MOWATT.     James W. Mowatt, the first member of this family of whom as have any definite information, was born near Newburg, New York, died in Fishkill Landing, New York, aged eight years.  He was a son of a farmer in Westchester County, New York, whose Christian name is unknown. He was a millwright by trade, a Methodist in religion, having been one of the trustees of the church in Fishkill Landing.  He married Miriah Croft, of Peekskill, New York, died aged fifty-three years.  Children:  1. James.  2. Hester, married James McFarlane, now living in Brooklyn, New York: children: James, Emma, Theodore, William, Harriet, Lucy, Annie.  3. John. 4. Wines.  5. Delia, deceased. married Nicholas Hopper, deceased.  6. Harriet, deceased, married John McClair, deceased.  7. August W., of whom further.  8. Theodore.  9. William.  10. Elizabeth.  11. Helen B., now living in Fishkill Landing; married Eliah Saunters.

          (II) August W., son of James W. and Miriah (Croft) Mowatt, was born about 1843, died in Fishkill Landing, New York, November 17, 1911, aged sixty-eight years.  He was a carpenter and builder by trade.  He married Sarah (Vought) Saunters, born in Cornwall, New York, now living in Fishkill Landing, New York. 

MATTHEWS.     Henry Matthews, the founder of the family in this country, was born in Sheffield, England, and was a son of Joseph and Frances (Baker) Matthews, who children were: 1. George.  2. Annis.  3. Joseph.  4. John.  5. Alfred.  6. Henry, and 7. Sarah.  Henry Matthews emigrated to this country in 1854, and settled in Mattewan, New York, where he was employed in the cutlery works, removing with them in June, 1856, to Walden, New York, and retiring in 1908.  For several years prior to the Civil War he was a sailor, so on the outbreak of hostilities he joined the United States Navy, and served in the blockading squadron under Admiral Farragut in 1861-62, being mustered out of the service in Boston, 1862.  He is a member of the Fairchild Post, No. 564, Grand Army of the Republic.  After the war he returned to Walden where he now resides, and where he has been for twenty-five years an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

          Mr. Matthews married (first) Caroline Patrick, of Walden, and (second) Mary E. Haywood, of Walden He married (third) Charlotte, daughter of Frederick and Wilhelmina (Miller) Cruger, of Farmingdale, Long Island.  Her father's children were:  1. Frederick.  2. Charlotte, of previous mention.  3. Winifred.  4. William, married Jane Ogilvey, child: Thomas J.  5. Pauline, married Otto Schultz.  6. Augustus.  Children of Henry Matthews, all by second marriage, born in Walden, New York.  1. Caroline, married J. W. Mason, children: i. alice, ii. Mary E., iii. J. W.  2. Sadie, married R. d. Whitmore, of Walden; children:  i. Lawrence M., ii. Roscoe.  3. William J., now living in Mount  Vernon, New York.

HOWARD.    This name has been a sore puzzle to etymologists.  The termination, ward, indicates some office and is equivalent to "keeper," or "custos."  Thus Milward was originally the designation of the keeper or guardian of a mill (probably some manorial or monastic mill); Kenward, the dogkeeper, or more properly perhaps, Kineward, cow-

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keeper; Aylward was the ale-keeper; Durwood, a porter or doorkeeper; Woodward, the forest keeper; and so on. Howard is supposed by some to be identical with Hayward, the keeper of the herd of cattle belong to some town, and by others to have been originally Hogkeeper, though antiquaries are not agreed as to the meaning of the first syllable.  Other derivations have been found for the name, which has been borne by several noble families in England.  Some see similarity in it with Hereward, a Saxon name borne by one of the soldiers who resisted the invasion into England of the Norman despots under William the conqueror.  A writer in a British review says that some of the families bearing the name of Howard in England "may be Saxon, and may be Danish," at least in regard to the ancestors from whom they derive their surnames.  Lower, an authority on British surnames, says that these families are more probably of Norwegian origin.  Havard or Haavard was a common personal name among the Northmen.  "It appears," says Laing, another British authority, " to be the English name of Howard and left by them in Northumberland and East Anglia." 

