John Newgate alias Newdigate, and Anne his wife, whom we have no doubt are the same as the New England settlers whose children and relations often spelt their name Newdigate, as will be hereafter shown. , . , . -d

This John Newgate, in his last will, dated Boston May 8th, 1665, and proved Oct. 26th, following gives a legacy of "£io to my brother-in-law, Thomas Townsin, of Lyn, to be paid him within three years after my decease," and in codicil of same will, dated Sept. nth, 1665, he shows more than ordinary interest in his brother-in-law, as follows: "Further, my will is that Thomas Townsin, of Lyn, have his legacy above mentioned, within one year after my decease, and a bequest to the free schools of Boston, for the same amount, he makes void."

This Thomas Townesend had sons, lhomas,i Samuel,2 John.S and Andrew.^ He also may have had (by a first wife), 5 Robert of Portsmouth, 1665, when he signed as one of the supporters of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts; and daughter Liddia who married Lawrence Copeland, of Lynn, "Ye 12 10 mo. 1651," also, Eliz^abeth, married to Samuel Mariam, Dec. 22d, 1669, and also (perhaps) Mary, a member of Samuel Gardner's family, 1661. The records prove that he gave his property to his children when they became of marriage estate, and by deed, dated Jan. 1st, 1674, he gave to "youngest son Andrew, two acres of his town lot of eight acres in Lynn, situated on the south side the Mill street, lying westerly of the town highway that leadeth through the said field; the said highway being the easterly bounds, and the remainder of the homestead after the death of the said Thomas Townesend, and Mary his now wife; provided, the said Andrew, then unmarried, would continue to live with them and manager their property, they being disabled in a measure, through age ' to carry on their affairs." This Andrew Townesend died of camp fever, Dec. loth, 1692; his mother, his wife, and two of their children all dying of the same sickness, within a few days of each other, and the court appointed for administrators on his estate, their loving Uncte Samuel Townesend, of Winnesemet, and Samuel Johnson of Lynn; and for guardians of his children, their uncle Samuel, aforesaid, for Abigail and David the eldest and youngest, and for the others, viz: Thomas, Elizabeth, Andrew and Daniel, "their loving kinsman," Deacon Daniel Mansfield, who was son of Andrew (the town recorder), and grandson of Robert Mansfield, aforesaid. As we find frequently and for many generations since the settlement of Lynn, the christian name Andrew in the Townsend and Mansfield families, it is quite probable that the name came from the latter to the Townseuds. Blomfield, Norfolk, Vol. X, p. 423-4, mentions the Manor of Hayneford, near Norwich, with advowson of the church and other church lands and property in the same county, granted Oct. 2ist, 154s, to Andrew Mansfield, Esq., of the city of Norwich; also, same date, p. 438, lands in

1 The supposed eldest son married Mary, daughter ot Samuel Davis.

2 His son Samuel married Abigail, another daughter of Samuel Davis, and he leased one of Gov. Belllngham's farms at Winesemet or Chelsea, which continued In his family for more than 50 years. He also owned property in Boston (North end), and Charlestown and Rumney Marsh.

3 His son John, by Mary, his now (1669) wife. mar- Tied Sarah, daughter ot John Pearson, of Lynn, his Bear neighbor, who was formerly of Norwich, Norfolk. Eng. This John Townsend married secondly. Mehetable. daughter of Nicholas Brown, and sister of Elizabeth, wife ot Hannaniah Parker, of Redding, who had for second wife Mary Barsham. and .she married 2d. Deacon John Bright, of Watertown, son of Henry Bright, Jr.. whose family lived on the now (1882) site of the Angle Inn at Bury St. Edmunds. County Suffolk, and where he was born and baptized, as per

St. James' Parish Register. Dec. 29th, 1602, and emigrated to New England in 1630.

4 The youngest son, Andrew, by Mary ("my now wife, 1674"). married Abigail, daughter ot John Collins, ot Linn.

5 Thomas Townsend. Sr.. in deeds of gift to sons John and Andrew, mentions Mary, his now wife, they the father and mother of aforesaid, and as Thomas and Samuel are not mentioned as sons by wife Mary. It i.s supposed that he had a first wife by whom he had children born in England, and perhaps in New England, where she may have died, and the above Robert, Liddia, Mary and Elizabeth, perhaps her children. Tradition says, money was left this family, also Thomas Townsend was a relation of the 1st Lord Townsend. Now, we find by will of Sir Roger Townshend the Puritan Baronet, of Raynham. dated Jan. 1st 1637. a mention of £400 to children ot a Thomas Townsend. His 2d son, Horatio, In 1661, was created Baron Linn.

