William Townes II Family
Virginia

William Townes II
b. 20 Apr 1742 Amelia Co, VA [DAR application #530128]
d. 14 MAY 1825 in Cumberland Co., VA

m. Obedience Allen
1768 Amelia and Pittsylvania Co., VA
b.1 MAR 1747 in Goochland Co, VA
d. 1804 S. C.*
her father: Samuel Allen
her mother: Martha Archer

his father: William Townes Sr, England
his mother: Mary Childers
Children with Obedience Allen
Samuel Allen Townes b. May 11, 1773 d. 11 Apr 1826 (age 52)
 m. Rachel Stokes 21 Apr 1799
 (b. 20 APR 1779 d. 3 Aug 1850 aged 71)
Mary Townes*
 b. (?1777) Culpepper, Virginia d. 1 Sep 1815 Abbeville, SC m. Benjamin F. Jones
Margaret Townes b. Culpepper Co., VA* d. m.
William Allen Townes b. 11 MAY 1773 Culpepper Co., VA* d.11 APR 1826 m.
                               *records of Irving Grove III

1768, Edmond Taylor of Mechlenburg VA to William Townes of said county, wit. Thomas Glass, Ann Brown and Charles Kennon.   [Deed Book H,  Granville Co., NC 1765 - 68]

1770 - William Townes of Mecklenburg County, VA deed to Edmund Taylor of the same
place for land in Granville County, October 8, 1770 [Granville Co., NC. Deed Book 1, p. 177]

1775-76 -  William Townes is listed as a 2nd Leut. of the Virginia Revolutionary Army by the DAR.  Wife is listed as Obediance Allen. [DAR Index. p. 2962]

William Townes served in the Virginia Militia seeing service in Virginia and South Carolina.
2nd Lieut. Cumberland County, Virginia Militia.
William Townes after close of Revolutionary War removed to South Carolina settling in Greenville County - listed as head of family in Greenville District of S. C. in the census of 1790.
Later he returned to Virginia making his home in Cumberland County, where died in may 1825.
                                  [Nat. Soc. of the Sons of the Revolution. Nat. Number 53065]

TOWNES, WILLIAM, b. 20 Apr. 1742  Amelia Co., VA, d. after 1826, Pittsylvania Co., VA., m. 1771, Obedienace Allen, b. 1747, VA., d. 1804.  Service: Was 2nd Lieut. in Cumberland Co., Penn. Militia.  Children: Samuel, b. 11 May 1773, m. Rachael Stokes; Mary, m. Berry Jones; Martha, m. John M. Beth; --, m. Thomas Linton; William Allen. DESCENDANT:    LEAN, Mary Beth (Mrs. Wm. ), No. 530128. [A roster of Revolutionary ancestors of the Indian Daughters of the American Revolution: Commemoration of the United States of America Bicentennial, July 4, 1776. Vol. 1, page 644]

Lived in Virginia and moved to South Carolina in the 1790's.

In a footnote for the Ligon family of South Carolina,

"Genealogy of the Mays Family by Samuel Edward Mays, 1929, p. 187. William Townes had brothers John, Thomas, Henry and Samuel.  John and Samuel came over with James Townes.  William Townes settled in Amelia Co., VA, on the Appomattox River.  He was born in 1711, married Anne Wood or Childer", and died June, 1774.  They had issue beside Elizabeth, who married Blackman Ligon:  William; Thomas; Henry; John; Joseph; Balcott; Molly (Mary?) married William Pride; Nancy (Ann?) married Charles Jones; Lucretia Townes married 1st in Amelia Co., Va., March 20, 1769, Francis Robertson, and had issue: Mary; William; Louise; James; and possibly Anne. She married 2nd Tscharner de Graffenreid and had issue, Catherine Jenner who married William Calhoun. "
                                    [Ligon. p 493]

1820 -  US Census, South Carolina, Greenville Co. Series:

M33  Roll: 120  Page: 173  (only three houses away is Thomas Camp
Samuel Townes                      1    2    1    1    -    1    -    -    -    1   -    -
Series: M33  Roll: 120  Page: 169
Thomas Townes                     -     -    -     1    -    1   -    1    -    -   1   -
Series: M33  Roll: 120  Page: 133
John Townes                          -     -    -     -     1   -    -    -    1   -    -    - 

1773 - 1881-  In the following document Henry Keith Townes recorded the Bible pages for the Townes family. These were listed on the Genforum web pages by Elizabeth Blount from a typed copy made about 1950.