          Some seventeenth century genealogists labored hard to prove a Norman origin for this prominent family in English history, but it would appear that authentic records bearing on it no further than the thirteenth century when the Howards rose into eminence in the county of Norfolk, though Houardus, who figures as an Essex under tenant of Domesday, may be cited on that side.  The name, borne by various distinguished men in America, is found among the early colonists of New England, two of whom are brothers, John and George Howard.  John always write his name Haward, and do all his descendants until after 1700, and the early town records conform to this spelling, but for nearly two hundred years the name has invariably been written Howard.  It is worthy of remark that the two names Hayward and Helward, which have always been pronounced alike, Howard.  They were perhaps the same originally, as regards the surname an its derivation from a common ancestor, and both Hayward.  Whether the family that follows was in any way connected with the older American families of Howard in the country of their common origin can of course only be a subject of surmise. 

          (I) Charles Howard, the progenitor in England of the Howard family here dealt with, was born in Lancashire, England, about the year 1827, died in Lancashire, about 1805.  He was by trade a plush cutter and was engaged in a factory turning out velvets of various kinds.  The conditions of a life in a manufacturing town in England were neither actually good nor did they hold out much promise in those days, and Charles Howard probably contemplated at various times a voyage to America in search of fortune.  Had he lived longer he would probably have done so, for there was a general exodus to these shores going on at that time both from England and Ireland.  It was left to his sons to do what the father was unable to accomplish, and Charles Howard continued while he lived at the not greatly rewarded occupation of working in a Lancashire factory.  He married, about the year, 1856, mary, daughter of John Kershaw, living in the same neighborhood in Lancashire, England.  Mary (Kershaw) Howard came to America, with her son and died in Paterson, New Jersey.  Children:  1. Charles E., of whom further.  2. Sarah, born about 1859, married John Cuddy, of Yonkers, New York, there being seven children. 

          (II) Charles E., son of Charles and Mary (Kershaw) Howard, was born in Lancashire, England, June 30, 1857.  He came to America at the age of three years, and his youth was spent in various parts of New York State.  He went to Walden when he was twenty, and he has been in the town ever since. He was educated in the various public schools of the neighborhood where he was brought up, and was quickly able to turn his hand to various trades.  Mr. Howard is a well-known figure in Walden, New York, where he is respected by everybody as a highly intelligent and successful business man.  He has not sought not been elected to any public office though he takes a keen interest in the various public questions of the day, whether in regard to the town, state of nation.  His main interest, however, is his business from which he has drawn considerable profit ever since he set-

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tled in Walden.  He married, in 1877, Maggie Mullen, of Brunswick, Ulster county, New York, born March 7, 1853, daughter of Cornelius Mullen, of whom further.  The children of Charles E. and Maggie (Mullen) Howard are:  1. Robert M., born May 1, 1878.  2. Frederick, born January 2, 1881.  3. James K., born December 9, 1883.  4. Charles E., Jr., born July 18, 1888.  5. John K., born August 25, 1892, died in 1908. 

          Cornelius Mullen mentioned above, father of Mrs. Maggie (Mullen) Howard, lived at Brunswick, New York.  The surname Mullen is an anglicized form of Maolain, and is usually found in conjunction with either the prefix O or the prefix Mac.  Maolain was the baptismal name of a general of gallowglasses, lord and chief over a considerable territory in Ireland, who was slain in the battle of Clontarf, A. D. 1014, when Brian Born or Brian Boroimhe, the high monarch of Ireland, defeated the Danes in a memorable encounter.  The descendants of this Maolain assumed his name as a family name prefixing it by O (descendant) or Mac (son or descendant) to indicate that he was an ancestor whom they chiefly delighted to honor. This Maolain was himself the grandson of Conor, the brother of Dathi, on the Concannon pedigree, both of them sons of Dermod Fionn or (Dermot the Fair), the thirtieth Christian king of Connaught.  