Newtown ; also, same date, p. 383-4, in Stanhowe (Calthorpe Manor), lands belonging to Thetford Priory, and in Vol. VII, p. 380, same date, this Andrew Mansfield had a grant of the Canons, Marshes, &c., in Marsham, and the same year, 154s. had license to alien it to Elizabeth Spelman, and her heirs. This Elizabeth Spelman was probably a sister of the famous Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman, who was the first Treasurer of the "Council of the New England Company," and by marriage, connected to the Townsend and Mansfield families. Andrew Mansfield, Esq., aforesaid, by will, dated at Norwich, Norfolk, Feb. 20th, IS53, leaves legacies to the church of St. Mary's Coslany within the city of Norwich, appoints wife Jane (a sister of John Eyre, Esq.,) E.xecutrix, and she in her will, dated April 24th, 1587, gave bequest to Thomas Hayes, of silver spoons; orders her body to be buried in the church of Haynesford, Norfolk, in "the North Chansel ne.xt the place my husband Andrew Mansfield hath burial," mentions the house she now dwells in at Haynesford, gives money to the poor of Haynesford, and 20.S. to the Parish of St. Mary's Coslany, aforesaid, makes numerous bequests, gives her property to grand-child, William LeGryce, and her niece, Alice LeGryce, the wife of said William LeGryce; mentions niece Spelman, nephew George Everton, Elizabeth Baypool, wife of John Baypool and especial good friend, Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Kt., Supervisor of her will, she gives £10. Appoints her grand-child, William LeGryce, and nephew, George Everton, E.xecutors of her last will and testament. This Andrew and Jane (Eyre) Mansfield, had an only daughter, Susan, who married Charles LeGryce, of Brodish, Norfolk, and they were the parents of the aforesaid William Le- Gryce, whose mother, Susan (Mansfield) Le- Gryce, was buried at Brodish, in 1564, and the said Charles, in 1572. The Manor of Aslacton, Norfolk. Blomfield tells us, was bought by Charles Le Gryce in 1561, and was granted after his death to Andrew Mansfield, of Norwich, a gentleman who was probably a near relative of the first Andrew Mansfield, and may have been father, uncle, or brother of the first Lynn settler of that name. There was a Charles' Grice, of Brantree, Mass., whose will in Boston Probate C!ourt, is dated Nov. gth, 1661, in which he mentions son David and children of his brother John and William Grice, son-in-law William Owen, of New England, the others all living in Old England, and he may have been of this family.

The first Andrew Mansfield, probably had other church lands granted him through his brother-in-law's (John Eyre) interest, and may have descended from Andrew, one of the sons of Sir Philip lilansell, or Mansfield, who came into England with William the Conqueror, and received the estates of his uncle. Sir Henry Harley, and the Manor of Oxmeath, in County Glamorgan, in South Wales.

Besides this Andrew Mansfield, of Hayneford and Norwich, we find in the will of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, of Stifkey, County Norfolk, in the State

Papers, Domestic— Addenda— pp. 541-4 No 61 dated June 4th, 1614, frequent mention of Sir Robert Mansell (or, as he signs his name, Mansheld), Kt., Vice Admiral, etc., who was married to Jane, sister to Sir Nathaniel, whose daughter Anne married Sir John Townsend, of Raynham, Kt., killed m a duel, and father of Sir Roger Townsend, ist Bart. He (Sir Robert Mansfield) was noted for his great skill and bravery and knowledge of marine affairs. He had a grant to make saltpetre and glass; was knighted at the taking of Cadiz, Spain, in 1598, and died without issue, probably at his house in Greenwich, soon after 1640. He was living, however, as a paper on file in the State Paper Office, London, proves, bearing his seal and arms, and dated April 30th, 1639. This Sir Robert was largely interested in the North and South Virginia Company, and was one of the council of the New England Company, and at their meeting at the Earl of Carlisle's Chambers in White Hall, April 2Sth, 1635, when they resigned the charter of New England (the Gorges Patent), saying that they have found by long experience that their endeavors to advance the Plantation of New England has been attended with great trouble and charge; have had trouble with the Virginia Company and parties who had lands granted them in Massachusetts Bay, and they have thought fit to publish their reasons to posterity for resigning the patent, etc. At this meeting was the President, the Lord Gorges, the Vice-President, Capt. Mason, the Marquis of Hamilton, the Earls of Arundell, Surry, Southampton, Lindsey.

