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Excerpt from Townsend Townshend, 1066-1909: The History, Genealogy and Alliances of the English and American House of Townsend I am not certain that this letter will reach New Haven before you sail for Europe, and therefore reserve all details until I see you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Thomas Townsend (ca.1594-1677), the Puritan, was a direct descendant of Sir Robert Townshend (Sir Robert was a brother of Sir Roger Townshend, the Puritan baronet of Raynham Hall). Thomas immigrated during or before 1639 to Lynn, Massachusetts, and was a liberal Puritan. The "h" was returned to the spelling of the surname by Charles Hervey Townshend (1833-1904), a direct descendant from East Haven, who was a ship captain and an historian, and who visited Raynhan Hall in England. Descendants and relatives listed lived lived chiefly in East Haven and New Haven, Connecticut, with others living elsewhere in Connecticut, and in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and elsewhere.