          Cornelius Mullen married Maria Terwilliger, by whom he had seven children:  1. Selah, married Mary Anderson, of Wallkill, Ulster County, New York, children, all born in Walden, New York:  i. Cora, ii. Edgar C., iii Selah T., iv. Willett. V. Lizzie M.  2. Philip, married Elizabeth Stokes, of Ulster County, New York: children, all born in Walden:  i. Annie, ii. Ruluth, iii. George, iv. Frank.  3. Matthew, married Sarah M. Bundage, by whom he has one son, Matthew, born in Gardiner, Ulster county, new York, where the family still reside.  4. Maria J., married John M. Upright: children, all born in Gardiner, Ulster County, New York:  i. Levi B., ii. Catherine,  iii. Gussie, iv. Ola May, v. John. Vi. Annie, vii. Jennie, viii. Ruluth.  5. Simon, married Emma Decker, of Walden, new York; he is now deceased.  6. Cornelius, married Adelia Brown, of Walden New York; children:  i. Jessie, ii. Gussie, iii. Frank, iv. Ada, v. Edna, vi Henry, all born in Walden, New York.  7. Maggie, married Charles E. Howard. 

          Cornelius Mullen died in 1854.  His widow, Maria (Terwilliger) Mullen, married (second) Hyram Van Vliet; Children:  1. John B., born at Brunswick, new York; married Ida Van Steanburg: children; 1. Ella, 2. Harry, 3. Bert, 4. Nora, 5. Jessie, 6. Ethel, 7. Irving, 8. Edith;  the family now live at Mitchell Corners, a few miles out of Walden, New York.  2. James L., also born at Brunswick, New York. 

LOUNSBURY.     Richard Lounsbury, the immigrant ancestor came from England and settled in New York province before 1672.  He was an early settled and proprietor of Peningo Neck and is mentioned in the records of Rye, Westchester County, New York, as early as 1672.  He owned rights in the town from 1673 to 1682.  He sold his land, but afterward returned and owned land on Budd's Neck, which he bequeathed to his wife, Elizabeth, and his two sons.  His will is dated January 2, 1690.  His son Thomas had purchased rights in White Plains.  Richard Lounsbury came in 1643 from Leyden, Holland, and settled in Esopus, Ulster County, removing thence to Rye.  He was a native of Yorkshire, England.  He resided for a time in Stamford, Connecticut.  Children:  1. Thomas.  2. Michael, of whom further.  3. John, of  Rye.  4. Richard.  5. Henry. 6. Mary.

          (II) Michael, son of Richard Lounsbury, was born about 1580, died January 20, 1730-31, at Stamford, Connecticut.  He married, June 10, 1707, Sarah Lockwood, daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, born September 10, 1634, died May 12, 1688, and his wife, Sarah Ferris, daughter of Geoffrey Ferris.  Jonathan was a son of Robert Lockwood, the immigrant.  Michael Lounsbury bought land in Stamford in 1702, at Pepper Ridge near Taunton.  Children, born at Stamford:  1. And 2. Elizabeth and Sarah, twins, born June 13, 1708. 3. Michael, January 23, 1710, died November 16, 1730.  4. Jemima, born March 17, 17--.  5. Monmouth, born December 20, 17--.  6. Joshua, July 1, 1716.  7. Joshua, July 1, 1716.  8. Nehemiah, of whom further..  9. Abigail, September 11, 1719.  10. Jonathan, October 20, 1721.

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bury, was born December 23, 1717, and died in 1790.  He married, February 8, 1744-45, Sarah Webb, who was born in 1725.  He settled in Bedford, Westchester County, New York, and died there.  Nehemiah Lounsbury and Thomas Brown were executors of the LEWIS--FORTY-EIGHT will of Jacob Brown, of Bedford, who bequeathed to Jeremiah Lounsbury, his will being dated May 13, 1760, and proved June 2, following.  Jeremiah and Nehemiah Lounsbury witnessed the will of Stephen Hoyt, of Bedford, February 7, 1770.  Among Nehemiah's children was Stephen, of whom further. 