Carlisle, Sterling, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Sir Kenelem Digby and others; also. Sir Henry Spelman, the Secretary of the Company. At the time Mount Desert Island was captured from the French by Capt. Samuel Argall, in 1634, it was granted to Sir Robert Mansfield, and called Mount Mansfield. He also was allotted a part of New England or North Virginia, as an old map now extant shows. Sir Robert's brother-in-law. Sir Nathaniel Bacon, married 2d wife, Dorothy, widow of Wm. Smith, of Winston, Norfolk, whose son, Sir Owen Smith, had Thomas, also of Winston, who died Jan. 6th, 1639, and his sister Mary, aunt of said Thomas, married Anthony Drury, of Besthorpe and Intwood, Norfolk, son of Anthony and Bridget (Spelman) Drury, and the father of Elizabeth Drury, wife of Wm. Newgate, who resided at Intwood, where died Anne (Calthorpe) Townshend, "late ye wife of Henry Townshend, Esquire, of Bracon Ash," and she was buried, according to the Intwood Register, Oct. 4th, 1629. She was eldest daughter of Bartram Calthorpe, Councillor of the Middle Temple, London, who was buried in Autringham Church, Norfolk. This Anne was co-heir to her sister Mary, wife of Edward D'Oyley, of Newton Trowse, Norfolk (2d brother of Edmund D'Oyley, of Shottesham), Dorothy, wife of Thomas Goodwyn, of Stoneham, Suffolk, whose daughter Dorothy married Edward Rockwood, son of Nicholas, of Euston, Suffolk. Margeret married Richard and Audrey married Lyonell, Goodrick (cousifis), of Cour.ty

Lincoln. Sir Thomas Gresham owned Intwood, and his daughter Anne was wife of aforesaid Sir Nathaniel Bacon, and as before mentioned, grandfather of Sir Roger Townsend, Bart., of Raynham, Norfolk, a noted Puritan, who with his mother-in-law, the Lady Vera, were firm friends of the Rev. John Davenport, of the New Haven Colony, as his letters abundantly prove, and of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn in the Massachusetts Colony; the latter having served as domestic Chaplain to the Bacon and Townsend families, and in compliment to these families and other settlers who were from the County Norfolk, England, who had chosen for their pastor the Rev. Samuel Whiting, this town's name was changed from the Indian one, Saugus, to Lynn, Nov. 25th, 1637, O. S. , • , -ru

Having shown on the paternal side Ihomas Townsend's connection with several parties interested in the early settlement of New England, a brief notice of the maternal side may interest. His mother was Margeret Forthe, the first wife of Henry Townsend, and a daughter of Robert Forthe, LL.D.. "Deane of the Arches," and a near cousin of Gov. Winthrop's first wife, Mary Forthe. This Margeret had an only brother, Thomas Forthe, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, who after his father's death in 1596 commenced to sell his estates at Lambeth, Streatham and Croydon, County Surrey ; and about the same time we find a Thomas Forthe (who may have been the same) buying estates at Southberg and Hingham, Norfolk, next estates occupied by Thomas Southwell, a brother-in-law to aforesaid Robert Forthe, and supervisor of his will, he having married for his third wife Mary, a sister of the said Thomas Southwell, the then widow of William Drury, LL.D., a cousin of Anthony Drury, of Intwood, Norfolk. This Thomas Forthe is called by Blomficld, yeoman, and may not be the same as called of the Middle Temple, Esquire, and in 1603, Edward Brown, Rector of Southberg, return 96 communicants, and that Thomas Forthe is patron. This Thomas Forthe died at Southberg, Aug. 22d, 1630. and his son Thomas is called by an inquisition, taken at Norwich, Oct. 22d, 1630. and a second, taken April 22d, 1634, next heir. We find by Robert Forthe's, LL.D., will and inquisition that he held lands and tenements in Surrey, Kent. London, Essex and Layham, County Suffolk, "where his grandfather once did dwell," that he mentions six acres of land in East Ham and other property held of the Arch Bishop, of Canterbury. The last mentioned Thomas Forthe was buried at Southberg, June 7th, 165s; appoints his wife Elizabeth, executrix, and Robert Long, of Remystone, County Norfolk, Esq., supervisor, of his will. In his father's will, John Sutton (probably clerk of Woodrising), his brother-in-law, is made supervisor, and the witnesses are Anthony Cooper and John Barrett._