BIRTHS
[Note in hand of Henry Keith Townes? the name of Samuel was crossed-out, Samuel was the son of William Townes and Obedience Allen Townes. HKT?]
Samuel Townes was born May 11, 1773. Spottsylvania [crossed out] Virginia. [On other family charts, this person, b. 1773, is called Samuel Allen Townes, but distinctions are made below between those named Samuel.]
Rachel (Stokes) Townes was born April 20th 1779, Frederick County, Maryland
William Washington Townes, son of Samuel and Rachel Townes, was born February 12th, 1800.
Eliza P. Townes, daughter of Samuel and Rachel Townes, was born March 9, A. D. 1802
Henry H. Townes, son of Samuel and Rachel Townes was born Sept. 4th A. D. 1804
Samuel Allen Townes, son of Samuel and Rachel Townes, was born Dec. 23rd A. D. 1806
George Franklin Townes, son of Samuel and Rachel Townes was born June 9th A. D. 1809
John Allen Townes, son of Samuel & Rachel Townes was born July 26th A. D. 1812
William Augustus Townes, son of Samuel & Rachel Townes was born January 31st A. D. 1822.
Maria Louisa Blassingame, daughter of Eliza and Wm. E. Blassingame was born 17th February 1819
Catherine Floride Townes, daughter of Henry H. and Lucretia A. Townes was born Nov. 21st 1827.
Martha Ann Townes, daughter of Henry H. & Lucretia A. Townes was born December 27th 1828
Samuel Townes, son of George F. and Elizabeth A. Townes, was born November 29, 1839.
Alexander Sloan Townes, son of George F. and Elizabeth A. Townes, born the 20th of February 1842
Ella, daughter of G. F. and Elizabeth Townes, born 4th of March 1845.

DEATHS

William Washington Townes, son of Samuel and Rachel departed this life March 6th 1803.
Samuel Townes departed this life April 11th 1826, aged fifty-two years and eleven months.
Martha Ann Townes, daughter of H. H. and L. A. Townes died 31st August 1835.
Anna Maria, daughter of H. H. and L. A. Townes died 16th October 1839
Sam?l A.,only son of H. H. and L. A. Townes died 2nd of October 1840, aged 9.
         The darling of his parents and beloved by all who knew him.
Samuel Townes son of George F. and Elizabeth A. Townes died March 27, 1844.
Rachel Townes, wife of Samuel Townes departed this life August 3rd, 1850, aged 71 years, 3 months and fourteen days.
Eliza Paul Blassingame, daughter of Samuel & Rachel Townes, departed this life October 11th 1857, aged 55 years, seven months and two days.
John Allen Townes, son of Samuel & Rachel Townes departed this life January 1st 1862, aged 49 years, five months & 6 days.
Henry H. Townes, son of Samuel & Rachel Townes died 30th May, 1849, aged 44 years, 8 months and 26 days.
William Augustus Townes, youngest son of Samuel & Rachel Townes departed this life Sunday 6th of January 1878, aged 56 years.
George Franklin Townes, fourth son of Samuel and Rachel Townes departed this life on Saturday, April 11th, 1891, aged 81 years, 10 months and 3 days.

MARRIAGES

Samuel Townes married Rachel Stokes 21st April A. D. 1799.
William E. Blassingame married Eliza Paul Townes April 21st 1818 [there is a family tradition of marrying on the same day as your parents]
Henry Hamilton Townes married Lucretia Ann Calhoun February 28th, 1827.
Samuel A. Townes & Miss Joanna L. Hall married 23rd January 1834.
George F. Townes and Miss Elizabeth A. Sloan married 13th November 1838
William Augustus Townes and Miss Fannie R. Seawell were married Marion [?], Perry County, Alabama, on the 21st April 1857.
Indianna [elsewhere, India], 3rd daughter of William Augustus & Fannie S. Townes, was married to John K. Earle, June 8th 1881.


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