          (IV) Stephen, son of Nehemiah Lounsbury, was born in Stamford, Connecticut, or Bedford, New York, in 1758.  He was a soldier in the Revolution in the Second Regiment, Westchester County, Colonel Thomas Thomas (p. 208, New York in the Revolution).  He died in 1840 at Bedford.  He married Sarah Raymond, who was born in 1705, at Bedford, and died February 27, 1852, daughter of Captain James Raymond, who was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, October 2, 1729, and died at Bedford, New York, January 11, 1796, and his wife, Susannah (St. John), who was born June 5, 1735, at Norwalk, and died February 18, 1774, at Bedford, the daughter of Moses and Mercy (Olmstead) St. John.  In 1790 Stephen Lounsbury was living in Bedford, according to the first federal census, and had in his family two males over fourteen, two males under that age, and two females.  He was a farmer, and a Whig in politics.  He died and is buried at Croton, New York.  Among  his children was John, of whom further.

          (V) John, son of Stephen Lounsbury, was born at Mount Airy, New York, and received a common school education.  He followed farming at Mount Airy.  He married Sarah Wood, daughter of Leonard Wood, a farmer of Cortlandtown.  Children:  1. Benjamin.  2. William H., of whom further.  3. Sarah, married Alonzo Lounsbury, a farmer of Westchester County.

          (VI) William H., son of John Lounsbury, was born at Mount airy.  He was a farmer near Peekskill.  He married Malinda Bloomer, of Cold springs, Putnam county, new York, daughter of Benjamin Bloomer, a builder of that town.  Children, born in Peekskill:  1. Eliza.  2. Phebe S.  3. Gertrude M,  4. Milton Wise. Of whom further.  5. Henry L.  6. Irving J.

          (VII) Milton Wise, son of William H Lounsbury, was born at Peekskill, December 24, 1859.  He attended the public schools, but at the age of twelve left school to work on his father's farm.  He was the originator and is the president of Lounsbury & Sons Company, an important ice and contracting business, of which his sons hold the other offices.  His holdings are situated on Washington Street, Peekskill, reaching easterly one and one-fourth miles, nearly to the lands purchased by his father in 1860, and still occupied by his mother, brother and family.  He possesses many sterling qualities, as well as the form and feature characteristics of his forefathers.  Mr. Lounsbury is a member of Peekskill Lodge, No. 744, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; also of Peekskill Council, Royal Arcanum.  He and his family are communicants of the Second Presbyterian Church of Peekskill. 

          Mr. Lounsbury married Elizabeth Brown, of Yorktown, New York, born July 4, 1858, daughter of Oscar and Martha (Hunt) Brown.  Her father practiced farming, and was also a mason and builder.  Children: born in Peekskill:  1. Edward W., born March 10, 1886.  2. William I., born October 26, 1887.  3. Charles M., born May 30, 1889.  4. Frank Brown, born august 15, 1894, and 5. Bryan, born October 14, 1900.

BLELOCH.     William Adna Bleloch, son of George H. and Harriet M. (Andrews) Bleloch, was born in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, November 2, 1867.  He was still in his infancy when his parents removed from Rochester to Boston, Massachusetts, where they remained for six years.  they then went to Springfield, Massachusetts, where William A. received his preliminary education in the public schools of that city.  In 1881 he was sent to Mohegan Lake School, where he spent four years under Principal Wilcox, graduating in June, 1885.  While there he was a popular student, prominent in al the school organizations.  He caught on the baseball nine, was a lieutenant in the military battalion, played on the football eleven, was the champion skater of the