These last three names appear afterwards in a list of settlers to New England, who came ovei in 1638 with the Rev. Robert Peck from Old Hingham, next parish to Southberg. Norfolk, and settled at New Hingham, on the south shore of Boston Bay. Another interesting fact in connection with Thomas Townsend, is the petition of Jane, wife of Joseph Armitage, of Lynn, asking to keep an ordinary or Inn (to the General Court in session, Oct. 7th, 1O43, and voted granted Oct. 26th, following). It is drawn up in the hand writing of the Rev. Samuel Whiting, and with thirty-four other signatures, bears Ihomas Townsend's autograph. It is the Court or Norman style of the day, and proves that he was used to the pen. In this petition he writes his surname Townsend; but in a previous one at Salem Court, "ye 30th loth mo., 1641," the name is spelt Towenshend; and again a Deposition in the Essex County Court Files, Vol. XIII, p. 62, dated ye 12th loth mo., 1661, Thomas Townesend's age is called about 60. From those and his well-drawn deeds of gift to his children it would seem that he was a man of good education for the times, and libera! in his views, and being a younger son he might have been educated for the church, and the quiet life he led after coming to New England would seem to make him a fit person to accept the position of Rector of a parish. These facts and his deposition wherein his name is mentioned, which nearly agree with the Bracon Ash register, gives great strength to the traditional account.

Another strong link in the chain of evidence is the will of John Newgate of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, "Maultster, whose family were from Horningsheath and Ickworth, next parishes to Nowton, where lived William Payne, Gentleman, sometimes Lord of this Manor, who was Executor of Henry Towneshend's, of Gedding, will. This John Newgate in his will, dated at Bury St. Edmunds, Oct. 12th, 1642, and proved in the Archdeaconal Court of Sudbury, Oct. 5th, 1649. by his wife Sarah, his Executrix, then the wife of Thomas Frost, gives the use of his property in the Long Bracklands, in the parish of St. James, to Sarah his wife, for life; then to brother Joseph Newgate, and then to his "brother John Newgate, now resident in the parts beyond the seas called New England, and his heirs forever." This John Newgate of New England, as has been shown, was brother-in-law to Thomas Townesend of Lynn, and uncle to Thomas and Samuel Townsend of Rumny Marsh, where Newgate was granted 150 acres, and subsequently bought Governor Winthrop s grant c: 150 acres, and other lands adjoining, increasing his estate here to about 500 acres, which his grandson Nathaniel Newdigate, sold to Colonel Samuel Shrimpton of Boston, whose cousin Epaphrijs Shrimpton of New England, married Rebecca (perhaps Forth), mentioned m will of Mary (perhaps Forth), widow of Joseph Marshall of London. Her will (Fox 121), dated 15th June, 1716. His will (Fagg 54), proved 17th March, 171S, and called cousin, also mentions uncles John, Thomas and Dannett Forth. This Dannett Forth had a daughter Mary, w'ifc of Francis St. John, son of Cromwell, chief justice, Sir Oliver St. John, and so connected with the Rev. Samuel Whiting's wife Elizabeth (his aunt), and the ancestor of the Duke of Manchester.

It is interesting to note that it was usual for respectable families in England, at this period, to use the alias, and such was the case with this branch of the Newgate family, for instance: the before-mentioned family in Fines, of Suffolk. The pedigree of Edmund Newgate alias Newdigate, of Holkham and Wighton, County Norfolk, recorded at College of Arms, London, in visitation of Norfolk for 1664, containing four generations, and signed Edm. Newgate als. Newdigate, and certified to, Aug. ist, 1876, by George Harrison, "Windsor Herald," and Edward Bellases, "Blue Mantle." The will of Nathaniel Newgate alias Newdigate, son of John Newgate, of Boston, Mass., who died at Greenwich, near London, and was buried, according to-the register of St. Olive's Parish, London Bridge. September 14th, 1668, and proved by his widow, then the wife of John Johnson, November 24th, 1679. The pedigrees of Newdigate, of Denton and HoU, Norfolk, drawn from original wills by the Rev. William Grigson, of Norwich, who ends his valuable report on the Newgates, saying: "I have seen it stated that this family of Newdigate were at one time called Newgate." — W. G. Now after carefully collecting and examining the evidence collected in Old and New England of the Newgates alias Newdigate, we have good reason to suppose that this before-mentioned John Newgate alias Newdigate, of Tymworth, was the feltmaker of Southwark, and that after years of prosperity he had about 1630 retired to the neighborhood of his birth, where he might enjoy quietly with his family the result of his efforts and industry; but his near neighbor. Sir Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrook, County Suffolk, Kt., then one of His Majesty's Privy Council, and a friend of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, may have persuaded him to assist its colonization by removing there with his family.

