Col Richard TOWNLEY^[1]

1648 - 1711  (63 years)

• Name	Richard TOWNLEY
  Prefix	Col
  Born	1648	Littleton Place, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1683
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	1711	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey
  Person ID	I34868	Main
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Nicholas TOWNLEY,   b. 1611, Catherall, Lancashire, England ,   d. 3 Jun 1687, Littleton Place, Middlesex, England  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Joanna WHITE,   b. Abt 1615, Notham, Sussex, England ,   d. 3 Jun 1687, England  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Family ID	F12264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth SMITH,   b. Abt 1643, Smithtown, Suffolk, Long Island, New York ,   d. Bef 23 Jan 1712, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Married	1685	New Jersey   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Catherine TOWNLEY,   b. Abt 1671, New Jersey ,   d. 1720, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey  (Age ~ 49 years)   2. Charles TOWNLEY,   b. 1686,   d. 2 Sep 1756  (Age 70 years)   3. Effingham TOWNLEY,   b. Abt 1690,   d. ?   4. Sarah TOWNLEY,   b. 1685
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F12048	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 1711 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Was one of the Privy Council of deputy governor Lord Neil Campbell in 1686. He had been previously married and had at least one daughter, Sarah, wife of John Shackmaple, of New London, Conn., who was collector, surveyor, and searcher for that Colony. —— from "History by Mrs. C.W. Conger": Richard Townley, Esquire, eighth s/o Nicholas and Joanna Townley, came over [to America] in the retinue of Lord Effingham Howard, his kinsman and patron, who was one of the early governors of the province of Virginia. He settled at Elizabethtown [New Jersey], where he became an important citizen, and where many of his descendants remain. We have no account of his wife's name, but it is fancied that she was the beautiful Jewess who is said to have bequeathed to her descendants the aquiline Townley nose. From "A Discovery Concerning the Townley and Warner Families of Virginia" by Mary Burton Derrickson McCurdy (originially publishd in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, reprinted in Genealogies of Virginia Families, indexed by Thomas Hollowak, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, 1981) p.538: Towneley Hall is now a museum owned and operated by the city of Burnley, Lancashire, since its relinquishment early in this century by Lady O'Hagan...Colonel Richard Townley, an eighth son in the Royal branch of Towneley of Towneley, came to Virginia in 1683 in the suite of the Earl of Effingham, governor of Virginia. The next year he went to New Jersey, where he remained, and in 1685 became the third husband of Elizabeth Smith Lawrence Carteret, widow of the governor of New Jersey. It was from Colonel Richard Townely that all the American Townleys have been thought by some to have originiated. A complete genealogical series on his descendants was published in the "Jersey Genealogy" columns of the Saturday issues of the newark (NJ) Evening News between September 12, 1903, and December 19, 1903.

  
  

• Sources

  [S93] COX. The Cox Family in America, Cox, Rev. Henry Miller, (New York, 1912). [S47] New England Marriages To 1700, Torrey, Clarence Almon.