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school and was an all-around athlete.  When he left Mohegan he returned to his home in Springfield, and entered his father's factory.  There he learned the trade and the business of manufacturing sewing machine needles, which he thoroughly mastered in every detail.  In 1889 he went to Camden Arkansas, where he spent two years looking after some lumber interests which his father had acquired.  He then returned to Springfield, and was located in the needle factory until his father died in 1893.  Then he went back to "Flour City," the place of his birth, Rochester, and for the next several years he was not engaged in any business or professional pursuit.  In 1896 he entered the law office of Charles M. Williams in the Wilder Building, Rochester, for the study of Blackstone, and in 1897 he entered the New York Law School and spent one year there.  Then he came to Peekskill and finished his law studies in the office of John H., Baxter, where he remained three years.  He was admitted at Brooklyn to practice in the Supreme Court of this State on January 30, 1907, and in the United States district court, June 8, 1908.  Since those dates he has practiced law in Peekskill, his present office being located in the Lincoln Building.  Mr. Bleloch is a member of several fraternities.  He was one of the organizers and charter members of Peekskill Tent, No. 745, Knights of the Maccabees.  He was its commander for three years, has held other offices in it, and was its chaplain.  In Cortlandt Lodge, No. 34, Free and Accepted masons, he was initiated, January 9, 1908; passed, January 30, 1908; and raised, February 20, 1908.  At the election in December, 1908, he was appointed a member of the finance committee and served as such during the year.  In December, 1909, he was re-elected for another year, and now, 1912, is senior deacon.  He has also been active in lodge work, particularly in the fellowcrafts team.  In Mohegan chapter, No. 221, Royal Arch Masons, he was made a Mark Master Mason, October 18, a Past Master, November 1, a Most Excellent Master, November 15, and a Royal Arch mason, December 6, all in 1909.  He was appointed by High Priest Roake as master of the First Veil for 1910; Master of Second Veil, 1911, and now, 1912, Royal Arch Captain of Peekskill Council, No. 55, Royal and Select Masons.  He was Marshal, 1911, and Conductor of Council, 1912, and in June, 1910, Knighted in Westchester Commandery, Knights Templars.  He is a member of Bald Eagle Tribe, No. 264, Independent Order of Red Men; of Cryptic Lodge, No. 75, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and of Washington Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of America.  He has also been a member of Peekskill Council, No. 1945, Royal Arcanum, for some time, and for six years past a trustee of the Council, and now, 1912, Vice Royal.  Mr. Bleloch became an reserve member of Cortlandt Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, on April 1, 1901, and an active member of the Peekskill Fire Department on January 4, 1905, and received his exempt certificate, February 8, 1910.  In politics he has always been a Republican, and an active worker in the party.  At the town election on 1903 he was elected a town auditor; his vote was 2,012 to 2,160.  In  1907 he was re-elected for a third time, and his vote was 1,922.  Each time he was one of three Republicans chosen, his majority in each case being about four hundred.  After serving six years as town auditor, he was in October, 1909, nominated by the Republican convention for justice of the peace.  His opponent was Stanley Little, Mr. Bleloch received 2,272 votes and Mr. Little 1, 762.  For a number of years Mr. Bleloch was a member of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church at lake Mohegan, bur during the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Ferd. C. Iglehart, at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a member of that church.  Mr. Bleloch has a large circle of friends and acquaintances in Peekskill.  He is active in many of the community interests, is a member of the Board of Trade, and is enthusiastic in all work he undertakes.  In the next decade Peekskill will undoubtedly hear more of him.  On January 1, 1910, he was inaugurated justice of the peace of the town of Cortlandt for a term of four years, ending December 31, 1913, as successor of Charles Nassau Wells, who has served the towns o well upon the bench for the eleven years past. 

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on the corner of Washington street and Welcher Avenue, which Mr. Bleloch bought in 1901. 