The Horningsheath and Hessett Parish Registers record several generations of the Newgate and Hoo families. Philip Newgate, father of John of Boston, was married Dec. 13th, 1578, at Hessett, the next parish to Rougham and Rushbrook, Suffolk to Joan Hoo, a dau. of Gualther (Walter) Hoo or Howe of Rougham Hall, of which he held the cooy-hold; also Freeholds in

Hessett, Beighton and adjoining parishes from his ancestors, as his will dated July 21st, 1587, proves. This Philip Newgate had a brother Robert Newgate, who married at Horningsheath, Elizabeth Buckenham or Bokenham, Feb. 21, 1581, and she was probably of the same family as Edmund Buckenham, sheriff of Suffolk in 1605, who by marriage with Barbara, a daughter of John Wiseman, Esq., of Great Thornham, was brother-in-law by marriage of her sister Mary, to Philip Forth, an uncle of Mary Forth, first wife of Governor Winthrop. Aforesaid Edmund Buckenham had son Sir Henry Buckenham, who was by wife Dorothy, eldest daughter of Guilford Walsingham, had a daughter Timothea, who married a Mr. Gardner of Essex, and a son John Buckenham, whose son Wiseman Buckenham, married Grace, second sister to Sir Symon D'Ewes, Bart. The before-mentioned Robert Newgate had with other issue, William Newgate, baptized at Horningsheath, April 14th, 1603, and who was probably the uncle's son mentioned in will of John Newgate of Boston, as married to his wife's sister, and then (1665) living in London, and to whom he leaves a legacy in amount equal to Thomas Townsend, his other brother-in-law of Lynn, fio. This William Newgate has been sometimes called the same who married Bridget, daughter of Anthony Drury of Intwood, Norfolk. But the one who married at Intwood was probably William, son of Edmund Newgate, alias Newdigate, of the family of Wighton and Holkham. It is however interesting to note that the Drury family of Beesthorpe and Intwood were near relations of the Drurys of Rougham, Suffolk, and from whom probably Walter Hoo held the copyhold of Rougham Hall, and they were also related to the Pepys family of Norfolk. Jerome (Fermor) Pepyes of South Creek, Norfolk, having by wife Frances, daughter of John Drury of Rougham, Suffolk, a son Fermor Pepys, who resided at Toftstrees, next Raynham, the seat of the Townshend family, and his nephew, Edward Pepyes of Broomsthorpe, Norfolk, and Middle Temple, London, married Elizabeth, co-heir of John Walpole, and she in her will, proved at Norwich, June 28, 1669. leaves with other legacies, a bequest to Cousin Newgate, who may have been of the Horningsheath family.

THE TOWNSHEND FAMILY

The Townsend or Townshend families of England and America are of mixed Saxon and Norman origin and of great antiquity in the County Norfolk, England.

Walter Atte Townshende, son of Sir Lodovic de Townshende, a Norman nobleman whom Collins in his Peerage of England puts at the head of this family, flourished soon after the Conquest. This Lodovic it seems married Elizabeth de Hauteville, sole heiress of the manors of Raynham ; daughter of Sir Thomas de Hauteville, of the famous family of de Hauteville or Havile, which family at this time appears to have been a most important one. They were of Norman extraction, and settling in the County of Norfolk became possessed of a considerable property said to have been granted them by William the Conqueror, a portion of which by this marriage came to the Townsend family.

We find the name in ancient deeds written thus: Ad-Finem-Ville. Ad-Exitum-Ville, Add- Caput-Ville. William Ad-Exitum-Ville. that is Townsend or Tunneshende, held considerable lands of the prior of Norwiche's lordship in Taverham, Norfolk, in the reign of King John, A. D. 1200. In the reign of Henry IH, A. D. 1217-72, lived Thomas Atte-Tunneshende, of West Herling; and in 1292 lived William Atte-Tune'sende. In '304. John, son of Thomas Atte Tunnesende, died, leaving Alice his widow and William his son, who was married in 1306. This family was possessed of valuable estates, and their seal was a chevron between three escalop shells, the arms of the family to this day.