![]() ![]() ![]() Amos Towne by Walter Goodwin Davis also gets this right, listing William's parents as John and Elizabeth Towne. Interestingly, the 1927 book The Ancestry of Lieut. The emigrant William Towne was the son of John Towne and Elizabeth Clarke of Yarmouth. However, later research has shown conclusively that while Richard Towne of Braceby did have a son named William, he was not the William Towne who married Joanna Blessing and later emigrated to New England. Towne, which says he "may have been the son of Richard and Ann Towne of Braceby." The same information is repeated in the 1901 book The Descendants of William Towne by Edwin Eugene Towne, where William is called the "supposed son of Richard Towne, of Braceby, England." 6, 7 This information apparently originated in an 1866 article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register by William B. Many people, especially in on-line web sites, erroneously state that William Towne's parents were Richard Towne and Ann Denton. ![]()
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