TOWNSEND.     This name arises from the location of the first man who assumed it as a surname.  He evidently resided on the outskirts of some town, and the name originally appears in England as Atte Town's End.  The family of Townsend in American and England traces its ancestry to Walter Atte Townshende, son of Sir Lodovic de Townshend, a Norman nobleman who came to England soon after the conquest.  Lodovic married Elizabeth de Hauteville, heiress of Raynham, and daughter of Sir Thomas de Hauteville, a portion of whose property came to the Townsend family.  In 1200 we find one of the family, Willian Townsend (or ad exitemville), in Taverham, county Norfolk.  Thomas ette-Tunneshende (Townsend) lived in the reign of Henry III., 1217-72, at West Herling.  William Atte Tunesend lived in 1291; Thomas in 1714.  The family became prominent in Norfolk in the fourteenth century.    The coat-of-arms of this ancient family was a chevron between three escallop shells.  The family herein mentioned was composed of Quakers, who evidently left England because of religious persecutions.  This is one of the rare instances in which the ancient "three brothers story" is made good.  John, Henry and Richard Townsend, brothers, appear on Long island in the vicinity of what is now New York City at a very early date.  They were among those hardy and enterprising immigrants who persisted in establishing themselves in the midst of the hardships of pioneer life, to which was added the unkind treatment of their neighbors.  Her they met not only from the Dutch settlers, but from their English-speaking neighbors, the same persecutions which had drive them out of England.  One of the brothers, Henry, made himself especially obnoxious to his neighborhood by his persistence in proselyting for the sect of Friends, visiting houses and urging people to attend the meetings.  On this account he was fined eight pounds Flanders.  In 1657 and again on January 15, 1658, a fine of £100 was placed against him. 

          (I) John Townsend, who died at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in 1668, came from Norwich, county Norfolk, England, and resided in the immediate vanity of New York several years before 1645.  In that year he received with others, a patent from Governor Kieft for the town of Flushing.  He had previously established a home on the island, where he resided several years, but Indian alarms caused him and his neighbors to forsake their location and move nearer the older settlements.  He is alluded to by governor Stuyvesant as one of the principal inhabitants of Flushing who refused to contribute to the support of the churches maintained by the Dutch and English, and John Townsend was summoned to appear January 23, 1648, before the authorities.  Immediately following this all of the brothers removed to Warwick, Rhode Island, where they were honored and esteemed, filling various local offices and being members of the provincial assembly.  In 1656 John Townsend was one of the company which obtained a patent for the town of Jamaica, then called Rusdorp.  John Townsend settled at Oyster Bay in 1661; and bought a house on South street in February, of which he received a deed in October following.  He was also the possessor of two shares in the meadow on the north side, one share in Matinecock, one right to the meadow at the south, and twenty shares in the Great Plains.  He was probably then well advanced in years and soon retired from any activity in public affairs, the only office which he filled being that of overseer.  In 1663 he bought from Thomas Armitage the homestead adjoining his won on the south, and the records shoe that he subsequently purchased other parcels of land.  He was buried on his farm, his probably being the first body deposited in the graveyard at Fort Hill.  He married Elizabeth Montgomery, and had children:  1. John.  2. Thomas.  3. James,. of whom further.  4. Elizabeth.  5. Ann.  6. Rose.  7. Sarah.  8. George. And 9. Daniel. 

          (II) James, son of John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, was probably born in England, died in 1697-98, on Long Island, New York.  He resided on part of the paternal homestead at Oyster Bay, Long Island, until he sold \this and moved

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to what was known as the Cedar Swamp.  In company with his brother George he owned  a tract of land in the district which they called Norwich in honor of his father's native place, and presumably also his own.  He was a surveyor and was one of those appointed to lay out Unkoway and Letting's necks, and while residing at Oyster Bay was elected overseer.  He married (first) Elizabeth Wright; (second), October 16, 1677, Jane, daughter of Henry Ruddock, and (third) Delivered Pratt.  Children:  1. Job.  2. Thomas.  3. Daniel, of whom further.  4. Ruddock.  5. Joseph.  6. Joshua.  And 7. Ruemourn, born after the death of his father, and named in significance of the mother's grief at the loss of her husband. 

          (III)  Daniel, son of James Townsend, and probably child of his second wife, resided at Oyster Bay, where he died in 1724-5.  He married Freelove, daughter of Captain Samuel Dickenson.  They had sons:  1. John, and 2. Benjamin, of whom further. 

          (IV) Benjamin, son of Daniel and Freelove (Dickenson) Townsend, was born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, about 1715, and settled at Scarsdale, Westchester county, New York, where he was a farmer. His wife, Elizabeth, belonged to one of the Huguenot families, of New Rochelle, but her surname has not been preserved.  They had a son, Ruddock.

          (V) Ruddock, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Townsend, was born about 1740, on Long Island. He was a child when his parents removed to Scarsdale, where he passed his life engaged in agriculture.  No record appears of his wife.  He occupied the old homestead on Central Avenue, in Hartsdale, near the present Hartsdale Inn, during the Revolutionary War, the place being famous for a pitched battle held in its yard between the Tories and Whigs.  His children were:  1. Joseph, died on a farm near Bergen, new Jersey.  2. James (2), of whom further.  3. Sarah.  4. Peter.  5. Benjamin, married a daughter of Isaac Ward, of East Chester.  6. Freelove.  7. Elizabeth, and 8. Samuel, who resided on the homestead.

          (VI) James (23), son of Ruddock Townsend, was born in Scarsdale, in 1775, and resided at Hart's Corners, where he died October 16, 1855, aged seventy-eight years, and was buried.  He married Betsy Du Bois, a native of New Rochelle, who died in middle life, and is buried at her native place.  Children, all born in Hartsdale:  1. Margaret, died in Williamsburg, New York.  2. Elizabeth Ann, died in Williamsburg, New York.  3. Samuel B., of whom further.  4. Elijah T., a soldier in a New Jersey regiment, in the Civil War, killed in battle at Williamsburg, Virginia.  5. Herman, died in June, 1910, at Norwalk, Connecticut. 

          (VII) Samuel B., son of James (2) and Betsy (Du Bois) Townsend, was born in Hartsdale, June 4, 1825.  He was a farmer and proprietor of a country store at Hartsdale, a man of great energy and industry, noted as a maker of fine pickles.  He was well known for his charity and generosity.  He was a preacher in the Methodist Church, and preached at Rosedale, Hartsdale and White Plains.  He was a Republican in politics.  He married, at Hartsdale, October 16, 1843, Mary Ann Brundage, of Mount Pleasant, Westchester county, daughter of Elijah and Alena (Lambert) Brundage.  Children:  1. Samuel F., born November 6, 1844; married, June 16, 1906, Emma Louise Howe.  Child, Samuel F., (2), born in Hartsdale, February 22, 1910.  2. Josiah, of whom further.  3. Alvan, born october 31, 1850; married (first), April 12, 1871, Florence Hopper; (second), in 1890, Mary shaw; eight children by first marriage and one by second.  4. Elijah.  5. Euphemia F., born November 20, 1860; married, March 20, 1883, John Alexander Wade, who died in Danbury, Connecticut.  6. Benjamin S., born March 18, 1865; educated in Hartsdale public schools; bookkeeper and cashier for Brewster & Company, Broadway and 47^th Street, New York City, between 1888 and 1905; later telegraph operator at Harlem railroad; began a carriage-making business in Hartsdale in 1905; married December 25, 1892, Lavinia York;  Children: 1. Mildred Stevens, born march 20, 1900.  2. Benjamin Richter, born February 12, 1908.  7. George H., born June 4, 1867, a physician at Stony Creek, Connecticut; married, and had one child.  8. William, born December 17, 1868, died July 17, 1869. 

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February 12, 1890.  On his gravestone is the following:  "Let Lord Jesus come and take me home. Rest, Rest."  His wife, Mary Ann, born June 12, 1827, died December 31, 1900, and on her tombstone is inscribed;  "I’ll soon be on the other side of the river. Thy will, not mine, be done. Oh! Blessed Saviour."

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